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This guide covers a substantial area of Scotland's western seaboard. The walks divide simply into mountain and coastal routes. A clifftop walk starting at Stoer gives stunning views of Quinag and Ben More and the Outer Hebridean islands, while another route starts from Shieldaig, a picturesque village facing west towards the Applecross peninsula. For the more adventurous, there is a walk to Rubha Hunish, the most northerly point of Skye. This tiny peninsula can be reached only by descending 300 ft high cliffs but it is a uniquely wild and beautiful spot.
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This review is from: Pathfinder Skye & the North West Highlands: Walks (Pathfinder Guide) (Paperback)
An interesting and useful guide for visitors to this beautiful area who like walking. However, this guide does not appear to have been revised since 1996 and some of the paths are not in the condition described. Those looking for walks in the "easy" category might feel misled and might even get lost or encounter difficulty if using this book as their only guide. For example, the book describes the footpath from the A855 to the Old Man of Storr (walk 5) as "easy" and says it "follows a well maintained footpath", but when we visited last year we found the ascent very steep and the footpath VERY badly eroded, making it necessary to scramble on all fours through crumbling peat in places. I definitely would not describe it as "well maintained". To give another example, the directions given for the Shieldaig walk (walk 2) are far too vague - at one point the only direction given is "the way swings southwards" where in reality there is a sheer drop with no apparent pathway down! On the plus side, some of the walks are well described and very enjoyable - for example walk 16, Coire Mhic Fhearchair is a wonderful, scenic walk up into the Torridon mountains, between the peaks of Beinn Eighe and Liathach. I would recommend supplementing this book with use of a large-scale OS map and a compass at all times and then you should be fine.
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This review is from: Pathfinder Skye & the North West Highlands: Walks (Pathfinder Guide) (Paperback)
I absolutely love the Pathfinder Guides and have seen many a walker on the same route as me with the very same book in hand. However, this edition doesn't compare with the rest. The title says it all: `Skye and the North West Highlands'. If you are planning a trip to Skye then this book has plenty of walks of differing degrees of length and difficulty. However, if you are planning to go to the North West Highlands, e.g. anywhere north of Skye, then I would advise against this guide, as the limited number of walks beyond Skye does not justify the price.
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This review is from: Pathfinder Skye & the North West Highlands: Walks (Pathfinder Guide) (Paperback)
We were booked up to spend a few days in Gairloch and decided to buy this guide.
We are glad we did as some of the walks we managed to cram in were spectacular and we probably would have missed out if it hadn't been for this book. Will certainly be buying more of this series of guides.
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