A fine day on Sgùman Còinntich.    The narrow road beside Loch Long (Inverness-shire), took me to a parking place at Killilan for a leisurely start and a pleasant round of Sgùman Còinntich on an increasingly sunny, but hazy day. This picture shows Sgùman Còinntich on my return. The cyclists had set out at the same time as me to go to the Falls of Glomach and were returning at the same time, too.       Killilan is the estate village for Inverinate Estate, known locally as the estate owned by the

A long hike for a world-class mountain viewpoint and more.    I was looking for a good long walk and wanted to see the new path works completed by contractors for the John Muir Trust in Glen Sligachan and up onto Druim Hain. Once I stepped away from the large number of visiting people whose minibus had arrived as I was leaving, the path was quiet, and I was passed only by an intrepid mountain biker heading to Camaunary. He was finding it difficult to get any rhythm, as he kept having to get off

A fine day in the Arctic city of Tromso, so what to do? Take the snow-shoes up the hill for a good walk! It would have been skis if I had been able to fit them into my baggage, and the boots, and skins and poles. No - it was too much. This was great anyway, and the snow-shoes were useful for all sorts of other walks in the woods. To save a bit of time I took the bus out to the foot of the hill. There is a cable-car, but I walked up the gap in the trees to its left. It got very steep and I

Rødtinden on Kvaløy Tromsø is a great city for its bus transport. So despite having an appartment for a week in the outskirts, in the student area, we were able to access all parts of the city and a great selection of walks in the surrounding hills, even in February. We did have rather high expections, though, which were not quite realistic.... It was quite snowy and the bus didn’t stop for us as we waited. We realised that if it had done, it wouldn’t have got going again up the hill, so fair