■ Distance: 6½ miles/10.5km ■ Time: 4-5 hours ■ Grade: Challenging

Our walks th is month 1 Quiraing Isle ...

The new year is here, so let’s make it an adventurous one. TGO is starting as we mean to go on – no, not with a listicle (!) but with our pick of high and wild places to get you excited and keep you inspired throughout 2026

Guess where we went last summer? A two-week tour that took in the UK’s first Dark Sky Park, also its largest forest, the world’s smallest post office, the First World War’s largest munitions factory,

■ Distance: 5 miles/8.2km ■ Time: 4 hours ■ Grade: Challenging

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