We took a social media break for Walkhighlands for most of October – which seemed to speed up our work on the website and app considerably. So what have we been up to? Making maps We make our own route maps especially for Walkhighlands, combining detailed topography from the Ordnance Survey (we reckon their crags and contours are really vital for navigating on the hill safety – alarmingly many apps lack this sort of detail) with the more up to date footbridge, track and path data from OSM. Hopefully this gives the best of best worlds. This month we’ve made…

Heaps of great reports in July which made picking winners difficult. However a couple of further flung adventures provided inspiration and are worthy winners: The £100 voucher for outdoor gear from Highlander is on its way to iangpark for Awe-struck on Foula – not many folks get to visit this remote Shetland island so it’s great to be able to take it all in from the walk report. The £50 runner up voucher goes to uk-scrambler who takes us to the French Alps with L’Etale by Coillu a Bordel corridor. Bastille day enjoyment. Thanks, as always, to everyone who posted.  Each month, Walkhighlands…

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…

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.