Walkhighlands is delighted to welcome Phil Turner as its Gear Editor. Phil is an outdoor enthusiast and writer and has already written a great many routes for Walkhighlands; he’s also an expert on lightweight backpacking and camping with a seemingly unquenchable thirst for trying new outdoors gear. Phil spends as much time as possible walking in Scotland and will be rigorously testing a wide range of gear to provide up to the minute comparison reviews on Walkhighlands over the coming months. Phil is also author of numerous magazine articles as well as his popular blog Lightweight Outdoors, and is currently working…

Walkhighlands has teamed up with outdoor gear retailer OutdoorKit.co.uk and has £100 worth of vouchers to give away to a lucky winner. OutdoorKit is one of the UK’s leading online supplier of outdoor clothing and equipment. We’re based in a warehouse in Luton, Bedfordshire which stocks over 2,900 outdoor products. The company also have an established shop in St. Albans high street. For a chance to win, enter the competition here.

Anyone wanting the chance to win copies of Chris Townsend’s photographic book about the Cairngorms needs to get their skates on. Walkhighlands has four copies of ‘a year in the life of the cairngorms’ to give away, but entries close on 31 August. The Cairngorms contain the greatest area of land over 4,000 feet above sea level, the largest Caledonian pine forests and the biggest national park in Britain. This spectacular land of mountains, lochs, rivers and woods is wild and beautiful. The mountains form a series of vast sub-arctic plateaux ringed by big granite cliffs, deep lake-filled corries and…

The Scottish walking website, Walkhighlands has added another batch of walks on the Isle of Mull and they are already proving very popular with internet and smartphone users. The site now offers detailed descriptions, complete with free OS Explorer mapping and GPS downloads, for 45 routes on the island. The routes range from routes on Mull’s only Munro, Ben More and other hillwalks, to coastal scrambles, easier beach walks and strolls to historic sites. Walkhighlands founder Paul Webster said, “We’ve been surprised at how popular our Mull routes are proving to be. It seems that visitors to Mull and locals…

Walkhighlands has a mixed case of 20x500ml bottles of organic beer to give away, to celebrate the opening of the brand new brewery building at the Black Isle Brewery. The Black Isle Brewing Company is a small intensely independent organic brewery in the heart of the Scottish Highlands. Its mission is to produce a range of top quality organic beers packaged in recycled materials. The barley and hops used are grown on organic farms, without artificial fertilisers or herbicides. The folks at Black Isle Brewery believe that their beer is the best for both you and the environment, but for…