Loch Ness · Guide
Urquhart Castle: Go Early, Or Don't Bother
Turn up at midday and it's a car park full of coaches and a ruin that's over too fast. Turn up at 9.30 and it's the best half hour on Loch Ness.
6 min read
North & Ness
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History & Heritage
Battlefields, castles, forts, and the stories behind them.
Day trips · Feature
Fyrish Monument: The Day We Climbed Above the Clouds
A misty morning turned into one of the best views I've had in the Highlands — plus what I wish someone had told us about that climb before we set off up Cnoc Fyrish.
5 min read
Day trips · Feature
Steall Waterfall: The Two Hundred Metres We Nearly Turned Back On
An icy December climb through the Nevis Gorge nearly turned us around, a couple of hundred metres from a waterfall we couldn't yet see. Here's the honest version of the walk to Scotland's second-highest falls — cliffside path, wobbly bridge and all.
6 min read
Inverness · Feature
Craig Phadrig: The Forest With No Wrong Way Through
A wooded hill on Inverness's western edge holds a fort that's over two thousand years old — but the real pull, evening after evening, is the tangle of paths that gets you there.
5 min read