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William. Fort around forests the to B8004 West Highlands West Highlands West Overview map 1 Cow Hill and Braveheart trails Choose your perfect walk or bike ride from the six trails starting from Braveheart car park. Whether you’d like to take it easy, immerse yourself in the feel of the forest or climb higher for stunning views, you can do it all from here. The Braveheart Car Park is approximately 2 miles from the centre of Fort William, on the right as you come into Glen Nevis. 2 River Lundy trail 3 Allt a’ Mhuilinn (say: Allt-a-voolin) Take a trip out to Nevis Range Mountain Resort Travel a few miles out of Fort William to the Glenfinnan Spean A830 A82 for the River Lundy trail, which starts beside the ‘North Face’1 car park at Torlundy forB8004 a short Bridge ‘High Wire’ adventure base. This lovely forest trail but steep trail with amazing views of the LOCH EIL FORT takes you through peaceful woodland on quiet imposing cliffs on Ben Nevis’s north WILLIAMface. forest roads and well-formed paths. A861 BEN AONOCH NEVIS MOR A82 LINNHE Corran 2 4 Achriabhach (say: Acch-ree-u-vuch) Inchree B863 Kinlochleven A861 3 Glencoe LOCH A82 Get a taste of hill walking and a feel of the mountains A828 on this steep trail that climbs up a track alongside the beautiful waterfall (Allt a’ Choire Dheirg) cascading over large stone slabs in the gorge. On the way you’ll find fantastic views of the mountains at the top of Glen Nevis... and a seat! Photo Lisa Wharton Meall an t-Suidhe (Myowl-un-too-yuh, pronounced locally as Give Gaelic a go! ‘Mel-ann- tee’). Hill of the seat (this is said to be because it looks like the seat of a chair with Ben Nevis as the backrest.) Many of the mountains around Lochaber have Gaelic Stob Bàn (Stop Bah-un) names. Gaelic was widely spoken in this area and the - Fair or white hill. From a names of the hills and places are very descriptive. distance the shining silvery quartz and schist peak at The most famous of all, Ben Nevis, is called ‘Beinn the top of Glen Nevis looks Nibheis’, which is thought to mean “the terrible or Stob Bàn white like snow. Photo Jamie Hageman poisonous mountain”. Could this be because it’s so dangerous in bad weather? No one knows for sure and Am Bodach (Am bot-uch) – the old man the mountain is widely known simply as ‘THE Ben’. An Gearanach (An gerranach) – the complainer 0 5km 10km 0 5miles Words from the woods Braveheart and Cow Hill trails Gaelic language is closely connected to nature. The 18 Scaleletters 1:33000 of the Gaelic alphabet were originally linked with Braveheart car park is the starting point for Insettrees Scale and 1:4545 shrubs in Gaelic culture. The woodlands on Cow Hill include native trees like alder, willow and birch – many of the best woodland trails around all of which are linked with letters. F with fearn (alder), ‘F’ for fearn B with beith (birch) and S with suil (willow). Fort William, including the Cow Hill circuit. (alder leaves) Cow Hill circuit 6.5 km / 4 miles, allow 2 hours 15 minutes Cow Hill has always been important to the people of Fort William. Spectacular views from Cow Hill summit Once used mostly for grazing cattle and cutting peat, it’s now a popular spot for walking, biking and enjoying the fantastic views. Why Braveheart? Take the track from Braveheart car park marked ‘Town Centre’ to follow the Cow Hill circuit track. This takes you around the Braveheart car park is named after the hill above Fort William and back into Glen Nevis, with options to 1995 filmBraveheart that was partly filmed branch off along the way. The woodlands here include native in the glen. The car park was made for trees like alder, willow and birch, and are home to pine martens, the film vehicles. The film told the story of roe deer and red squirrels. Please be aware that this track William Wallace and his fight for Scottish is also used by mountain bikers so take care, especially in independence in the late 13th century. places where you can’t see far ahead. As you carry on, there are lovely views out over Fort William and Loch Linnhe. The circuit joins onto the Peat Track as it turns back Wishing Stone trail towards Glen Nevis. This track was traditionally used by local 2.2 km / 1.4 miles, allow 45 minutes crofters when they cut slabs of peat from the hillside to dry and Follow the pond trail then turn left at Powerline use as winter fuel. Follow the Peat Track back into the glen - this the small bridge for a short detour through part of the trail gives the best views of Ben Nevis. Turn left at the the trees to see the famous ‘wishing stone’. junction to join the Cow Hill summit trail or follow the track over This huge boulder is part of the glen’s ice-age past.