UPDATE:

*- Postponed due to weather -*

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

In November 2014, my good friend Luke Ireland passed away from hypothermia when the weather changed very suddenly and drastically as he was out running in the mountains around Glen Clova. Alongside fellow Marines, volunteers from the Scottish Mountain Rescue deployed in large numbers to search tirelessly for Luke and, tragically, bring him off the hill.

The Scottish Mountain Rescue is an institution very close to the hearts of many in the outdoors/hiking/hill running community. It is made up of highly trained volunteers who are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to respond to emergencies in the mountains and remote areas of Scotland, and it relies on donations in order to carry out it's great work.

The above is just one example of the hundreds of call-outs the Scottish Mountain Rescue respond to each year, a truly invaluable service made up completely of volunteers.

For this reason, I will be attempting to run the Cape Wrath Trail (CWT) unsupported over the Easter Weekend to fundraise for the Scottish Mountain Rescue. The CWT is 230ish mile (40,00ft) unmarked trail that runs through many bog and bealach from Fort William to the Cape Wrath lighthouse.

Friends at OpenTracking will be providing real-time tracking of progress: https://live.opentracking.co.uk/parrishoncapewrath26/

You can find out more about the CWT here: https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/cape-wrath-trail.shtml

I will be attempting the Fastest Known Time (FKT), you can find more about that here: https://fastestknowntime.com/route/cape-wrath-trail-united-kingdom

What 'unsupported' means here (when you scroll down): https://fastestknowntime.com/guidelines

Thank you for reading,

David