Date of walk: 22/8/19
All posts filed under: Ross-shire – West
Wester Ross Print Collection
Sixteen selected prints based on twenty-three days walk along the western coastline of the historic county of Ross-shire, Scotland. This beautiful and dramatic section includes Torridon, Coigach and Assynt. The walk took place in Winter and Spring 2019. Signed, limited edition prints are available from £195 Now […]
Day 300: Achnahaird to Lochan Sal – Northern Luminance
Date of walk: 5/6/19
Day 299: Reiff to Achnahaird – The Peaks of Assynt
Date of walk: 4/6/19 I’m heading into Coigach and Assynt, where the isolated mountains of Suilven and Quinag rise steeply from flat moorland like totems in the landscape. For three nights in a row, sunset appears with a luminous intensity as I’ve never seen before. […]
Day 297: Ullapool to Culnacraig – the Postie’s “Path”
Date of walk: 2/6/19 I thought I’d seen it all by now, but the postman’s “path” to Culnacraig passes over some of the steepest ground I’ve yet encountered. If there weren’t a path to lure me onwards, I’d have turned back. I later found out […]
Day 296: Coire nan Cnaimhean to Ullapool – beside Loch Broom
Date of walk: 22/4/19 Feeling lightheaded, angry and exhausted after seven hours toiling over the pathless moors, I’m frustrated to find I’ve only progressed 10km in all that time. My last bag of rations for this eighteen-day section is down to half a broken oak […]
Day 295: Badrallach to Coire nan Cnaimhean – The Scoraig Peninsula
Date of walk: 21/4/19 >
Day 294: Rubha na Moine to Badrallach – Little Loch Broom
Date of walk: 20/4/19
Day 293: Greenstone Point to Rubha na Moine – Anthrax Island
Date of walk: 19/4/19 I have a sinister night’s sleep tonight, having pitched my tent opposite Gruinard Island, where in 1942, biological warfare tests using Anthrax took place. In 1990, after 48 years of quarantine, the island was deemed safe, and the warning signs were […]
Day 292: Aultbea to Greenstone Point – Wildfire & Submarine Nets
Date of walk: 18/4/19 “They say when the Arctic convoy was here, you could walk from one side of the loch to the other there were so many ships”, a dog walker in Aultbea tells me. Judging by his attuned bearing, I ask if he’s […]
