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Bacterial sludge: Stromatolites
A tale of two planet-destroying organisms [1700 words 7 mins
 • Ronald Turnbull
Scotland's Mountains
Celebrating my 100th Substack post with a words-and-pictures gallery of my home hills
 • Ronald Turnbull
Celebrating the Cairngorms
Preparing the final reprint for my 2008 Cairngorms guidebook [800 words 4 min
 • Ronald Turnbull
Birders of Ben Macdui
Social observations on the snow bunting [1600 words, 7 mins
 • Ronald Turnbull
The Tertiary Volcanic Province
where else in the UK would you go for your hilly holidays? [1400 words 6 mins
 • Ronald Turnbull
Jamie Dodd of the Muir
A story of the Southern Uplands [1600 words 7 mins
 • Ronald Turnbull
Leadership contest AD1306: Badenoch brutally eliminated...
Hillwalking meets high politics in southwest Scotland [1500 words 7 mins
 • Ronald Turnbull
Beauty and the Bog
On Friday Sutherland’s Flow Country achieved UNESCO World Heritage status [1100 wprds. 5 min
 • Ronald Turnbull
Galloway: it's not somewhere in Ireland...
Last Monday the Scottish Government nominated my patch of ground to become our third national park. [1400 words, 6 mins
 • Ronald Turnbull
A Weight of Beauty
Mountaineer WH Murray crosses Rannoch Moor. And I do too. [1400 words, 7 mins
 • Ronald Turnbull
The Black Loch of the Beast
Short story about winter climbing in Scotland [2500 words, 12 min]
 • Ronald Turnbull
Coire na Caime, Liathach
Scotland's poet Hugh MacDiarmid has written about Liathach in a verse that embraces the mountain in all its peculiar sandstone grimness. [900 words, 4…
 • Ronald Turnbull
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