The Munros Vol 2 - Northern Highlands and the Cairngorms
Walking the Munros Vol 2 – Northern Highlands and the Cairngorms
by Steve Kew
The second of two guidebooks to walking Scotland's Munros, this guidebook details routes to 145 Munros in the Cairngorms, northern Scottish highlands (north of the Great Glen) and Skye. Volume 1 covers Munros in the southern, central and western Highlands. More...
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Seasons
Munros can be walked year round; but if the midges bite you then avoid summer, and if you are not Read More... comfortable on snow then avoid winter.Centres
Braemar, Aviemore, Inverness, Fort William, Skye, Ullapool, Torridon. Through treks and wild Read More... camping also possible.Difficulty
Munros range from straightforward to virtually climbing, with appropriate skills required. Real Read More... mountaineering in winter conditions.Must See
Stac Polly at dawn, sunset over the western Isles, your big grin after doing the In Pinn.Barton, B. and Wright, B., A Chance in a Million? Scottish Avalanches (Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 2000)
Bennet, D.J. (ed), Munro’s Tables (Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 1997)
British Geological Survey (various authors), British Regional Geology Series, ‘Volume 2: the Northern Highlands’, ‘Volume 3: The Tertiary Volcanic Districts’, ‘Volume 4: The Grampian Highlands’ (HMSO, London)
Daiches, D., Bonnie Prince Charlie (Penguin Books, 2002)
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Darling, F. and Boyd, M., The Highlands and Islands (Collins, Fontana New Naturalist Series, 1964)
Dixon, C. and Dixon, J., Plants and People in Ancient Scotland (Tempus, 2000)
Drummond, P., Scottish Hill and Mountain Names (Edinburgh, Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 1991)
Lusby, P. and Wright, J., Scottish Wild Plants (Mercat Press, 1997)
Mackenzie, W.C., Scottish Place Names, Kegan Paul (Trench and Trubner, London, 1931)
Macleod, A. (translation), The Songs of Duncan Ban Macintyre (Oliver and Boyd for the Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 1952)
Mitchell, I., Scotland’s Mountains Before the Mountaineers (Luath Press, 1998)
Moran, M., Scotland’s Winter Mountains (David and Charles, 1988)
Murray, W.H., Scotland’s Mountains (Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 1987)
Nicolaisen, W., Scottish Place-names, their Study and Significance (Batsford, London, 1976)
Ross, D., Scottish Place Names (Birlinn, 2001)
Watson, W.J., The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland (Birlinn, 1993 (first published William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1926))












