Phew! June was quite the month weather wise across Scotland, and the seemingly endless sunshine led to you submitting a bumper bundle of 238 walk reports through the month. Every month, two winning Walk Reports are chosen from the Walkhighlands forum, with the winner taking £100 of vouchers to spend at Highlander Outdoors, with £50 of vouchers to the runner up. The June winner was jimbell21 for his report of a memorable wild-camp on Scotland’s most remote Munros – Fisherfield 6 – summit camp & inversion on A’ Mhaighdean. What a sensational trip – paid for by a potentially terrifying dunking…

We’ve just completed a major update of our routes across Dumfries and Galloway – focussing on the walks at lower levels, and the first sections of the Southern Upland Way. Over the last week 40 routes have been completely rewalked, rewritten and photographed, which combined with last years updates means almost all the routes in the region have been rewalked and written in the last year. The expanded coverage includes four routes which are completely new to Walkhighlands. The Watson Bird Walk at St John’s Town of Dalry which was created in 2022 to celebrate the late Donald Watson, a…