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A guide to the best walking routes in the mountains of Torridon in the western Highlands of Scotland. Based around Shieldaig and Slioch, the 52 day walks include easy walks to routes up Torridon's best summits, including nine Munros. The mountains of Torridon rarely have clearly defined paths to their summits, but the many excellent stalkers' paths take walkers deep into wild territory and often give them a flying start. To explore this remote and much-loved area of the Highlands fully you need to be prepared to free-range over heather, grass, rock and marsh and this guide will help you find the best ways across the landscape. This book makes Shieldaig its base and covers the 200 square miles south west of Loch Maree and north of the Achnasheen-Achnashellach-Lochcarron road, as well as Slioch and its environs. It offers a wealth of routes of different grades and differing characters. It is also beautifully illustrated with Peter Barton's original drawings, alongside clear OS map extracts. Routes described include 11 easy walks, 11 long or high-level walks, ascents of 32 summits over 2000ft and 5 outline suggestions for major ridge walks.
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Peter Barton produced this much-loved guide in 1989, after retiring to Torridon following a career in surgery. The guide has been revised and updated, in keeping with Peter's original style, by Chris Lowe, an author of wildlife guides to the region, with Jim Sutherland, local guide.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I purchased this book after experiencing a fantastic Cicerone guide (Great mountain days out in the Lake District - highly recommended!)Which showed excellent 3d views of the routes and lots of alternatives to the treadmill tourist tracks. After a fantastic week spent based at Langdale my partner and I thought - let's explore some of the other cicerone guides for our bi-annual walking trips up to Scotland. We have been wandering in various hill ranges of Scotland for the last 10 years and mostly get inspiration from Ralph Storer or Cameron Mcneish guides before we plan a route and set out - but this guide enabled us both to explore some of the 'scarier' hills which my partner had been avoiding (mostly due to myth, legend and the odd pure fact!). This book managed to put the Torridon hills into a realistic context and has no shame ( if you want to )'avoiding' the Horns of Alligin, or alternative routes to the legendary precipitous paths of Liathach - much to the delight of my partner(serious vertigo issues) - yet still gives fantastic walks - bags the munros and keeps everyone happy (rather than the usual coaxing,reassurance and panic tantrums)! Well written constructive advice - which made for some great dawn till dusk days on the hills. There are 3d sketches in this book also - not as good as the Lake District guide we used before - but still useful. The book is a pocket guide - with a plastic cover so durable & easy to take with you - along with the usual map and compass.
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Peter Barton's brilliant original guide to walking in Torridon has been sensitively updated - by leaving much of the text unchanged. OS maps have been added and some additional general notes (plus some route amendments where necessary), but if you already have the original guide there is little need to update with this one.
This book is by far the best guide to walking in that amazing wilderness that is Torridon. It contains about 50 walks, most of them serious undertakings - all the Munros and Corbetts are included. Even some of the walks labelled "easy" are pretty heavy duty - for example the low level circuit of Beinn Alligin takes you into some very remote country: not for the inexperienced; compass skills definitely a good idea. Torridon offers some of the most beautiful hills and the most remarkable country in Scotland. Beinn Alligin, the corrie in Beinn Eighe, and Liathach, are probably the most wonderful walks I have ever done - and there are many more fine hills there. This book is the best guide to the area you can get. Remember also your boots, rain gear, compass, map, food and water. Torridon is a desolate and lonely wilderness: take care out there.
This book is by far the best guide to walking in that amazing wilderness that is Torridon. It contains about 50 walks, most of them serious undertakings - all the Munros and Corbetts are included. Even some of the walks labelled "easy" are pretty heavy duty - for example the low level circuit of Beinn Alligin takes you into some very remote country: not for the inexperienced; compass skills definitely a good idea. Torridon offers some of the most beautiful hills and the most remarkable country in Scotland. Beinn Alligin, the corrie in Beinn Eighe, and Liathach, are probably the most wonderful walks I have ever done - and there are many more fine hills there. This book is the best guide to the area you can get. Remember also your boots, rain gear, compass, map, food and water. Torridon is a desolate and lonely wilderness: take care out there.
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