It may be getting late in the week now, but I’ve been so busy I’m only just getting round to putting up these pictures from a busy weekend of walking and cycling.
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On Sunday we had a nice family day out at Skelbo Forest near Dornoch, where there’s a great little walk – around a mile-and-a-half – through the trees and around a little burn.
I’d seen this one signposted off the A9 loads when driving (or occasionally cycling) past, and wondered what was here. It’s actually a really interesting little forest with loads of unusual carvings and great paths.
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Back home after a soggy walk up Ben Bhraggie this evening. On the way up it seemed like it would be a beautiful evening but then the heavens opened… and stayed open.
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Take a look at the new TGO for February, which includes one of my routes down in Kintail.
It’s the famous five sisters walk, which includes three Munros and – on the winter’s day we did it – some unforgettable views.
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I spent a great but tiring weekend recently in the west with Peter Evans, staying in Suardalan Bothy in Glen More, near Sheil Bridge, then in the Kintail Lodge bunkhouse.
On the Saturday we ventured up Beinn Sgritheall from its more dramatic north side, which has a much less demanding gradient than the roadside route from Arnisdale. We had a beautiful clear day – before all the snow arrived this week – so enjoyed views from the summit over the Knoydart and to the Cuillin ridge on Skye.
We walked in and out to the bothy in the pitch dark, so I’ve no idea what the route through the forest from Moyle looks like. We struggled to find the bothy late on the Friday night when we arrived, in fact. In hindsight, we should have taken a bearing from the bridge where you emerge from the forest, but thankfully there’s a wall which we followed round until we found our beds for the night.
There was no-one else there that weekend, and we found the bothy well looked after and in excellent condition. It even had some candles and firewood and coal waiting to be used. It was a cold night outside but I slept well in my down sleeping bag, and that was without us lighting the fire.
After doing Ben Sgritheall, we headed to Skye on the Sunday, to do another long walk (around 10 miles) around Elgol and above the cliffs from Camasunary.
In the lodge, we had the company of a chap who was cycling around Scotland for three months and climbing Munros as he went. And he was 60! Happy retirement – I hope I’m doing something like that when I’m 60.
John Davidson's Guide to Walking and Cycling in Inverness and the Highlands
I'm a journalist in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland who specialises in the great outdoors - including walking, cycling and mountaineering. I write a regular Active Outdoors feature for the Inverness Courier as well as contributing to other publications, including leading hillwalking magazine TGO.
