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50 Classic Routes on Scottish Mountains [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Ralph Storer (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 112 pages
  • Publisher: David & Charles PLC; illustrated edition edition (28 Feb 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0715305565
  • ISBN-13: 978-0715305560
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,338,391 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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One of a series of guidebooks covering the best of Scottish hillwalking, this volume selects locations across the Highlands to provide a satisfying cross-section of 50 routes, all including a peak over 2000 feet and accessible by road. The walks range from gentle strolls to challenging scrambles.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Splendid Introduction to Scottish Hillwalking., 24 Dec 2001
By porthbunny@aol.com (Durham City, England.) - See all my reviews
I strongly recommend this book to anyone wishing to plan a holiday exploring the Scottish Highlands. Storer's Classic Routes are drawn from all the Highland areas of mainland Scotland plus two routes on the island of Harris. Each route has a sketch map, a colour photograph, a descriptive grid indicating the overall difficulty and seasonal, historical, geological and other notes of interest including an explanation of Gaelic names where appropriate.

The overall difficulty of a route is assessed in terms of "grade", "terrain", "navigation" and "seriousness", with each given a rating from 1 (easiest) to 5 (hardest). For planning the holiday, one can add these four ratings together to give an Overall Difficulty Rating (ODR) for each route. This is most useful information, because distance alone gives an inadequate assessment of the demands of a particular route. For example, Route 44 Broad Cairn in the Cairngorms is a 14 mile ODR 5 for a fairly easy day whereas Route 37 Beinn Dearg (Torridon) in the Northern Highlands is only 11½ miles, but an ODR 18 for a much more challenging expedition.

Storer stresses that his sketch maps are not intended for use on the hill and the appropriate scale, either 1/50,000 or 1/25,000, Ordnance Survey map is essential for these routes. However, this brings me to my only criticism of the book. For someone like me who started walking in the Lake District with Wainwright's pocket volumes, Storer's book is somewhat lacking in detail. For this reason alone and perhaps unfairly, given that Wainwright's volumes are truly phenomenal for meticulous detail, I withhold the "fifth star" from Storer's otherwise splendid Classic Routes.

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