About a mile up from the trail, we stayed at a remote farmhouse originally built in 1719 by the Duke of Montrose. It housed English soldiers to fight the Jacobite rising and the infamous Rob Roy MacGregor whose deeds were later turned into folk legend by Sir Walter Scott. The farm was expertly rebuilt from an old sheeping station by a delightful couple who introduced us to all their friends: two Highlander hiefers, a boar and sow, and four little pigs, sheep and their ewes, the pet Canada goose, a cranky rooster, and various free range hens with the run of the place. The West Highland Way proceeds north along a bucolic stretch beside Loch Lomond. 
