If you’re walking from Lands End to John O’Groats, there used to come a point where you walked off the map. The walkers trails that had snaked you through the quantocks, pennines and pentlands simply stopped at Inverness. The maps often simply cut off. And the only route North was walking along the hard shoulder of the main roads.

This, realised a hardy and committed group of walkers from the Far North, would not do. They set about establishing a walkers trail from Inverness to John O’Groats through the stunning landscape of Easter Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness.

Jay Wilson, the Chair of the charity working to establish this John O’Groats trail talks about what goes into making a trail along the clifftops, what he gets out of long distance walking, and what brought him from his home town on the Appalachian trail to Inverness, Berriedale, and ultimately, John O’Groats.

Meanwhile, Pete and Matt wonder where one can wander in Scotland. And Matt gets needlessly scatological in his research.