Wandelgids Schotland: Central and Southern Scottish Highlands | Cicerone (9781852845278)

• ISBN / Code:
  9781852845278
• Aantal blz.:
  256
• Uitgever:
  Cicerone Press
• Editie:
  2008
• Soort:
  Wandelgids
• Taal:
  Engels
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Wandelgids Schotland: Central and Southern Scottish Highlands | Cicerone

A guide to backpacking in the Central and Southern Highlands of Scotland, with 30 trekking routes – ranging from 2 to 7 days in length - over the highest peaks in Britain. And these wild mountains, rocky coasts and long, winding glens are all within a couple of hours’ drive of Edinburgh or Glasgow.

This fourth book in the Backpacker’s Britain series takes trekkers, backpackers (and fellrunners) on a thorough exploration of the Central and Southern Highlands of Scotland with all its wild mountains, rocky coasts and long, winding glens. It offers a range of trekking routes from a superb traverse of all the 4000ft peaks, to classic through-routes in the Cairngorms and many weekend circuits over the highest peaks in Britain – all within a couple of hours’ drive of Edinburgh or Glasgow. Packed with information, this guide is all you need to plan your next wilderness trip.

30 multi-day backpacking routes, ranging from 7 days in length down to 2 (or perhaps 1 for very fit walkers and fellrunners)
routes in all the main mountain regions south of the Great Glen, including the Monadhliath, Cairngorms, Nevis range, Mamores, Glen Lyon Hills and Arrochar Alps
full information for each route about how to get there, accommodation at the start, campsites, bothies and hostels along the way and also contact details for the tourist information offices to find out more.

The mountains of Britain are one of the richest, most diverse landscapes to be found anywhere in the world. Many of our mountain and moorland regions are also within easy reach of town and city, and the Southern Highlands can be counted among them, being within a couple of hours drive from either Glasgow or Edinburgh.

Wild mountains, rocky coasts, and long, winding glens make this one of the best regions for the backpacker to explore. There are places here that take days to reach on foot, places where only the dedicated backpacker can venture. This is wilderness exploration at its best. Crossing a mountain range from one end to the other, or climbing a set of peaks around a desolate Highland glen will introduce the walker to hitherto unknown regions, and where such a trip involves the commitment of an overnight stopover or more, so much the better.

There is much to be discovered within the various mountain ranges of the Southern Highlands, but some of the coastlines and lesser hill ranges also deserve a mention, for they are just as vital a component of our natural heritage as any of the higher regions, and they can often be as grand. There is a limitless variety of possible backpacking routes, all as good as each other in terms of sense of achievement to be had from a successful trip.

The first book in this Backpacker’s Britain series covered Northern England, the second covered Wales, and the third, on Northern Scotland, introduced the superb multi-day walks that could be had north of the Great Glen. This book focuses on detailed backpacking routes in some of the finest corners of Southern Scotland. Thirty routes within the boundaries of the Southern Highlands are described here, all taking two or more days to complete, with overnight stops at a bothy, youth hostel or camping, either wild or at a recognised campsite. These are in my opinion the very best backpacking walks in the region, but there is endless scope for further exploration. This should be seen only as an introduction, an aperitif perhaps, for other routes that can be planned and tackled by those who have gained experience through following the routes described here.

For the purposes of these books I have taken the boundary between Northern Scotland and Southern Scotland as being the Great Glen, that huge trench with its string of lochs stretching between Inverness on the Moray Firth in the north-east of the country to Fort William on Loch Linnhe in the west. This book features walks south of the Great Glen, and north of the Scottish central belt – the great cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.