If you take a boat for a ride along the coastline of the beautiful Mediterranean island Majorca, you’ll find that one its most mysterious and sometimes iconic features are the watchtowers, like the Talaia de Son Jaumell. Last fall, I had the opportunity to hike to one of those towers myself. The Talaia de Son Jaumell is situated the Es Telégraf, approximately 271 meters above the sea. On the way up, I occasionally stopped and took a couple of photos all of which I share in this post.
Join me on this first leg of my walk along the West Highland Way, as I start out in Fort William, walk through Nevis Forest in Glen Nevis where I tackle my first ascent of about 250m before I bypass Dún Deardail, an old fortress. Then I reach the lovely lake called Lohan Lùnn Dà-Bhrà and from there head south along the Old Military Road which takes me westward around Meall a’ Chaorainn, in impressive mountain of 910 meters, into Lairigmór, the great pass with the picturesque ruin of Tigh-na-sleubhaich, bypassing several mountaintops before it finally goes down again into the valley of Kinlochleven. All in all the Way spans 24.5km on this leg and also features a combined ascent of 1130 meters. Not too shabby for a first day.
