There are some excellent outdoor activities to enjoy in while visiting Fort William. However, with an average yearly rainfall of 1,883 inches (74.133 mm) occurring in Fort William, the chances of your walking plans being rained off makes it worth having a backup plan for your outdoors itinerary. For that reason, it is always a […]
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We awoke on the penultimate morning again to wonderfully sunny weather, just as we had the previous two mornings and was set to hold until the evening. The first few days had been tough, yet we’d only covered 30km taken at a leisurely pace. We had two days left in order to get to Glenfinnan
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Knoydart holds a place in most adventurous walker’s hearts, either as somewhere to reminisce about or to aspire to. It’s one of those places that should be near the top of your to do list, and still is on mine even if I’ve only just returned! Knoydart is a peninsula on the West Coast of Scotland, yet
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There are so many guide books out there today that it’s often difficult to see which one will be the next Poucher or Ridges of Snowdonia. This book is destined to be one of the very few that will be reprinted and will be gracing bookshelves in a generation’s time. Scotland is a hybrid reference
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With the Knoydart trip fast approaching, it seem that almost everything is now in place. The route is our Escape from Knoydart route, no reason to change that now! The weather looks like we’ll get at least a few exceptionally fine days, but there will be rain, make no mistake. Getting there. The difficulty we
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While there are many Scottish Great Trails, these are the four original Scottish long distance routes (LDRs), similar to the England and Wales National Trails, plus the daddy of them all – the unofficial Cape Wrath Trail. I’ll admit that I can’t be overly objective with these trails, as I think it’s a shame to travel
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Here are a selection of the best routes in no particular order that I’ve taken from guidebooks that are largely out of print. The criteria for the routes are the ability to inspire and describe the route in question, to make me want to explore. So the routes chosen had to have some element of
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Caledonian Sleeper Flexipass – 10 Trip 1st Class Sleeper ticket to Scotland – £1127 Even if you already live in the hills, there’s something special about the Highlands. Getting a sleeper there for a long weekend, three days walking and back before work on the Monday Morning. Walking off the train in the middle of
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Originally posted on the Walk Eryri Blog a few years back and the images are rather poor as they were taken with a mobile. This was my first day in Loch Ossian YH. On leaving the train, it was a quick walk to the Youth Hostel where I was greeted by Nick and told where
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Originally posted on the Walk Eryri Blog a few years back and the images are rather poor as taken with a mobile. This was my second day in Loch Ossian YH with an ascent of Leum Uilleim. The next day saw much the same sort of weather as yesterday. Rain and wind, with very little sun
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This route originally appeared on the Walk Eryri Blog a few years ago. The weather forecast had been eagerly anticipated the previous night and it shaped the next day ‘s walk as it was anticipating not just foul weather, I can cope with that, but lightning. That I don‘t really fancy. So Carn Dearg and a couple
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Carn Dearg from Corrour Station – originally posted on the Walk Eryri Blog a few years back. Arriving on the sleeper at Corrour, i had managed to sleep much better this time thank you. An easy walk was all i wanted though, and the easiest walk left was that up Carn Dearg (and Sgorr Gailbhre). I
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The Munros of Chno Dearg and Stob Coire Sgriodain are more often ascended from Fersaid/Fersit to the north, but the approach from Corrour is much more epic! Some walks are easy. Others are tiring. Not many get that Epic label, and this was one of them. One of the hardest mountain days I’ve had. In perfect
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This was a bit of an expedition, having to book the sleeper weeks in advance. And as for Bargain Berths, forget it. I think only the psychic manage to get hold of them. I then spent weeks looking over the maps of Lochaber, deciding on a route. The Grey Corries and a bothy trip was
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I’d never stayed in a youth hostel till this trip. Why bother, I’ve lived within convenient distance of the hills. I can camp if it’s foul weather, or make use of the one and only mountain bothy in North Eryri if it’s worse. So this was a change of tack for me. I was greeted,
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