Day trips · Feature
The Falls of Shin: Find the Terminal First
Salmon, woodland walks, a genuinely good café, and a parking system that isn't as obvious as it should be. Everything you need for a visit that goes right.
6 min read
North & Ness
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Walks, viewpoints, beaches, and the landscape itself.
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
Loch Ness · Feature
Dores: The Beach Everyone Stops At, and the Walk Almost No One Takes
Twenty minutes from Inverness, most visitors get out of the car, look at the water for ten minutes, and leave. That's the mistake.
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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