The Scottish Glens 5 - The Glens of Argyll

Peter Koch-Osborne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2004
Cicerone Press (Verlag)
978-1-85284-226-0 (ISBN)

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This guidebook covers walking and mountain-biking routes in Scotland's Argyle - split into Lorn, Oban and Inveraray, Loch Awe and Cowal, Knapdale and Kintyre and describing link routes between them. One of a popular series of 9 guidebooks for walkers and mountain-bikers, using paths and tracks amid superb scenery in Scotland's wild glens. The aim of this series is to provide the mountain-biker and walker with information on an intended route so they know something of what to expect. One of the problems is that OS maps give no indication as to whether an 'other road' is metalled, a path or a forest fire break, or anything inbetween. Many bridges shown on OS maps do not exist. Rivers are difficult to judge in size from the map, and a building may be anything from a pile of stones to a maintained bothy. All is revealed without removing the sense of adventure and exploration. Gradient profiles help to assess how strenuous a route is, and each hand-drawn page contains a wealth of information. The object is to save wasted leisure time and enable the armchair explorer to plan ahead or relive experiences.

Peter Koch-Osbourne has been walking and cycling in his native Yorkshire and the Lake District, and abroad in the Alps and Pyrenees, for as long as he can remember. On hiring bikes on a holiday near Aviemore with his family there was no information available other than the OS maps. Peter quickly set out to compile a guide to the tracks around the Cairngorms. The completion of the series of nine books took 10 years and he now lives in Beauly in the Highlands of Scotland where work on the last 6 or 7 books continued. Peter will soon be moving to Cumbria to be closer to family and friends and to re-visit his beloved Lakeland Hills. His writing activities have continued in the sphere of walking guides up in the Scottish Highlands but who knows what the future in Cumbria holds?

Lorn
Lorn Routes
Barcaldine Forest
Glen Creran
Glen Duror
Glen Etive
Glen Kinglass
Glen Orchy
Glen Strae
Oban to Inveraray
Oban to Inveraray Routes
Loch Nant
Glean Measham
Inverliever Forest
String of Lorn
Eredine Forest
Loch Glashan
East of Loch Awe and Cowal
East of Loch Awe and Cowal Routes
River Cononish
Glean nan Caorann
Glen Loin / Loch Sloy
Glen Kinglas (Cowal)
Glen Fyne (Loch Fyne)
Glen Shira
Ardgartan Forest
Ardgoil Forest
Glen Branter / Glen Shellish
Loch Eck
Glen Massan
Glen Fyne (Dunoon)
Knapdale and Kintyre
Knapdale and Kintyre Routes
The Crinan Canal
Knapdale Forest
Loch Garasdale
Glean Drochaide
Glen Lussa
Strone Glen

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2004
Verlagsort	Kendal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	116 x 172 mm
Gewicht	160 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Schottland
ISBN-10	1-85284-226-1 / 1852842261
ISBN-13	978-1-85284-226-0 / 9781852842260
Zustand	Neuware