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21 Sep 2010
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9781852846152
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17.2 x 11.6 x 1.7cm
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300g
Pages
224
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21 Sep 2010

Not the West Highland Way

by Ronald Turnbull

The West Highland Way is one of the UK’s finest long distance walks, but the path runs close to a busy main road and avoids the mountain tops. NOT The West Highland Way describes alternative routes over mountains, smaller hills or high passes to all but one of the Way's nine stages. With add-on day trips over Ben Lomond or Beinn Dorain. More...

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Seasons

April to October, with May, June and September as the best months of all; a few routes have some Read More... access limitations during stag stalking from August to October; winter months are also enjoyable for tough types

Centres

Loch Lomond, Taynuilt, Crianlarich, Tyndrum, Bridge of Orchy, Kinlochleven, Corrour Station, Fort Read More... William

Difficulty

Moderate day walks over small hills and pathed Munros; pathless but grassy ridges and high passes; Read More... treks of two or three days on valley paths; a rough crossing of Rannoch Moor; map reading and compass/GPS skills needed on the more serious routes; some non-technical scrambling

Must See

Loch Lomond from overhead; sunrise from the summit corrie of Ben Lui; woods and waterfalls of Read More... River Leven; long, lonely Loch Etive; Glen Nevis from its bleak head down to its Himalayan-style gorge
 
 

Introduction   

The High Road and the Low   

When to go   

Safety in the mountains   

Maps   

How to use this book   

A Winter Not the West Highland Way   

Part 1 The High Road and the Low   

Milngavie to Drymen   

1     Hill Option: the Campsie Fells   

Drymen to Rowardennan

 

Rowardennan to Inversnaid   

2     Rowardennan Outing: Ben Lomond   

3     Hill Crossing: Ben Lomond to Inversnaid   

Inversnaid to Inverarnan   

4     Hill Crossing: Beinn a’ Choin   

5     Inverarnan Outing: Beinn Chabhair   

Inverarnan to Tyndrum   

6     Hill Crossing: Ben Lui   

7     Crianlarich Outing: An Caisteal and Beinn a’ Chroin   

Tyndrum to Inveroran   

8     Hill Crossing: the Back of Beinn Dorain   

9     Inveroran Outing: Ben Inverveigh and Meall Tairbh   

Inveroran to Kings House   

10     Hill Crossing: Black Mount   

Kings House to Kinlochleven   

11     Hill Crossing: Beinn a’ Chrulaiste and the Blackwater   

Kinlochleven to Fort William   

12     Hill Crossing: Mamores   

13     Hill Crossing: More Mamores   

14     Fort William Outing: Ben Nevis by the CMD Arête   

Part 2 Beginnerish Backpacking   

The excitement is in tents   

Midges are unpleasant   

May is the month   

Shoulder-strengthening short trips   

The off-route food-fetching formula   

Stuff, stuffsacks, and throwing it all away   

15     A mostly gentle two-day: the Back of Ben Nevis   

16     A wilder two-day: Taynuilt to Bridge of Orchy

Part 3 Away from the Way

17     Dumbarton Start

18     Wrong side of the Loch: the Arrochar Alps   

19     The Etive Trek   

20     Blackwater and the Lairig Leacach   

21     Routes of Rannoch 

Part 4 Roads to the Deep North   

22     Corrour to Dalwhinnie   

23     Fort William to Inverie   

24     Spean Bridge to Cluanie and even Cape Wrath   

Appendix 1:     Access   

Appendix 2:     Useful information   

Appendix 3:     Further reading

 
 
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