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Great walk, though.

Yes. I did a lot of growing-up on it.

Couldn't agree more. Each of our teen lads in turn hiked the first
"Highland Way" leg of your trek (a mere 90 miles) as a sort of solo
rite of passage.

I set myself a task - buy no food for as long as possible. I managed a
fortnight - fishing for brown trout, I usually caught eels, but fried
eel is rather good - if you can bear to see it wriggling once you've
decapitated it, and wriggling after you've skinned it, and the segments
twitching as you drop them in the pan...

I found a knocked-down but unsquished brown hare, raspberries in plenty,
crowberries, blaeberries and cranberries, and I knew a lot of the edible
fungi I found. I found a lot more which I now know to be edible, but one
doesn't take chances there...

After a forninght of something akin to the Atkins' Diet (Atkins?
Adkins?), fish, flesh and fruit, with some wild vegetables, I succumbed,
and scoffed a hot pie and a packet of digestives. It was all downhill
from then onwards...

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