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Links to online outdoor stuff
and within Ronald Turnbull's site
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links in red take you
outside the site
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| www.mwis.org.uk |
Mountain Weather Info Systems: mountain forecasts for Highlands, Lake District, Peak.
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| www.ldwa.org.uk |
Long Distance Walkers' Association: walks of 15 - 100 miles, mostly in England, and lots of knowledge of long-distance trails |
| www.fellrunner.org |
Fell Running Association: details of fell races in England and Wales plus a few in Scotland |
| www.sais.gov.uk/latest_forecast |
Scottish Avalanche Information Service: snow conditions and avalanche risks for Scotland's main climbing areas, December to April |
| www.winterhighland.info |
Scotland snow conditions (if any) |
| home.freeuk.net/kathmandu |
Kathmandu Trekking: the stunningly inconspicuous manufacturer of inexpensive bivvy bags |
| www.backpackinglight.co.uk |
Lightweight gear on the web, but also podcasts of outdoor characters including me |
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LINKS FOR LONG WALKS IN SCOTLAND |
| www.hostel-scotland.co.uk |
Independent hostels in Scotland |
| www.syha.org.uk |
Scottish Youth Hostels Association |
| www.mountainbothies.org.uk |
the Mountain Bothies Association: simple unlocked shelters for all who love the hills and glens and who can manage to find the places |
| www.tgochallenge.co.uk |
The Great Outdoor Challenge: annual Scotland-crossing event. The site includes a useful accommodation listing |
| www.UKCampsite.co.uk |
Campsite finder |
| www.yell.com |
Yellow pages: find businesses by geographical area. Try 'Hotels & Inns', 'Grocers and convenience stores', and 'Hostels' |
| www.travelinescotland.com |
Timetable planner for bus and train journeys in Scotland |
| www.citylink.co.uk |
Scottish Citylink: including that useful and ornamental ride from Skye to Fort William, Glencoe and Loch Lomond |
| www.firstscotrail.com |
First Scotrail. Expensive and (apart from the main line to Inverness) infrequent, but scenic, quite comfortable, and fairly reliable |
| www.nationalrail.co.uk |
UK rail journey planner |
| www.royalmail.com |
Postbus finder - daily (not Sundays) to the extreme edges of the Highlands |
| www.hillphones.info |
Several Higland estates post info here to help you avoid deer-stalking activity during the season mid-Aug to end October |
| www.outdooraccess-scotland.com |
Scotland's new access law (2005) allows responsible access to virtually all wild land (and some farmland). Details here |
| www.scotlandonline.com |
Scotland On Line, and in particular its outdoor pages, with recent and forthcoming hill happenings, recent rows with landowners, and the latest snow conditions if any. |
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READING AND WRITING ABOUT HILLS |
| www.grey-stone.co.uk |
Grey Stone Books, of Lancashire: published four of mine. More about them, and an even less flattering picture of me |
| The Angry Corrie |
Scotland's hill fanzine, provocative, irritating and funny. But the Murdo Munro strip cartoon (with his sheep pal) is better in the real-world version which costs £1 |
| www.cicerone.co.uk |
Cicerone Books: their guidebooks are small and not terribly expensive. Quality varies from perfectly ok to really rather good. If there's a Cicerone guide to where I'm going, and if that guide is to the right sort of scrambly high-altitude stuff (which isn't always made clear enough) then I'll buy it without seeing it first. But as one of their writers, I do get a discount! |
| www.themapshop.co.uk |
Maps UK and Europe (maybe Antarctica too for all I know) by post, intelligent and quick |
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FAMILY |
| www.thomasturnbull.com |
my son Thomas, including his bike ride down the west coast of the USA |
| www.claremelinsky.co.uk |
Clare Melinsky, illustrious illustrator in lino-cut, works in advertising, packaging, book publishing, the Daily Telegraph and picture postcards. Married to me. |
| st-and.ac.uk |
Prof HW Turnbull, my grandfather, has an archive of the history of mathematics named after him. And I bet your grandpa doesn't have his own website... |
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articles elsewhere |
| colwalk.html |
A Long Walk - and a Broad Stand: following Coleridge's 9-day walk round the Lake District |
| mossforce.html |
The finest piece of outdoor writing so far: Coleridge's description of Moss Force, Newlands |
| www.scotlandonline.com |
The Great Glen Way and the other monster of Loch Ness |
| www.scotlandonline.com |
An article of mine about my neighbour Joseph Thomson the African Explorer |
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Misc links |
| webwon.html |
How the web was won: technical stuff about this site for html hackers |
| index.html |
Entry page of this website (Buachaille Etive Beag) |