The West Highland Way is the 96-mile long-distance footpath that runs from Milngavie, on the northern edge of Glasgow, to An Aird in Fort William. It is Scotland's first official long-distance path, opened in 1980, and remains by some distance the most-walked. The route follows the eastern shore of Loch Lomond, crosses the empty Rannoch Moor, climbs the Devil's Staircase out of Glen Coe, and finishes through Kinlochleven and the Lairigmor pass into Fort William.
Most walkers take six or seven days. The finish point — a low cairn beside the Shinty pitch at An Aird — has been a focus for a touching little ritual of arrivals: dozens of people slumping onto it each summer evening, peeling off boots and posing for the camera.