Editor’s note: Mark Lorenzoni is writing about his eight-day hike on the West Highland Way, a 96-mile path that runs along the lochs and Highlands of Scotland. Lorenzoni completed the hike with his ...

Editor’s note: This is the eighth and final story in Mark Lorenzoni’s series on his eight-day hike on the West Highland Way, a 96-mile path that runs along the lochs and Highlands of Scotland.

I first heard about the West Highland Way, Scotland’s first official long distance hiking route, in the mid 1990s, but it took me nearly 30 years to walk it. Growing up in Glasgow, I started doing ...