Fort William
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Oct 30, 2026
Katy KorenHOST
He has two dates left in Scotland.
Katy KorenHOST
So if you're listening to this podcast as it goes live, you can see Rich Hall in Fort William.
Katy KorenHOST
You can see him tonight in Fort William.
Katy KorenHOST
And then there's Kelso, Barnsley, Burton-on-Trent and Stamford coming up as well.
Katy KorenHOST
All of those lovely English towns that we have no idea where they are.
JimHOST
They became accustomed to the young lads playing in out-of-the-way places and began to really appreciate his music.
JimHOST
So one night as he was heading back just before dark to his clacken near Fort William, he was met on the road by an old man in a strange green costume.
JimHOST
Now the young lad realized right off that the fellow was a fairy, but he had heard of how the fairies had helped Pipers in the past, so was intrigued by what the creature wanted to say.
JimHOST
"'Hello, Piper.
Monty MaderHOST
Al's Dare McKeon, the 12th chief of the McDonald's of Glencoe, was about 27 years old, a huge man with a white beard.
Monty MaderHOST
And he waited until the last possible day, the 31st of December, and then rode to Fort William to swear.
Monty MaderHOST
And the governor there told him he wasn't authorized to take the oath and that McKeon would have to go to the sheriff at Invernera.
Monty MaderHOST
60 miles south through the snow in Campbell country.
SarahHOST
He doesn't know who they are, but we know that it's Myrta and Brian that have gone to try to rescue Angus and Dougal.
JessicaHOST
So at Fort William, Dougal is chained up to a post.
JessicaHOST
Obviously, definitely Outlander vibes.
JessicaHOST
It was where Jamie was flogged.
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SarahHOST
So Colm is spiraling a bit, talking to Ned.
SarahHOST
He's like, we have fewer men, less protection and dwindling courage.
SarahHOST
And Ned's like, well, we need to think like, kind of trails off in columns, like, like my father, what would my father do? You know, what do you think he would do? Beat down the door at Fort William? To do what? That would just risk the Redcoats and, you know, he must risk Redcoats at our door here at Leok and we have to think of the clan.
SarahHOST
like they're just kind of like what do we do now it's so at this point
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It is not the largest lake by surface area, it is not the longest, but by volume it is a colossus, a geological container of staggering capacity, and nearly all of that capacity is hidden below a surface you cannot see through.
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The Loch sits in the Great Glen, a geological fault line that cuts Scotland diagonally from the Atlantic coast near Fort William in the southwest to the Moray Firth and the North Sea in the northeast.
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This fault has been active for 400 million years.
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To put that in perspective, 400 million years ago, fish had only recently evolved jaws.
Davi BirksHOST
I've not been to many.
Davi BirksHOST
I've only ever really been to Fort William.
Olly WilkinsHOST
Yeah.
Olly WilkinsHOST
And even then you're exhibiting, weren't you? Yeah.
Mike BullockGUEST
We have, um, decommissioned lighthouses in the past, and actually we've also created new lighthouses.
Mike BullockGUEST
So about five years ago, we put a new lighthouse, uh, on Loch Linnhe to get, um, traffic north, um, going up to Fort William.
Mike BullockGUEST
So we do continue to invest in new lighthouses, but it's a continual cycle, and it depends on the, the needs of the mariner.
Mike BullockGUEST
Um, and so we, we now are lucky 'cause we have AIS trace, so we can actually see where traffic is and what it's doing and so on.
Fiona ScottHOST
The high-end drummer will star Academy Award winner Kenneth Branagh, who is also executive producer.
Fiona ScottHOST
And a devoted volunteer who has cared for the streets of Fort William for 30 years has been named an official High Street Hero.
Fiona ScottHOST
You can read all of these stories and more in this week's Lochaber Times or online at www.westcoasttoday.co.uk. Back to you, Sandy.
Sandy NeillHOST
Thank you very much, Fi.
AmandaHOST
That is so true.
AmandaHOST
No, because right, so I have three sisters and we all recently went away on like, we did the West Highland Way where you walk from Mulgay, which is near Glasgow to Fort William, which is in the Highlands.
AmandaHOST
And my dad and my sister were in different rooms and me and one of my sisters were sharing.
AmandaHOST
And we're the chill ones and they're the like highly strung ones.
WozaGUEST
And the longest race they've done is a 90K, which seems to avoid every single summit in that range.
WozaGUEST
So, I mean, I think you really, you would really have to try quite hard to come up with a 90K route around the Fort William and Loqueba area and only have 2000 meters of climbing.
WozaGUEST
I think lots of people will look at it and go, no, don't get me wrong.
WozaGUEST
It's in a beautiful place and the trails are amazing and it will be a great race.
WozaGUEST
and uh um i think is the other one 68k or something like that the best race is the shortest one not the shortest shortest the um one that's about 40k because that does the cnd and it goes on yeah someone
SamHOST
else said that
WozaGUEST
that that that if i was going to do any of those races that would be the race because you're going up from the um Up from Fort William, up to the kick up, back down, then up the zigzags, over the bend, over the CMD, and then kind of traverse down and up and over Anockmore and down through the ski resort.
WozaGUEST
So that's the race to do if you're going there, if you like that typical Scottish sky running.
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