23 highland beinn a’bheithir

DRAMATIC AIRY RIDGE

SCENIC LINEAR ROUTE

Distance: 6½ miles/10.6km Time: 7-9hours Grade: Challenging ...

…it would be LIATHACH . Boisterous, delicately flavoured and fabulously moreish, this is the all-you-can-eat banquet you should sell a relative to attend. Here’s why.

Our walks this month Ian Battersby 1 ...

Over the stippled swell of the Firth of Clyde soars a gannet. A pair of long, black-tipped wings catches the late-August light as the bird tilts on the breeze. It’s on fish patrol – curving low then r