Looking to walk the West Highland Way but avoid the crowds? Want to explore the larger mountains nearby, embark on serious backpacking trips, or continue north from Fort William? This guidebook takes the best of the Way and adds to it, offering detailed access, public transport, and facility information, over 100 photos, 1:50k OS mapping, detailed route description and overview maps. The routes are perfect for walking from April to October and suitable for backpackers of all levels. The guide’s four parts are:
- Mountain alternatives to eight of the nine stages of the WHW. Use the conventional overnight stops but divert onto mountains during the day for some Munro-bagging (Ben Lomond, Beinn Chabhair, Ben Lui, An Caisteal, and Beinn a’Chròin), plus smaller fells like the Mamores and Campsie fells.
- Beginner backpacking trips with two two-day routes around Fort William’s outskirts: the back of Ben Nevis and Taynuilt to Bridge of Orchy.
- Divergent routes north through remote glens and over mountains. Start from Dumbarton or Arrochar, cross the main WH way at Inverarnan, then cross Ben Lui and Loch Etive, Kinlochleven, Loch Treig, Lairig Leacach, and finish at Spean Bridge.
- Extend your journey from Fort William with multi-day excursions like Corrour to Dalwhinnie, Fort William to Inverie, Spean Bridge to Cluanie, or Cape Wrath expeditions.
€18.99
İçerik tablosu
IntroductionThe High Road and the Low
When to go
Safety in the mountains
Maps
How to use this book
A Winter Not the West Highland Way
Part 1 The High Road and the Low
Milngavie to Drymen
1 Hill Option: the Campsie Fells
Drymen to Rowardennan
Rowardennan to Inversnaid
2 Rowardennan Outing: Ben Lomond
3 Hill Crossing: Ben Lomond to Inversnaid
Inversnaid to Inverarnan
4 Hill Crossing: Beinn a’ Choin
5 Inverarnan Outing: Beinn Chabhair
Inverarnan to Tyndrum
6 Hill Crossing: Ben Lui
7 Crianlarich Outing: An Caisteal and Beinn a’ Chroin
Tyndrum to Inveroran
8 Hill Crossing: the Back of Beinn Dorain
9 Inveroran Outing: Ben Inverveigh and Meall Tairbh
Inveroran to Kings House
10 Hill Crossing: Black Mount
Kings House to Kinlochleven
11 Hill Crossing: Beinn a’ Chrulaiste and the Blackwater
Kinlochleven to Fort William
12 Hill Crossing: Mamores
13 Hill Crossing: More Mamores
14 Fort William Outing: Ben Nevis by the CMD Ar&##xea;te
Part 2 Beginnerish Backpacking
The excitement is in tents
Midges are unpleasant
May is the month
Shoulder-strengthening short trips
The off-route food-fetching formula
Stuff, stuffsacks, and throwing it all away
15 A mostly gentle two-day: the Back of Ben Nevis
16 A wilder two-day: Taynuilt to Bridge of Orchy
Part 3 Away from the Way
17 Dumbarton Start
18 Wrong side of the Loch: the Arrochar Alps
19 The Etive Trek
20 Blackwater and the Lairig Leacach
21 Routes of Rannoch
Part 4 Roads to the Deep North
22 Corrour to Dalwhinnie
23 Fort William to Inverie
24 Spean Bridge to Cluanie and even Cape Wrath
Appendix 1: Access
Appendix 2: Useful information
Appendix 3: Further reading
Yazar hakkında
Ronald Turnbull was born in St Andrews, Scotland, into an energetic fellwalking family. His grandfather was a president of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, and a more remote ancestor was distinguished as only the second climbing fatality in Snowdonia. In 1995 Ronald won the Fell Running Association’s Long-distance Trophy for a non-stop run over all the 2000ft hills of Southern Scotland; his other proud achievements include the ascent of the north ridge of the Weisshorn and a sub-2hr Ben Nevis race. He enjoys multi-day treks, through the Highlands in particular, and has made 21 different coast-to-coast crossings of the UK. He has also slept out, in bivvy bag rather than tent, on over 80 UK summits. Outside the UK he likes hot, rocky areas of Europe, ideally with beaches and cheap aeroplanes. Recently he achieved California’s 220-mile John Muir Trail and East Lothian’s 45-mile John Muir Way in a single season, believing himself the first to have achieved this slightly perverse double. He has also started trying to understand the geology of what he’s been walking and climbing on for so long. Ronald lives in the Lowther Hills of Dumfriesshire, and most of his walking, and writing, takes place in the nearby Lake District and in the Scottish Highlands. His recent books include The Book of the Bivvy , and walking/scrambling guides Loch Lomond and the Trossachs , The Cairngorms and Ben Nevis & Glen Coe , as well as Three Peaks Ten Tors – a slightly squint-eyed look at various UK challenge walks. He has nine times won Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence for his guidebooks, outdoor books (including Book of the Bivvy), and magazine articles. He has a regular column in Lakeland Walker and also writes in Trail , Cumbria and TGO (The Great Outdoors). His current, hopelessly ambitious, project is to avoid completing the Munros for at least another 20 years. Ronald’s weekly newsletter on mountains, hillwalking and history is at https://aboutmountains.substack.com/
Dil İngilizce ● Biçim EPUB ● Sayfalar 224 ● ISBN 9781849653510 ● Dosya boyutu 36.5 MB ● Yayımcı Cicerone Press ● Kent Kendal ● Ülke GB ● Yayınlanan 2011 ● Baskı 1 ● İndirilebilir 24 aylar ● Döviz EUR ● Kimlik 2427167 ● Kopya koruma Adobe DRM
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