Tired, and acheing in places I didn't know it was possible to ache - I awoke this morning with that post-hillwalking feeling, which is a...

I was a cyclist long before I was a hillwalker. The reasons for that were almost entirely practical. Although I have lived my whole adult li...

On Saturday May 10th 2025, I finally completed my round of the Munros. It's taken a ridiculously long time, as I climbed the first one i...

It was the ever-entertaining Muriel Grey who used to say on The Munro Show , "This hill features a particularly long walk-in - and you ...

On a glorious Summer's day, my wife and I drove North - our target for the day, The Mamores. In the classic TV series, "The Munro S...

It is many years since I have ventured into that most special of Scottish peninsulas: Knoydart. Even the name Knoydart is enticing, and the ...

Sgùrr Mòr (Loch Quoich) - the bit in the brackets distinguishes it from its namesake in Torridon's Beinn Alligin mountain, or it's a...

Ah, the Monadliath! These great miles of undulating high country, of wide sculpted hills which somehow lack the 'superstar' status o...

It's well over twenty years since I have been up this rather neglected Munro. After the experience I had back then, it's perhaps sur...

There is really is something wonderful about the vast area of wild land that lies between Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh. The roads, and rai...

As Munroing expeditions in Scotland go - this is one of the most awkward. Not because it contains any technical scrambles, unfordable rivers...

On the south side of Loch Quoich lies the wonderful mountain of Gairich. Last week we were on North side of the loch from where it looks irr...