I think my record, at least so far, is walking for four days in the Highlands in winter without meeting anyone. Not bad for an island that people generally consider as rather densely populated.
Yes... a flat density statistic is fairly useless to describe somewhere like Britain, although perhaps it is a weak proxy for relative density, because most places will have density variations.
p.s. did you just walk around in a circle, though?
It was a fairly devious route from Achnashellach to Ullapool stopping for a few nights at the utterly gorgeous Lochan Fada so I could climb the surrounding mountains then up to Ullapool.
It was early April, bitterly cold and very deep snow. Usually those mountains are pretty busy - but I had the whole area to myself.
