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by Chris Townsend
A handbook covering the finest walks, scrambles, climbs and ski tours in Scotland, with its variety of wild landscapes ranging from the Southern Uplands to the great granite plateaus of the Cairngorms and jagged arêtes of the Cuillin hills on the Isle of Skye. All the information the independent mountain lover needs for any activity. More...
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hillwalking, backpacking, climbing including winter climbs, ski toursSeasons
year-round!Must See
Ben Nevis, the Cairngorms, Loch Lomond, Torridon, the Isle of Skye and much, much more; all the Read More... major peaks, passes and lochs coveredOctober 2010
Correction
The caption for the frontispiece photograph opposite the Acknowledgments, should be "Sgurr nan Clach Geala from Carn na Criche in the Fannaichs".
Update
Re Introduction, page 41, para 2 and
Chapter 4, Introduction, page 240, para 2
The Cairngorms National Park was enlarged to 4,528 km2 in September 2010 and now includes Blair Atholl, Glen Tilt, Beinn a’Ghlo, Glen Shee and Killiekrankie in the south-west of the region.
April 2012
Acknowledgements Thanks to Stuart Fisher and Thomas Murray for pointing out errors in the first print run.
Page 13 Col 1 Line 4: “A mere” should be “Roughly”
Page 13 Col 1 Line 5: “441” should be “450”
Page 13 Col 1 Line 6: “248” should be “246”
Page 13 Col 1 Line 7: before “Scotland” add “mainland”
Page 18 Col 1 Line 13: “59°” should be “61°”
Page 159 lines 4–5: “old rotting pier” should be “a pier used for taking out timber”
Page 206 Loch Ossian, first paragraph, line 7: should read “at the west end of the loch“
Page 230 and 325 the maps should read “Well of the Seven Heads“
Page 305 Col 2 Para 2 Line 12: before “Point of Ardnamuchan” add “Corrachadh Mor close to the”
Page 308 Map Creach Bheinn should be 853 not 583
Page 317 Glenfinnan, first paragraph, line 7: “A803“ should be “A830“
Page 321 col 2 Streap line 16: “a few hundred metres before the bothy” should be “(a few hundred yards further along the track is the site of the Gleann Dubh Lighe bothy, which burnt down in 2011).”
Page 326 The Great Glen Geography and Geology, line 6: “south-west“ should be “north-east“
Page 329 Col 2 Ben Tee line 1: “774m” should be “904m”
Page 344 Col 1 Meall nan Eun line 1: “928m” should be “667m”
Page 410 Col 2 6:3 Para 2, line 2: after “this region” add “though in 2011 surveyors for the Munro Society measured Beinn a’Chlaidheimh as just below Munro height, making it a Corbett. However, the Scottish Mountaineering Club are waiting for the Ordnance Survey to update its maps before officially confirming this so it’s still a Munro in Munro’s Tables.”
Page 410 Col 2 6:3 Para 2, line 17: after “916m”: add “in Munro’s Tables but resurveyed in 2011 as 913.96m”.
Page 410 Col 2 6:3 Para 2, line 21: “910”, should be “906”
Page 417 col 2 The Gleann na Muice Ridge, 7 lines from the bottom: “lonf” should be “long”
Page 417 col 2 The Fisherfield Six line 1: “Munros” should be “hills”
Page 428 Col 2 The hills around Beinn Dearg, lines 2–3: delete “no other hill this far north breaches 1000m”
Page 452 Col 2 Ben Stack line 1: “is the most northerly Graham” should be “is one of the most northerly Grahams”
Page 452 Col 2 Meall Horn and Sabhal Beag line 3, after Sabhal Beag add “, the most northerly Graham,”
Page 480 “Biod Buidhe“ should be “Bioda Buidhe“
Page 498 Sgurr na Banachdich col 2 lines 8–9: “easternmost” (twice) should be “westernmost”
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