Best Guidebook Walks 6 – The Saddle and the Forcan Ridge
This route featured in our article on My Favourite Guidebook Walks and is taken from Irvine Butterfield’s classic tome – The High Mountains of Britain and Ireland Vol 1.
Enigmatically named volume 1 thirty years ago, this is still a standalone volume. The cover of the original had a shot of the Forcan Ridge, with even more impressive images of the walk accompanying the route, which was all I needed. A lofty peak, rocky exposed ridge and plenty of green made it look like somewhere I’d like to walk. Unfortunately, the new book has a new cover – while equally impressive just isn’t the original. I have no plans to do this walk any time soon as it’s just too damn far north! Though a week or so in Glen Shiel is nothing to be sniffed at, but I can’t see how it would be practical without driving there. The shot below is the same as the book’s cover, only less green!
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| Height Gained 1,509m | Distance 16km | Time 6 hrs 14 min | Download Route |
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The Route can only be found in Irvine Butterfield’s classic tome - The High Mountains of Britain and Ireland Vol 1 which you may be able to get second hand online, but well worth buying.
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