[Closed] Recommend me a book to inspire me to go mountain walking in Scotland

[url= https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14610590-hell-of-a-journey ]Hell of a Journey - on foot through the Scottish Highlands[/url] is a good read, especially sat in front of a roaring fire with a glass of whisky beside you.

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[url= http://www.cicerone.co.uk/product/detail.cfm/book/442/title/scotland#.VmhsGum14j4 ]Scotland[/url] by Cicerone books, quite a hefty book but one that i often pick up and marvel at the areas i will never get to explore 😀

The First Fifty by Muriel Gray. Read it years ago but fair enjoyed it, quite humorous.

100 Best Routes on Scottish Mountains
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Exploring Scottish Hilltracks

Both by Ralph Storer.

Hell of a Journey - on foot through the Scottish Highlands is a good read, especially sat in front of a roaring fire with a glass of whisky beside you.

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Scotland by Cicerone books, quite a hefty book but one that i often pick up and marvel at the areas i will never get to explore

The first might be a good read on Kindle

the second looks like a good option

The First Fifty by Muriel Gray. Read it years ago but fair enjoyed it, quite humorous

I should reread that its full of ideas

Exploring Scottish Hilltracks

I have that and have used it to plan a long ride, thanks

100 Best Routes on Scottish Mountains

In the right area but I'm looking for more phots

thank you all

any more ideas

The Cicerone Scottish [u]Ridges[/u] one is quite good.

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s1762 ]Bothy Life on BBC Scotland t'night.[/url]

Have you looked at some of the drone footage now available on Youtube?

These three aren't all mountains but are still pretty inspiring

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Photos will only show you: A) what you would have seen if the weather was better or B) that professional photographers are better at taking pictures than you!

If you want inspiration for the whole experience of Scottish walking, rather than just the view I suggest that whilst written over twenty years ago "the first fififty" by murial gray is entertaining rather than a dull history or guide book.

Not a book but Is "The Angry Corrie" still going? Was a great read..

The first third of hell of a journeys greAt.

He then seemed to lose enthusiasm for writing and it turned into and i did this i did that list- it kind of conincided with when in the book he lost enthusiasm for the journey

Disapointed as it had so much promise in the start.

My favorite acottish mountain book to date is cairngorm john. It was an excellent read and just made me itch to get out into the cairngorms. It also drives home a very important message.

I got a little bored as above with Hell of a Journey.
Although a little older Hamish's Mountain Walk I think is a better read and as it is done through the year rather than just winter is a bit more uplifting and inspiring.

[quote=BigR ]Although a little older Hamish's Mountain Walk I think is a better read and as it is done through the year rather than just winter is a bit more uplifting and inspiring.Good recommendation. And written before HB turned into a [s]fascist[/s] moany auld git 🙂

If photos inspire you then look at some of the many landscape photography books. Colin Prior is a good example. While looking at the photos read Always a little further by Alastair Borthwick old but imo full of inspiration or Mountain days and Bothy Nights which is not particularly old has drawings not photos but is bloody funny

Great suggestions

sadly I can't find Munro bagging without a beard on kindle

leaning towards Scotland by Cicerone at the moment

Thanks

John

Oh and the videos are great, we'll watch more later

The Big Walks

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Big-Walks-Challenging-Scrambles/dp/0906371600

The High Mountains of Britain and Ireland: A Guide for Mountain Walkers:
by Irvine Butterfield

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1898573638/ref=sr_ob_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449692393&sr=1-1

Mountain Bike Scotland by Kenny Wilson?

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Mountain Bike Scotland by Kenny Wilson?

😆 Harsh 😆

My suggestion, if limited to one - Nan Shepherd's [i]The Living Mountain[/i]

^The Big Walks by Ken Wilson and A.N.Other. British Isles, but mostly and rightly centred around Scotland. It's the coffee table book that captured my imagination 30 years ago in my early twenties, led on to many winter climbing trips in Scoltand and summers in the Alps (even taking our mtbs long before mtbing in the alps became popular).

There are loads. The ones that I like most are the Scottish Mountaineering Council's Munros and Corbetts books. I'm pretty sure that they have some area specific ones which have a bit more detail. Cameron McNeish has written some good books too.

Get hold of Robert Macfarlane's books and read those, he's written one about mountain climbing, and others about walking and exploring remote places in the UK; tremendously inspiring writer.