Book description
A guidebook to 100 graded routes including of the finest mountain
walking in Scotland around Ben Nevis and Glen Coe, on either side of
Loch Leven. This area offers the UK's greatest concentration of really
magnificent mountains. From the Black Mount to the Grey Corries, from
Ben Nevis to Buachaille Etive Mor, this is country for linking high peak
to high peak along sharp and sometimes rocky ridges. Here too are
low-level walks between, rather than over, these most spectacular of
summits. Gentle footpaths from the Caledonian Canal to the Nevis Gorge
and the birch woods of Kinlochleven are just the start. Beyond are great
through-routes along empty glens by lonely bothies to the edges of
Rannoch Moor. The area is notable for tent or bothy treks that are short
(2-4 days), and well supplied with villages, railways and bus stops, but
still serious in terms of remoteness and scenery. The region's 43 Munro
summits are covered, including three scrambles. Low and mid-level routes
are illustrated with 1:50,000 OS Landranger mapping Ronald Turnbull
lives close to the Carsphairn and Lowther Hills. He was one of the first
people to walk the Southern Upland Way. He is a runner as well as a
walker, and in 1986 was awarded the Long Distance Trophy of the Fell
Running Association for a non-stop journey over the 148 hills of
Southern Scotland. Outside the Southern Uplands he walks, climbs, runs
and writes about the Highlands and sometimes England.
