At this point you really know why it is called the Rest and be Thankful, because it goes on and on and up and up. There are some great views of the mountains, only somewhat spoiled by traffic noise from A83. Eventually the path bends to the left and meets the Beinn Donich path near a mobile phone mast. Then it is another forestry track all the way back down Glen Mhor to home.

I enjoyed most of it greatly, though I have to say that the last few miles I was getting a bit footsore. So it was 21.5 miles, 50,000 steps, and the equivalent of climbing 330 flights of stairs. It remains to be seen how my legs will feel tomorrow, but it was a good start towards the ViewRanger ‘Walk 1000 miles in 2016 challenge’ which I am taking part in.

It was a lovely sunny day and I don’t think I have ever seen ‘The Rest’ looking quite so spectacular.

As ever I took some photos with my trusty Lumia 1020. I love taking photos (as is probably apparent), but I couldn’t be bothered with lugging around an enormous DSLR so I have compromised on having the best phone camera in the world (41 mega pixels). It takes wonderful landscape shots and isn’t bad at portraits, indoor shots or even macros. What it is not great for is wildlife photography because the shutter is relatively slow due to the size of the image it has to save. However because of the size of the image you can use software (including on the phone itself) to ‘zoom’ in quite a long way on photos. According to a review I read it is about as good as a big DSLR from five years ago – not bad for a phone! Shame the photographer isn’t as good as the camera.