Cape Wrath Trail: bog trotting to Sourlies

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Blissful Hiker continues on Scotland's difficult Cape Wrath Trail realizing mileage means nothing when the vague trail is filled with bog, tussock, flood and rock.

In this episode:

1. Rain sounds worse on the metal roof of Corryhully bothy, but how nice it is to be packing up inside where it's dry and one can stand. 
2. It's relatively easy walking up to the bealach where a gate sits all by itself sans any fence, but then straight into hard-to-walk bog and steep rock. 
3. It's important to cross to the right side of the river as soon as it's doable to avoid a difficult ford with water up to the armpits. 
4. Things become easier into the forestry of trees from the Pacific Northwest before the trail leads steeply up where she walks right past A'Chuil bothy.
5. It turns out to be a worthy mistake because there's time to continue through tough terrain, up and over to Loch Nevis, with one of the most extraordinary overlooks ever. 
6. Going down is slow, often needing to use hands, until passing ruins near a tri-toned seaweed covered beach to Sourlies bothy.
7. Two hikers are there and we offer tea right away and everyone falls asleep to roaring deer. 

MUSIC: Poema del Pastor Coya by Angel Lasala and Chiquilin de Bachin by Astor Piazzolla as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano

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