Day 1 Ardnamurchan Point to Sanna
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Thursday 11th May 18km 130m ascent
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| Thursday morning 5am and I'm waterproofing my Paramo jacket, what else have I forgotten to do? I still had 7½ hours on the bus to think about it before setting off.The last part of the journey from Fort William to Kilchoan was very pleasant with a Van Morrisson CD playing and an excellent driver (Gordon) helping people on and off and delivering everything from holidaymaker's vegetables to Challengers lost tent poles (no names!).
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| The hazy sun and no wind made the road walk to the point warm going and a quick Guinness break at the Sonachan Hotel was very welcome. This was the first time I had carried a full pack since the end of last year, events had prevented my planned pre-Challenge trek, and it took the first two days to settle into it.
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Ardnamurchan is not actually the most westerly point, it is Corrachadh Mor 1½km further south, but I chose to ignore this as I scrambled down the rocks to wet the boots in the Atlantic below the lighthouse before turning round for the start of the trip east.
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Picking my way through caravans, houses, bogs and hills I roughly followed the coast through Portuairk and Sanna and up to the outer rim of the old volcano where I found a suitable pitch, with cuckoo, below Meall Eigin-aig.
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