#altnabreac

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Good grief what a day to remember. An early train from Forsinard to the remote, request-only stop at Altnabreac....and then, under sunny skies with hardly any wind at all, walking 15 miles across Europe's largest blanket bog back to Forsinard. Not actually across the bog, mind, but along the dirt tracks that snake their way around the lochans and pools ;-)

It wasn't my first visit to this corner of the world but even so, there was still a lot of this today. Standing, staring, spinning around 360 to take it all in. Flow Country is, quite simply, on a scale unlike anything else in the UK.

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Oh man, this was such a great walk. I got the train from Forsinard to Altnabreac, and then walked ten miles back across the bog. If you're after an adrenaline fix of soaring peaks, gnarly ridges and yawning chasms.....then move on. Flow Country isn't like that. This is Europe's largest blanket bog, so if you like massive skies, peat, moss, flatness, and a sense of dislocation unlike anywhere else in Scotland.....then it might be more your thing.

I think this has probably ended up being my favourite of any vlog I've shot.....but yep, that does mean it's a long one. Even by my standards! I make no apology for that, because there's loooooooads to say about the place and it deserves full-on maxed-out uber-blethering in order to convey the stark grandeur of the place. You have been warned ;-)