{"id":1224,"date":"2015-05-08T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T09:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aweewalk.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2018-04-17T23:59:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T23:59:39","slug":"the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aweewalk.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"The start"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Queen Street Station in Glasgow you can identify fellow Challengers. \u00a0They’re the ones wearing no cotton waiting for northbound trains with brick-dense backpacks at their feet, the smaller the better. \u00a0Size matters in this business.<\/p>\n

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I took the train to Inverness, then changed for Strathcarron, a rail stop where you can’t even buy a ticket and where a post office truck comes by twice a week to sell stamps and pick up packages.<\/p>\n

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There is a village nearby, but I didn’t have to go there because there is a hotel next to the railroad tracks. \u00a0Next to it is a single street with blocks of houses, some of them empty.<\/p>\n

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It was drizzly and cool. \u00a0But this morning, the starting day, it’s sunny. \u00a0But not likely to stay that way for long.<\/p>\n

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Here is the route profile of the first day of the hike.<\/p>\n

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Day 1<\/p><\/div>\n

I have an hour to do the final cull and have a small package of rejected items ready for the mail person when he or she shows up at 11. I’ll collect it in Montrose, the terminus, in two weeks, God willing.<\/p>\n

Then it’s time (as they say) to crack on.<\/p>\n

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