Cape Wrath Trail

Cape to Glen is an unforgettable journey through some of the most remote, rugged and spectacular landscapes in the United Kingdom.

Following the legendary Cape Wrath Trail, this is an adventure that will test your endurance, reward your determination and immerse you in the untamed beauty of the Scottish Highlands.

No, because I wouldn't do it right, as you will learn in this podcast.

I was thinking, this is amazing.

This is amazing, Eddie.

This week, we chat to the race directors of the new Cape to Glen, Debs and Chris.

It's a totally new concept, as instead of the Cape Wrath Trail, which we know from the rear events which started from the south and ran to the north, this starts at the north, runs to the south, and plot twist, it's continuous.

Once you start, you've got 150 hours to get you and your little leggies... and perhaps a partner to the Glenfinnan Viaduct.

So I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and do something completely different.

And I have a habit of creating a big, silly, seemingly impossible goal, which to me was, I'm going to hike the hardest trail in the UK, the Cape Wrath Trail.

And then I was looking at this thinking, okay, that's all, that's great.

I want to do that, but how do I get to that point? So I basically worked backwards from it and made a list, breaking it down into the tiniest possible steps that I could take to get to the Cape Wrath.

But it was quite recently, a couple of years ago, and I was hiking in Scotland.

We were walking the Cape Wrath Trail, which is quite a tough old hike.

And we'd been walking, it was three weeks of walking, and we'd gone a bit feral.

You know, you sort of sleep, wild camp, sleep in bothies, you know, you're a little bit, sort of the beard's a bit raggedy, and my hair had got very raggedy, and And I was cooking up something over a fire one night and a strand of hair flew into the fire.

And, uh, they kind of meet up and they're decided to walk about 600 kilometers, that's about 330 miles, through, uh, Scotland.

So they do the West Highland Way, and then after that, the, the Cape Wrath Trail.

Um, and the reason I wanted to go there is I'm, I'm, I, I really like going outdoors and, uh, it's all based on, I think about eight or nine years ago, me and a friend, we went to New Zealand together, and where we walked about 3,000 kilometers, uh, in four and a half months.

And that was the first time that we'd done anything like that.

Can, can you talk about that? Was that on your mind at all?

Well, I think there's one thing that's quite interesting with the... and, and, and, um, with the having the freedom to be out in nature, but also just following a trail that is very specific and set, where you're not gonna get off, you know? So it is this, it's this giant contradiction of freedom because the path is, is very tight, and that's the path.

Um, and then the interesting thing about the Cape Wrath Trail, so the second part of trail, is that there are sometimes no paths.

It's just you're standing here, you have to get over that mountain.