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WMB100 Fort William, Scotland_Intermediate (Red) Route

Start/Finish: The North Face car park, GR NN145764 Total distance: 14km (8.7 miles) Height gain: 619m (2023 feet) Time: 2-3 hours Maps required: OS Landranger OL41, Ben Nevis, Fort William and Glen Coe. Route summary: One for the climbers in your group — takes you up to the high crags of Ben Nevis for a real mountain feel. Lots of technical singletrack in a spectacular location. Leave the North Face car park on the track heading southeast, crossing the river. Follow this for a short time before taking the narrow track on the right, climbing steeply. At the next crossroads take a left on the ‘puggy line’ (light railway) track. Follow this for 450m then take a sharp right onto more singletrack. This switchbacks up to meet another track, where you turn left. Follow it to a T-junction, where you turn right. This takes you all the way to the mountaineer’s footpath. Follow the excellent singletrack southeast into the corrie ahead. The trail pops over frequent water bars here, so practise your rear wheel hops! Keep climbing up the trail up to the foot of the crags. Just short of the CIC Hut the trail deteriorates so you might want to turn round here. Alternatively push your bike up for lunch by the hut. (It’s a private Scottish Mountaineering Club hut and will be locked.) Turn back and reap the rewards as you descend down to the track. Carry on past the original track you arrived on and take the next left. Follow the track left as it contours round the hill heading south-west, then take a right onto the track descending steeply down the hillside. When you reach the track junction at the bottom by the pylons, turn right and you’re back on the ‘puggy line’ — after 1.5km you’ll see the singletrack you climbed up on your left. Follow this back to the car park and a well-earned cuppa.by ocoutts