Walking, scrambling Loch Lomond and the Trossachs

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Further Reading

Guidebooks

Walking the Munros Vol 1 Southern
by Steve Kew, p/b Cicerone
ISBN 978 1 85284 402 8 (2004)
If you simply wanted the convenient route up each of the Munros, then you should buy Kew’s book rather than this one.

Arran, Arrochar and the Southern Highlands by Graham Little, Tom Prentice
and Ken Crocket, p/b SMC
ISBN 0 907521 49 5 (1997)
Climbing guide on summer rock and winter ice.

Backpacker’s Britain: Central and Southern Scottish Highlands
by Graham Uney, p/b Cicerone
ISBN 978 1 85284 527 8 (2008)
Four of the two-day routes are in Lomond and The Trossachs: Crianlarich Munros; Ben Vorlich from Glen Artney; Ben Ledi and Benvane with two hills to their northwest; Ben and Loch Lomond; plus many more for in-tents travellers elsewhere. As you’d expect, route description is briefer than in this book.

Scotland’s Mountain Ridges
by Dan Bailey, p/b Cicerone
ISBN 978 1 85284 469 1 (2006)
Two climbs (Mod–Diff) on The Cobbler, Ben Lui ridges in winter; with similar (but mostly more demanding) routes elsewhere. 

The West Highland Way
by Terry Marsh, p/b Cicerone
ISBN 978 1 85284 369 4 (2007)

The Rob Roy Way
by Jacquetta Megarry,
p/b Rucksack Readers
ISBN 978 1 898481 26 3 (2006)

The Cowal Way with Isle of Bute
by Michael Kaufman and Jim McLuckie, p/b Rucksack Readers
ISBN 978 1 898481 32 4 (2009)

General

Rob Roy Macgregor: His Life And Times
by W. H. Murray, p/b Canongate
ISBN 978 0 86241538 9
Closely researched but readable; somewhat partisan in favour of Rob Roy and Highlanders (apart from Campbells) – but why not?

Rob Roy by Walter Scott (1817)
The myth rather than the man. One of the least unreadable of Scott’s novels; includes an ambush alongside Loch Katrine.

Mountaineering in Scotland
by W.H. Murray, Bâton Wicks
ISBN 978 1 89857 323 4 (Dent, 1947)
The Cobbler should be climbed up! Places hillwalking in its wider context of rock, snow and ice climbing, while being the greatest work so far of Scottish landscape appreciation.

Loch Lomond to Stirling: A Landscape Fashioned by Geology
SNH/BGS 1 85397 119 7 (2005)
Well illustrated and lucid but a bit brief.

Granite and Grit: a Walkers’ Guide to the Geology of British Mountains
by Ronald Turnbull, p/b Frances Lincoln
ISBN 978 0 71122914 3 (2009)
Okay, I wrote it. It’s got a whole chapter on the schist.

Hostile Habitats: Scotland’s Mountain Environment
p/b SMT ISBN 978 0 907521 93 8 (2006)
Takes your knowledge a bit further on everything from ravens to the Romans.