Editor’s note:Mark Lorenzoni is writing about his eight-day hike on the West Highland Way, a 96-mile path that runs along the lochs and Highlands of Scotland. Lorenzoni completed the hike with ...

Spanning 79 miles between Drymen and Pitlochry, the trail follows in the footsteps of legendary Scottish outlaw Rob Roy ...

E ditor’s note: Over the next several Saturdays, Mark Lorenzoni will be writing about his eight-day hike on the West Highland Way, a 96-mile path that runs along the lochs and Highlands of Scotland.

I’d packed minimally for the nine-day hike, but still had to get used to the extra 15kg on my back. Friendly cows licked the sweat off my hands along the way and I gloried in the blooming hedgerows.