Day 12, Saturday 18th July Inverness to Tomatin
Rained all night. My legs were itching so much that I couldn't get to sleep so tried just using the liner and wrapping my shoulders in the sleeping bag. Woke at 4am, cold! However got back into the bag and slept until nearly 8am. It was still raining, but not so hard.
It took about an hour to get to the roundabout where I picked up General Wades Military Road - more like General Wades Military stream - the track is very overgrown with grasses up to my knees and shrubbery up to my shoulders. It took about 2 hours to get where the track crosses the B9154. The going was much easier then, being through a forest. The track runs parallel to the A9. Somewhere along the line I took a wrong turn and found myself on the A9. I back tracked for about 15 mins and found the correct path again only to halted by a raging torrent! Usually this is a stream, but no way I could tackle the torrent! So I back tracked again to the A9.
I reached the B&B at Tomatin, where I was able to dry out everything and had an excellent evening meal.
Glad that you reached the B&B and get to spend a night inside. I hope you can find something to relieve the itching - cortisone cream or Benedryl??
ReplyDeleteI don't know the names of things across the pond, but there must be something that would give at least some relief.
Hi Pat I am taking loratadine every day until I get out of midge country. I also have antihistamine cream but I think the best approach is to try not getting bitten in the first place. It's a week later now and the bites have calmed down quite a bit just faint scars but no itch.
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