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Promoting walking in Scotland
Walkhighlands' misson is to encourage the enjoyment of walking through being the best information source and social network for walkers in Scotland.
In doing so we also aim to help the small, local tourism businesses so vital to Scotland's rural economy through providing low-cost, highly-targetted advertising.
Walkhighlands is the busiest walking routes site in the UK and far and away the busiest outdoors website in Scotland, with 13,000 visitors each day viewing over 6 million pages of information every month.
We are constantly expanding and currently feature over 1,600 walking routes including everything from detailed routes up every Munro to short woodland or even urban walks. Through our partnership with the Ordnance Survey, every route has a detailed map. We also feature podcasts giving the correct pronunciaton and place-name meanings, a 3D visualisation of every route, gradient profiles, route downloads for GPS devices and much, much more. Our users record their own outdoors experiences through their personal 'walks diaries' and can share their walking stories, photos and videos on the routes and hill descriptions throughout the site. Users can even draw and share their routes on Ordnance Survey mapping using our unique GPS planner. For those attempting a long term objective such as the Munros we provide interactive personal 'hill-bagging' maps to record your progress. All the features on Walkhighlands are free of charge for personal use.
Helen Webster
Helen co-founded Walkhighlands in February 2007. The idea originated during her 4,000 mile continuous walk across Europe with Paul in 2003/4.
Helen deals with all classified advertising, marketing and media enquiries, as well as being the author of hundreds of Walkhighlands routes.
Paul Webster
Paul is the co-founder of Walkhighlands as well as the co-author with Helen of eleven books and numerous magazine articles about walking in the UK. He also is a member of the Cairngorms National Park Local Outdoor Access Forum.
Paul deals with all technical aspects of Walkhighlands and with banner advertising, as well as being the routes editor.
Phil Turner
A keen advocate of lightweight gear for backpacking, Phil is Walkhighlands' gear editor as well as the author of many of our routes in southern Scotland.
Phil a full-time outdoors writer, is the editor of Outdoor Enthusiast (OE) magazine, author of Arran: 40 Favourite Walks and has several other walking books in preparation.
Chris Townsend
Chris is the author and photographer of the Walkhighlands' guides to the Southern Upland Way and the Annandale Way.
A lifelong enthusiast for wild places and for long distance backpacking, Chris is one of the UK's best known writers on walking. Chris is a past president of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and is the Gear Editor for TGO magazine. He also keeps a regular blog.
Cameron McNeish
Cameron writes the new Walkhighlands' Viewpoint column.
Probably Britain's best known mountain walker and backpacker, Cameron will be a familiar face to most due to his BBC TV work presenting series such as The Edge and Wilderness Walks, Cameron is currently a presenter with the Adventure Show. He's written many popular books and was for many years the editor of TGO Magazine.
