Scotland

Celebrating the Cairngorms

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

Jun 18 •

Ronald Turnbull

Birders of Ben Macdui

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

Mar 19 •

Ronald Turnbull

The Tertiary Volcanic Province

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

Jan 8 •

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

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…

Jan 3, 2024 •

Ronald Turnbull

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