After the heartiest of breakfasts at Edencoille, Drew got the Discovery out and ran us back along Loch Leven to the main road, then up Glencoe again to The King's House Hotel, where, at 1010ish we picked up where we left off yesterday. Three-quarters of an hour's walking parallel to the A82 got us to Altnafeadh, where the path turns sharply up The Devil's Staircase to the highest point on the West Highland Way.
The climb was quite tricky in parts, either where the snow had obliterated the path, so that we lost the line, or where feet had polished the snow into an icy slide. Over the top, on the Kinlochleven side the main problem was again trying to pick the best line through the deeper sections of snow. The wind was favourable, hardly blowing at all, so wind-chill was not an issue, and, as soon as we began to descend past the HE Plant, the melt was already considerable. The time taken to get to the village from having first seen it from on high was just as frustrating as we remembered it from last September, an absolute age!
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