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West Highland Way Winter Hiking record 2 Days

West Highland Way Winter Hiking record 2 Days


Postby completist6503 » Thu Nov 21, 2019 9:45 pm

Route description: West Highland Way

Date walked: 18/11/2019

Time taken: 2 days

Distance: 155 km

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Description of my route.

Stats -WHW Winter HIKING RECORD
SOLO ,UNSUPPORTED.
Pack weight 10 kg. My weight 68 kg
1 to 7 Ratio
Start -Fort William 00.00 hrs.
Kings house. 13.00 hrs. 23miles
Tyndrum. 21.00hrs. 43 miles
Balmaha. 41 .00hrs. 79 miles
Milingavie. 52 .00hrs. 96 miles.

Conditions -. Evening tempretures maintained beetween -8 to - 10 untill Balmaha rising to 0 with Rain on Ice. Daytime high 8.

This route I took on as a continues exspidition hiking route Bivvying out using power snoozes when required.covering long distance in a short timeframe to take the fastest recorded time by 17 hours.

From The Bonhill Mountaineer
Ian Simpson Munro completist 6503.
UK 3000ers Completist.
Lomond & Trossachs National Park
Munro record FKT holder for hitting all it's summit cairns within its boundary in 5 consecutive days
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Layerd up after power snoozes -8
Last edited by completist6503 on Thu Dec 10, 2020 6:37 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: West Highland Way Winter Hiking record 2 Days

Postby Sgurr » Thu Nov 21, 2019 11:44 pm

That's a walk (?run) and a half. Now I am in my 80s I might have a go at the longest able-bodied completion of the WHH, but I don't suppose any one would be impressed.
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Re: West Highland Way Winter Hiking record 2 Days

Postby gaffr » Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:03 am

Hello....a busy six days. S-N and then N-S within these few days. :-)
Well I guess it is one way of avoiding the price of a train or bus ticket. :-)
Was N-S more than just semi-winter conditions.
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Re: West Highland Way Winter Hiking record 2 Days

Postby completist6503 » Thu Dec 10, 2020 6:33 am

-10 in Nov is the same as -10 in Dec,Jan,Feb,Mar,&Apr,💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧
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