Just back, so sorry for not replying sooner.
Great read and I must say you took a lot more pictures than me, I only took 2 on the first 5 days! one of Loch Ness...sadly no monster
and one of of the floating pub at Laggen Lochs, definitely no great sunsets to be seen, so you never missed much there, and you win hands down with the rainbow shot. Took loads on my last day, but that's only because I went via Carn Mor Dearg & Ben Nevis.
It was great keeping in touch with each other as we plodded on on our respected LD walks, and we did have some great banter, but it was very worrying when the WMV incident was taking place, hopefully the texts helped ease your worries a little.
One text later in the week I remember that amused me, went something like this....
Me/ I'm walking from Spean Bridge to the the north face car park, then over CMD (Carn Mor Dearg) & Ben Nevis.
You/ Yep, that's the way I went
Me/ yes being chased by WVM
There were lots more like that
The last headlines we saw as we left the Highlands in the Local paper was "Soup selling sales man in White Van arrested for wearing a pink bra!"
This could have been followed by "Mountainstar has cup of tea in the Clachaig!"
Thanks for not mentioning that last detail, could have been a bit embarrassing, if you had not mentioned the fact that it was a Sunday, and the bar could not serve alcohol when we were there.