Would you hike 20 miles to visit a pub?

No. But I might catch a cab there and get them to come and get me at a specific town.

We went all over Ireland trying to find pubs, but the pub life is no more since they have satellite television to keep everyone at home. The pubs are now sports bars with 8 guys sitting around watching "football."

Might be the Old Forge(t) after one too many Skye Golds...
I have done the hike, only just yesterday an older guy has been found by mountain rescue after been missing days doing the route.
Sounds like he got his Glen Peans ( notably rough going) and Glendessary mixed up.

If it's a scenic walk followed by excellent ale and good food, then why not?

Imagine the disappointment of schlepping for twenty miles only to find Labatt Blue, Budweiser and Coors Light on tap.

Awfully good luck getting a cab...
That said Tom Mcleans whale is seaworthy and sailed to Fort William in last couple if weeks from his home just across the loch from the Old Forge.
I spent a night on Moby last year after shearing sheep.( yes ,that's quite a sentence)
Fine place Knoydart

The former owner of the pub had royally fell out with the community,quite a few tales about that.

Sadly I have never been physically fit enough to do that walk, not since I was aged 14 anyway.

I'm not even allowed to wear proper walking boots, even if I was so foolhardy as to try which totally rules that epic walk out for me.

So for me the cheat way in has to be the mail/supply boat from Mallaig.

I could I believe manage Morar to Tarbet (Knoydart)- the even more remote call of the mail boat further along Loch Nevis.

I could do the walk but it would probably take me a week to get there. :-) I like the idea of the boat as well!

Ha ha, richard —just saw my typo. Fixing it now.

Not often I get a full sentence out without a typo.Mine generally not as funny as yours

Stuart, a few years ago Mrs A and I took that hike along Loch Morar. However, we cheated. We took a taxi from Mallaig to Bracorina, where the walk actually starts. It's a good low level hike, but I wouldn't recommend it after a heavy rain, as it can get pretty muddy. We made good time (for us!) from Bracorina to Tarbet, and had plenty of time before the Western Isles boat came by.

The boat trip back to Mallaig inspired us for a stay on Knoydart on our next time over.

Mike (Auchterless)

Did you meet Norman at Tarbet as the Western Isles boat can't get in ,he picked us up about a quarter mile out in the estate rib.
We camped by the church,its a fine spot

My brother and a friend tried this over two days but failed - didn’t quite get there, camped overnight and retreated the following day. They were beaten back by bad weather, but they were trying to do it in Scottish summertime, so what can you expect?!!

It does tend to the damp the Rough Bounds of Knoydart ,think average rainfall is up at 10 feet or so..
I felt had my share ( and someone elses) this August

Hi, Richard,

I think that we were there in the post-Norman days. The Western Isles was towing a small boat with an outboard. They sent that in to the pier to pick us up, along with two women and their golden retrievers. Watching the dogs being lifted over the side of the Western Isles was a laugh!

Our trip to Inverie on our next holiday was an adventure. We were really thankful that we had brought our midge hats! We hiked a good bit - both toward Barrisdale and toward Airor. Remembering the Hamish Imlach song about the Seven Men of Knoydart, we gave a two finger salute to Lord Brocket's house.

Returning from Inverie was another adventure. The Western Isles was running late due to a gale, and I had booked us on the last ferry to Armadale. We hopped on the school boat returning to Mallaig, and my goodness did it fly across Loch Nevis! The deck was awash, and we were very thankful that we were wearing rain gear! We made it back to Mallaig just in time to catch the ferry to Skye. It was the MV Lochinvar, which has an open car deck. By the time we reached Armadale, our blue car had nearly turned white from sea spray.

Great memories!

Mike (Auchterless)

Hmm. This hike is out of my comfort zone.

Do any of you follow Ruth Aisling? She is a travel blogger with many YouTube videos and I recently enjoyed this one of her trip to Knoydart.. hope you like it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5izMcxMzcc

Yes, I follow Ruth.

Funny enough ,when she was at Morar Highland Games last year,I am lurking in my hi viz jacket as she filmed the fine MaAD band.
Small world the west coast
Aye it was Norman I helped clip the sheep with last year.
Frank you may be thinking off, he used to live in the Church ,I never met him but sounds like a character from a tv series,there's a bit of stuff online about him.
For those that have not been.Tarbet amounts to the Estate house,private church and two workers houses.

You could work up quite a thirst, getting there. But then you’ve gotta get back home (or to your next destination), which would seem to be quite a ways away. Conceivably a 40 mile trek for an out-and-back drink? That’s a long-a-way to go. Might need an extra Scotch egg or two for the onward journey.

This would seem to be a natural place to offer rooms for the night, if the operator was up for that. Or are they open all night, and there’s no “Time!” called, and folks can curl up by the pool table?

How do the casks/kegs of ales (and Coors Light, which is now called simply “Coors” in Britain, even if it’s not Coors Banquet) get delivered there?

@cyn - the ale, like everything else arrives on the mail/supply/passenger trip boat from Mallaig. It is quite something seeing everything manually handled on and off the boat during its short layover at the pier.
When I say everything that includes trash which is loaded onto the boat for back haulage TO Mallaig, as are the empty kegs
If they need something like a car or building materials which can't be fitted in to the passenger boat a freight vessel is chartered from Mal!aig.o