Nine travellers. One guide who has been forty times.
We move north with the light, not against it. Half the days are spent on water and half on foot, and the itinerary below is the one we actually follow — weather permitting, which it frequently does not.
A slow first day on purpose. Boat transfer at dusk, then two nights at the harbour house while the group finds its rhythm.
Three days among low islands, landing where the swell allows. Seal colonies, an abandoned light station, and the best cooking of the trip.
The walk everyone remembers. Nine hours up, a night in a stone hut, and a descent through cloud the following morning.
Four days running north until the chart stops being useful. We turn around when the guide says so, not when the schedule does.
Unedited entries from last season, published because they are more useful than a brochure.
We had planned the outer landing for this morning and spent forty minutes arguing with the sea about it before giving up. Instead we took the sheltered channel and found the light station nobody had mentioned to us — three roofless buildings and a brass mechanism still turning in the wind.
“The trip you planned is rarely the trip worth having. Bring a second idea.”
Longest day of the itinerary and the one people write to us about a year later. Two of the group turned back at the saddle, which is a sound decision and not a failure — the boat met them at the lower landing within the hour.
Turned south at 71°04′ with clear water still ahead of us. The group wanted to push on. The forecast said otherwise and the forecast was right by the following afternoon.
“We have never regretted turning around early. Not once in eleven seasons.”
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Places are held for fourteen days without payment while we talk through fitness, weather windows and whether the journey is genuinely right for you. Sometimes the answer is that it is not.
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