Help us support Maggie’s as we trek 45 miles across Rannoch Moor!

2019 is a special year for Sir Robert McAlpine as we celebrate the 150th anniversary.
As part of the celebrations, we are taking part in a trek across Rannoch Moor in the Scottish Highlands to retrace the route taken by Robert McAlpine during an 1889 expedition to survey the course of the proposed West Highland Railway.
The original journey has gone down in company folklore… we’re hoping ours will be slightly less eventful!

The trek takes place along a route from Rannoch Moor to Loch Tulla, covering 45 miles over 2 days (18 miles on the first day, and 27 miles on the second).

We will be walking on 10th & 11th May, the first of 3 weekends of
walkers.

The route runs through very variable and scenic country, crossing the vast, legendary and lonely Rannoch Moor from north to south. Walkers will wind their way along old drovers’ trails, paths, high passes, some old stone tracks and sections of open moor, including a river crossing. 

Peat hags and boggy sections of ground and umpteen small streams and other minor obstacles will be negotiated on the way; not forgetting, of course, whatever the weather may bring on the 400-500m high moor!

The trek will also provide the opportunity to visit places few others go and passes the old lodge at Loch Treig where the 1889 group stayed on their first night, as well as the cottage where many of those rescued from the moor were taken.

All funds raised will go directly to Maggie’s.

Thank you in advance for your support. If you sponsor us, it means we have to finish it, right?!

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