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Skye's bristling mountains and sweeping coastline offer an enormous selection of walking and climbing routes through some of the most beautiful and dramatic landscapes in Scotland. For this popular guide, Ralph Storer has selected the very best walks on the island to demonstrate the variety it has to offer new visitors and seasoned campaigners alike. The walks, scrambles and climbs he has gathered offer varying levels of difficulty, from gentle coastal strolls to challenging mountain ascents. This edition of the guide has been brought fully up to date and much new information has been added. As well as guiding the climbers and walkers around the Misty Isle, there are sections on geology, history, wildlife and much more, and comprehensive visitor information is included. Maps and the author's striking photographs make this an essential guide for all lovers of this most Scottish of islands.
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Ralph Storer was born in England but now lives in Edinburgh, where he has worked for many years in the field of Information Technology, latterly lecturing in computer studies at Napier University. He has written many books including a novel, and is a well known and respected author of hill-walking guidebooks. He has walked and climbed extensively all over the world, but feels particularly at home in the Scottish Highlands.
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The steep tapering cone of Sgurr nan Gillean at the north end of the Cuillin is one of the most distinctive mountains in the range. Read the first page
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This excellent book contains walks for all levels and abilities with full details and grid references. If you are a hillwalker, mountaineer or active tourist this book will show you parts of this beautiful island you can see by just getting off the beaten track or actively exploring the wild interior of the Cullin.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Many mountaineering and walking field guides look as though they have been put together on a budget. This book is one of those but don't be put off.
The sketch maps are simple but give all the detail you need for planning a route in this most complex part of Britain: rivers, lochans, ridge lines, crags, summits etc. The summits are classified by symbols from those under 2000' all the way to Munros.
The author has devised a 5 point grading scale which he applies to each walk, to give an impression of the difficulties to be encountered. It feels a bit subjective and the "grades" do not correspond to the more familiar (3 level) scrambling grades but when you read the corresponding text you realise what he is trying to convey and there are no problems.
The true genious of the book however is his abilty to provide in a few paragraphs, all the technical and descriptive detail you need to tackle a route in the Cuillin, Trotternish etc and still have space for historical notes and comments about flora and fauna. Quite brilliant.
If there is a negative it is the photographs - with print and paper of this quality you shouldn't expect better.
The sketch maps are simple but give all the detail you need for planning a route in this most complex part of Britain: rivers, lochans, ridge lines, crags, summits etc. The summits are classified by symbols from those under 2000' all the way to Munros.
The author has devised a 5 point grading scale which he applies to each walk, to give an impression of the difficulties to be encountered. It feels a bit subjective and the "grades" do not correspond to the more familiar (3 level) scrambling grades but when you read the corresponding text you realise what he is trying to convey and there are no problems.
The true genious of the book however is his abilty to provide in a few paragraphs, all the technical and descriptive detail you need to tackle a route in the Cuillin, Trotternish etc and still have space for historical notes and comments about flora and fauna. Quite brilliant.
If there is a negative it is the photographs - with print and paper of this quality you shouldn't expect better.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a great little book for those who would like a range of different options for walking on Skye. In common with Ralph Storer's other books, such as 100 Best Routes on Scottish Mountains, he grades the walks on a 5-point scale relating to grade, terrain, navigation and seriousness. All types of walks are included from relatively straightforward coastal walks to ascents of multiple Cuillins. There is also a helpful introductory chapter on the niceties of walking and climbing on Skye with useful advice on both coastal and mountain walking.
The book itself should sit neatly in the map pocket of your waterproof, alongside the relevant OS map. The diagrams in the book, as Storer himself points out, are for illustration only, and no substitute for official OS maps. Some of them, for example, are slightly foreshortened to get all of the detail necessary onto the relevant space on the page. The photographs in the book are not, unfortunately, very well printed, but you'll want to take your own when you are out anyway.
A real bargain, and a book you'll find yourself returning to more often than some of those more expensive glossy ones!
PS If you are a fan of The Hill of the Red Fox (Kelpies) (perfect bedtime reading whilst on Skye), Route 28 is the one you'll want to start with.
The book itself should sit neatly in the map pocket of your waterproof, alongside the relevant OS map. The diagrams in the book, as Storer himself points out, are for illustration only, and no substitute for official OS maps. Some of them, for example, are slightly foreshortened to get all of the detail necessary onto the relevant space on the page. The photographs in the book are not, unfortunately, very well printed, but you'll want to take your own when you are out anyway.
A real bargain, and a book you'll find yourself returning to more often than some of those more expensive glossy ones!
PS If you are a fan of The Hill of the Red Fox (Kelpies) (perfect bedtime reading whilst on Skye), Route 28 is the one you'll want to start with.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A proper Hikers guide book
The format is perfect, with the book being A5 in size and the text is perfectly readable, even without my reading glasses. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Stuart W. Greig
Only for experts
So we bought this book for our first visit to skye, on the basis that previous reviewers didn't have too many bad things to say. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Tom Parrish
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