The Speyside Way - Aviemore to Buckie ©
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This 65 mile trail is one of the original four officially designated long distance routes in Scotland, and also one of the family of Scotland’s Great Trails. It stays fairly close to the River Spey, a renowned salmon river, linking Aviemore in Strathspey and the Cairngorm foothills, with Buckie on the Moray Coast. There are optional spurs added from Craigellachie to Dufftown and from Ballindalloch to Tomintoul. Although it generally consists of leisurely walking, the website says that there are climbs to 300 metres on Ben Aigan to Red Sheugh. The beginning of the trail offers views south to the Cairngorms massif and the Lairig Ghru cleft and westwards towards the Monadhliath Mountains. Many whisky distilleries are situated along the route of the old Strathspey railway. In 2015 the option to begin or end the route at Newtonmore was introduced, although I opted to begin at Aviemore in line with my slightly older map.
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Speyside Way 2016
Speyside Way long distance walk from Buckie to Aviemore in North East Scotland over 4 days in September 2016. Taken using a GoPro Hero Session.
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The Speyside Way - Ballindalloch to Craigellachie - Hiking and Camping in Scotland - 4k and HD Video
The Speyside Way is a 66 mile hike from Aviemore to Buckie. I did the walk in September 2019 over 4 days, camping along the way. It was a great trip, made even better by the fantastic people I met along the way. It involved a trip to the doctors and missing out my planned hike into Tomintoul.
My third day was from Ballindalloch to Craigellachie.
Distance: 19.4km
Elevation: 150m
Burning: 2,460 calories
Time Active: 4h 10m
Steps: 25,459
The Speyside Way is one of four official Long Distance Routes in Scotland (the others are the West Highland Way, the Southern Upland Way and the Great Glen Way).
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The Speyside Way
Experience Scotland's 106km Speyside Way hiking trail from Aviemore to Buckie in only 3 minutes. I hiked this trail over four days in June 2018 and had a wonderful time. For more info and a daily blog about this and many other trails, see followingthearrows.com
Walking the Speyside Way from Aviemore to Buckie
Pictures from my long distance backpacking hike from Aviemore to Buckie, (The Speyside Way). A 66 mile hike through the Scottish Highlands, passing through the Cairngorms National Park and finishing in Aberdeenshire for my bus journey back down the coast to Aberdeen. Had to remove the music due to copyright claims so is just pictures am afraid.
Speyside Way
Aviemore to Buckie.
The Speyside Way is a long-distance path that follows the River Spey through the scenery of Banffshire, Morayshire and Inverness-shire in Scotland. The route begins in Aviemore and ends at Buckpool harbour in Buckie, some 107 kilometres away. Some choose to walk the route from Buckie to Aviemore.
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The Great Glen Way - A Walks Around Britain Special
The Walks Around Britain team focus on short walks - but every so often they like to take on a long-distance walk. Here, Andrew White walks The Great Glen Way - a 79 mile long-distance trail between Fort William and Inverness in Scotland, discovering old castles, former railway lines, stunning landscapes and the magnificent Caledonian Canal along the way.
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Scottish long distance walk through beautiful countryside, Fort William to Aviemore.
Blooming Heather on the Speyside way Scotland
Speyside way outside aviemore with the cairngorm mountains in the distance. August 2013
East Highland Way 2017
Walking trip along East Highland Way in September 2017. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Wake me up - Simply Three
Walking Land's End to John o'Groats - Impressions
This is a short film of just some of the highlights of my walk from Land's End to John o'Groats, May to July, 2017.
Rough route: Hayle - Land's End - Lizard Point - Helford - Truro - Dartmoor - Taunton - Cheddar - Chepstow - Offa's Dyke up to Chirk - Congleton - Peak District - Pennine Way - Edinburgh - Forth and Clyde canals - West Highland Way - Great Glen Way - Inverness - Wick - John o'Groats - Dunnet Head.
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The Great Glen Way is one of Scotland's classic long distance paths, from Fort William to Inverness. Walking the Great Glen Way takes you along the highland fault line, walking along the banks of Loch Lochy, Loch Oich and the famous Loch Ness.
The Great Glen Way in 3 Minutes
The Great Glen Way runs from Fort William (and the end of the West Highland Way) along the length of the Great Glen, passing Loch Lochy, Loch Oich and Loch Ness along the way. It also follows the Caledonian Canal and is a route perfect for anyone looking get into long distance walking. Enjoy this 3 minute preview of the trail!
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The Southern Upland Way in Video
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Over 200 miles long, the Southern Upland Way is the only official coast to coast walking path. Opened in 1984, it connects Portpatrick on the west with Cockburnspath on the east.
The route goes over a mixture land - moors, forests, fells and more - and in the summer of 2011 I headed off on it, to see what it was like. And I liked what I saw.
Over 18 days I walked the route, camping and staying in bothies. Well, when it wasn't too wet anyway.
This video tells the story of my journey on Scotland's most challenging official long distance footpath.
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The complete Pennine Way ©
This video is a full version of the walk. You can also find a shorter highlights version and detailed videos of the various sections of the walk including the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, Northumberland and the Scottish border at my Long Distance Walks playlist here:
I walked the Pennine Way in June /July to raise money for Crisis UK. It took 20 days to complete with rest days. I walked an average of 14.5 miles per day and stayed in a mixture of campsites, bunkhouses, youth hostels, B&Bs, finishing with a hotel. The weather was very dry and hot with only 1.5 days of rain out of 20.
The Pennine Way is a National Trail which runs 268 miles (431 km) from Edale, in the northern Derbyshire Peak District and ends at Kirk Yetholm, just inside the Scottish border. The route crosses three national parks; the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales & Northumberland, one area of outstanding natural beauty in the North Pennines and a world heritage site at Hadrian's Wall. The path runs along the Pennine hills, sometimes described as the spine of England. According to the Ramblers Association it is one of Britain's best known and toughest paths. The LDWA give the following stats for the Pennine Way: 410.6 Km (255.1 miles) length 11,345 m (37,215 ft) ascent & 893 m (2,920 ft) maximum height. A Pennine Way walker covering the entire length of the trail is obliged to navigate 287 gates, 249 timber stiles, 183 stone stiles and 204 bridges aided by 458 waymarks. Wikipedia.
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The West Highland Way - Scotland - 95 Mile Long Distance Path - Part 3
This part covers a 14 Mile walk from Rowardennan to Inverarnan and is Day 3 of our Nine Day adventure on The West Highland Way and Ben Nevis.
Strathspey's Steam Railways (past & present) by campervan [CC]
Basing ourselves at Grantown on Spey, Dougal and I head off with our Adria Twin Supreme, or by mountain bike, or by foot, exploring the Highland Railway Strathspey Line, and the Great North of Scotland Speyside Line.
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Great Glen Way (117km) + Mount Ben Nevis (1345m) | Scotland |
22-29.June.2016
walking the Great Glen Way, 117 km, from Inverness to Fort William, north-east to south-west, in Scotland. It took us a good 6 days to trek the GGW. On the 7th day, we also made a summit to Britain's highest peak, Ben Nevis (1345m) which looks over the beautiful town of Fort William, where the GGW begins/ends. Day 8, I was on my own in Glasgow spending some good 7hrs exploring the city, and dining a heavy meal at The Lauders, before catching the overnight bus back to London.
An amazing adventure in the highlands of Caledonia.
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Annandale Way guidebook 2017
Our guidebook (2017) on the Annandale Way covers one of Scotland's Great Trails from Moffat to the Solway Firth via Lochmaben or Lockerbie: © WorkHorse Video.