Scotland

Schiehallion and the Weight of the World

It’s 250 years ago this year that Mr Charles Hutton did some very difficult sums and also came up with the contour line.

Jan 14 • Ronald Turnbull

Bacterial sludge: Stromatolites

A tale of two planet-destroying organisms [1700 words 7 mins

Nov 5, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Scotland's Mountains

Celebrating my 100th Substack post with a words-and-pictures gallery of my home hills

Oct 29, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Celebrating the Cairngorms

Preparing the final reprint for my 2008 Cairngorms guidebook [800 words 4 min

Jun 18, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Birders of Ben Macdui

Social observations on the snow bunting [1600 words, 7 mins

Mar 19, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

The Tertiary Volcanic Province

where else in the UK would you go for your hilly holidays? [1400 words 6 mins

Jan 8, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Jamie Dodd of the Muir

A story of the Southern Uplands [1600 words 7 mins

Dec 4, 2024 • Ronald Turnbull

Leadership contest AD1306: Badenoch brutally eliminated...

Hillwalking meets high politics in southwest Scotland [1500 words 7 mins

Oct 9, 2024 • Ronald Turnbull

Beauty and the Bog

On Friday Sutherland’s Flow Country achieved UNESCO World Heritage status [1100 wprds. 5 min

Jul 30, 2024 • 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

Jul 24, 2024 • Ronald Turnbull

A Weight of Beauty

Mountaineer WH Murray crosses Rannoch Moor. And I do too. [1400 words, 7 mins

Jul 17, 2024 • Ronald Turnbull

The Black Loch of the Beast

Short story about winter climbing in Scotland [2500 words, 12 min]

Feb 21, 2024 • Ronald Turnbull

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