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Kintail Mountain Rescue Team launches fundraising for new base

Posted on July 3, 2026 by Helen Webster

Kintail Mountain Rescue Team has launching a fundraising drive for a new rescue base. The west coast rescue team has applied for planning permission for a new modern home for its growing team of volunteers and space for the team’s vehicles and specialist equipment. Kintail MRT has around 30 full team members ready to respond to emergency calls from the mountains and other remote areas 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The team covers a vast area taking in Kintail and part of Glen Affric, as well as Inverinate, Killinan and Monar, encompassing 39 munros and many…

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Kintyre Way solitude and Celtic myths win June prizes

Posted on July 2, 2026 by Helen Webster

Each month 2 reports are chosen to win vouchers from Scottish outdoor gear retailer, Highlander. For June the £100 1st prize goes to Stuart3957 for Six days on the Kintyre Way. His report gives an honest, and beautifully illustrated, account of this, often-overlooked, Scottish long distance route. Have a read and be motivated to start planning your own multi-day adventure. A Perthshire bike and hike wins the runner up prize. A £50 voucher is on its way to malcy_c for Beinn Mhanac from the east – an inspiration to explore different routes and lovely to see the Tigh nam Bodach and the stone…

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Our picks: 10 walks for island journeys

Posted on July 1, 2026 by Paul Webster

Where Next? There are few things in life that beat a journey linking several of Scotland’s magical west coast islands. A trip to just one island can be a memorable adventure – but by combining different islands, the landscapes, culture and experience shift with each ferry ride. From the whisky distilleries of Islay to the machair-backed beaches of Uist, island-hopping reveals the amazing diversity that the Hebrides can offer. In this article, sponsored by Scotland’s Hebridean and Clyde ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac), we pick 10 of our own favourite walks from the islands off Scotland’s west coast. CalMac is the…

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New section of Great Glen Way opens

Posted on June 17, 2026 by Helen Webster

A new off-road section of the Great Glen Way has been opened taking walkers away from the tarmac for much of the section between Bunloit and Drumnadrochit. The new section is on the Invermoriston to Drumnadrochit stage, and takes walkers and cyclists off the narrow, and sometimes busy, Bunloit road for a new 3.3km section from Ancarraig to Clunebeg. The updated route is now on the Walkhighlands app and website with a new description and mapping for that stage. The new section is also clearly waymarked and affects both the High and Low Routes for that stage. The new route…

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Ticks – awareness, prevention…..and complacency

Posted on June 14, 2026 by Ben Dolphin

One day last month at around 4pm, I spent about 10 minutes off-path, walking through heather. I got home half an hour later, flumped on the sofa with a bowl of twiglets, got the fire going, had dinner and then settled down for the evening. I was quite tired and fell asleep in front of the fire. Around 11pm, just before bed, I felt an itch on my thigh. On closer inspection I found a tiny black dot in a small, itchy red circle. Ugh, a tick! I’d been working indoors the previous few days, so this was very likely…

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New Walkhighlands app goes live

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Helen Webster

The new Walkhighlands app is available at last in Apple App store and Google Play! If you’ve previously used our old non-app store app, it is now obsolete. Please uninstall it and install the new one from the app stores (link in our profile). Your app will then be automatically kept up to date.

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Tales of School and Bob Graham bag May’s prizes

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Helen Webster

Each month two walk reports from the Walkhighlands Forum are chosen to win vouchers from Scottish outdoor gear retailer, Highlander. The £100 May 1st prize went to k traverses for Midnight Bus, Highland Morning & 2 Ballachulish Munros. The judges commented that, “it’s always interesting to read their reports of walks in Scotland and south of the border done from public transport but this one stood out for it’s fantastic photos and epic ambition for a day walk by bus”. Something different was chosen for the runner up prize. A £50 voucher is on its way to ProfRob for The Bob Graham…

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Mountain Therapy for Brain Cancer

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Helen Webster

In January 2024 we talked to BBC Scotland’s political editor about his decision to tackle the Munros in the face of a terminal brain cancer diagnosis. Two years on, Glenn Campbell brings us up to date on those twin challenges: Ever since I was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer three years ago, Scotland’s mountains have become part of my therapy. Not an official prescription – just some self-medication that helps keep me fit and lifts my spirits. Within weeks of emergency surgery to remove as much of my tumour as possible, I climbed my first Munro in a long time. It was…

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Our picks: 10 walks from the Scottish Grand Tour

Posted on May 29, 2026 by Paul Webster

Experience one of the world’s great rail journeys – an unforgettable loop through the Scottish Highlands. ScotRail’s Scottish Grand Tour ticket is designed for multi-day exploration, combining scenic rail travel with the freedom to stop off and explore along the way. With four days of travel within eight consecutive days, all for just £92, it’s an ideal way to discover Scotland at your own pace. Starting from either Edinburgh or Glasgow, the Scottish Grand Tour offers a circular, one-way journey through some of the country’s most iconic landscapes and award- winning rail routes. Hop on and off at stations on your route…

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Our pick – Scotland’s best island beaches

Posted on May 20, 2026 by Paul Webster

We’ve previously posted our pick of the most beautiful beaches in the West Highlands. Now we board the ferries to visit Scotland’s stunning islands on a journey through the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland – blessed with some of the very finest beaches in the world. Check out also our guide to the best of Scotland’s east coast beaches. Bagh na Doirlinnhe, Gigha Set off the Kintyre peninsula, Gigha is an island that really deserves to be better known. It has several excellent beaches, but the pick of them has to be Bagh na Doirlinnhe in the north, where twin beaches…

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