We have spent quite a bit of our lives out in the great outdoors of Scotland, whether that’s climbing, hillwalking, camping, sea kayaking, biking or just hiking and exploring. Below are a few snapshots from all those years and you can also see our recent Scottish outdoors photos
Hillwalking
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in Scotland (and Great Britain) at a relatively modest 1,345m (4,413 feet) above sea level. That said Scotland is a particularly mountainous country and the summits ‘pack a punch’ for their height providing a fantastic range of hillwalking scenery in all seasons. The mountains are often categorised by height [WalkHighlands links]:
Munros (282 summits 3,000 feet or over)
Corbetts (222 summits between 2,500 and 3,000 feet)
Fionas (219 summits between 2,000 and 2,500 feet- formerly called Grahams)
Wild camps
We have a map here of our Scottish wild camps (and bothies). Summit camps are a particular favourite!
Climbing
Some sample photos of climbing in Scotland here.
Sea kayaking
Scotland has a huge variety of coastline and islands for sea kayaking… another brief sample here….
Local
We stay on the coast of the Black Isle in north east Scotland….
Backpacking
Scotland has a number of long distance trails, many of which are maintained official routes (such as the West Highland Way) and others are documented in guidebooks or maps. The overview map above shows some of the routes in northern Scotland – key to these:
- JoGT John O Groats Trail (blog)
- Skye Trail (blog)
- WHW West Highland Way (blog)
- GGW Great Glen Way (blog)
- SLNT South Loch Ness Trail (blog)
- AKW Affric Kintail Way (blog)
- NCT North Coast Trail (a proposed route) (blog)
- MCT Moray Coast Trail (blog)
- SW Speyside Way (blog)
- DW Dava Way (blog)
- Moray Link (blog)
- CWT Cape Wrath Trail (external link)
- CWT Alt Alternative start to Cape Wrath Trail (external link)
- EHW East Highland Way (external link)
External links above are to Walkhighlands which provides a full list, map and details of long distance routes.
Note that, as is pretty obvious in the map above, you could connect these named trails together to create longer routes. Scotland is also a good place for just creating your own by looking at topo maps (eg OS Maps, Outdooractive). This could include hiking the length of Scotland north south (The Scottish National Trail is an example) or hiking west-east from say Mallaig to Montrose by making your own route up (the TGO Challenge is an event doing this each May).
A wee walk 
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