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Hi, I'm looking for some inspiration for a long distance walk but rather than walking the glens I'd like to embark on a long distance walk/enchainment of summits. 
Initially, I was considering walking the GR5 from Geneva to Nice but on reflection I'd like to adventure closer to home.
Potentially a four week trip and mostly camping with the odd night in a hostel or BnB. Possibly starting in Oban, over to Mull then continue up the west coast.
If anyone has completed such a route or is aware of such a journey, any info would be greatly received

TIA 
Rick

I’d suggest getting hold of (1) Hamish’s Mountain Walk - Hamish Browns story of a continuous journey over all the Munros - 276 of them at the time I think. (2) Martin Moran’s “the Munros in winter” (same idea but using a motor home and in winter obvs.)

Probably a few other sources of inspiration as it’s now become a bit of a thing. You won’t do it all in a month (unless you know different👀) but lots of ideas for linking different bits up.

hell of a journey by mike cawthorne could also provide some inspiration.

You could look at doing part of the north-south watershed (other watersheds are available!). There are a few books about it: 

Dave Hewitt: Walking the Watershed 

Peter Wright: Ribbon of Wildness

Chris Townsend: Along the Divide 

Yes, read that quite a few years ago

Thanks Colin I’ve read both of these a long time ago

Have you looked at the Cape Wrath Trail?

That's a load of rubbish, and is ancient history; I wouldn't bother with that one. 

Hamish's Munros book is the best of that type. I liked the Cawthorne too.

The film Hooks (basically, a bloke walking around every bothy in a continuous circuit) might have some inspiration as well:
youtube.com/watch?v=yesqy-8gIYY&

I'm jealous of the opportunity! Personally I'd either head up from Fort William, roughly following the West Coast, stopping in Knoydart, Glen Shiel, Glen Carron, Torridon, Kinlochewe, Ullapool etc, or try to work out some sort of Island hopping route to take in as many of the inner and outer Hebrides as possible. Or both!

Yes, but I'd rather stay high and link summits

Yes Dave, I'm considering this itinerary.

Starting from the Corran ferry and continue as far north and west as poss

I've just realised there's a high level version of the cape wrath trail!

Yes, but remember the CWT is the NC500 of the backpacking world so the more you do anyway from it with your own ideas the better.

My high 'version' of the CWT went over several mountains on the way

1. Geal Charn
2. Am Bathach
3. Sgurr Gaorsaic
4. Faochaig
5. Ben Dronaig
6. Sgurr nan Lochain Uaine
7. Sgurr Dubh
8. Creag Rainich
9. Beinn Enaglair
10. Iorguill
11. Beinn Dearg
12. Meall nan Ceapraichean
13. Eidich nCG
14. Breabag
15. Glas Bheinn
16. Foinaven

Other gnarly 30day route would be the Iona to Cape Wrath one followed by this guy https://youtu.be/CFpMSgvyIPs?si=7QdJR-EjkFYLAMVo&t=20 

How many days Jack?

My route took 16days walking, but was over a few years in blocks of 2-3. If doing it in a oner, I'd factor in a couple of rest/contingency days. Although it starts in FW and ends at CW, it was very much my own route, didn't follow much of the 'popular' route at all and that's part of the appeal. 

Looks like you have lots of suggestions for actual routes from books and people a lot more knowledgeable than me but I would add a +1 to that idea of building in a couple of off days. If you are walking for a month, there will be at least a few days where it's very windy on the tops/ridges. You might just be able to push through it if there isn't any serious fall potential from being blown over but equally, it might make for a knackering day where you can only get a comparatively short distance done.

For context, on the West coast at sea level, it was gusting more than 30mph on half of the days in June this year. And it was 50mph or more on 6 days out of the month.

On the summits and ridges, you can likely add at least 10mph (or perhaps 20?) to these wind speeds.

And if you were thinking of going any time outside the April to Sept window, definitely add a lot more windy days on top of the above stats.

Walking in 30mph is probably fine, though more tiring than normal, but anything above about 50mph is going to be a real struggle and pretty unsafe on knife-edge aretes and summits with steep cliffs.

In the end, it might depend on how short and fat you are. If you are 5'2" and at least 250 pounds, maybe you can push it to higher wind speeds.