West Highland Way: Crianlarich to Tyndrum
Our view
If staying in Crianlarich, there's a choice of paths out of the village . A very small one runs up from A82 at the western edge of the village, to emerge in the mildly cragged Bogle Glen just below the signpost on the West Highland Way. The Bogle or bogeyman (a 'tattie bogle' or 'potato monster' is a scarecrow) presumably lives in the tiny crag above the glen – which has currently no stream, and has to be a meltwater channel formed when rivers ran all over the place as the glaciers melted.
For those nervous of the bogeyman, the easier path starts opposite Crianlarich's railway station, from where it is waymarked as it dives under the new bypass into the forest. This plantation and the West Highland Way arrived here more or less together, so the path was created as the planting took place.
From the signpost near the edge of the trees (where the West Highland Way arrives from the south) the path runs up above Bogle Glen, with a good variety of tree species and enough breaks to enjoy the views.
The path crosses two burns by stout footbridges and becomes a small, gravel forest road. With the A82 heard below, turn left on a smaller path. It soon runs down beside a lively stream and under the railway line (the Oban branch) to the A82.
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