Category Archives: Trossachs

Great Trossachs Path: 4 – Ancient woodland, Roman forts and saintly mounds

6.91 miles 3h 44m ascent 233m Glen Finglas Visitor Centre-Callander A great walk. Autumn colours, good paths through woodland and moor, with views down to Loch Venachar, a disused railway through the farmland and marshes of Leny Meadows to end … Continue reading

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Great Trossachs Path: 3 – Twa Brigs, Forestry and Goats

5.56 miles 2h 31m ascent 178m Trossachs Pier-Glen Finglas Visitor Centre “There is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing” Alfred Wainwright Wet ground, wet air, wet shoes, wet jacket, and wet hair. Constant rain, heavy to start … Continue reading

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Great Trossachs Path: 1 – Glen Arklet, the Garrison and Inversnaid Falls

10.21 miles 5h 7m ascent 359m Stronachlochar-Inversnaid (and back) What would the world be, once bereftOf wet and of wildness? Let them be left,O let them be left, wildness and wet;Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Gerard Manley … Continue reading

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Three Lochs Forest Drive: a lochan and a loch

4.39 miles 1h 47min ascent 168m 4.39 miles 1h 47m ascent 168m Just two lochs for us, Reòidhte Lochan and Loch Drunkie. We had seen Loch Venachar a couple of days earlier. There is a map at the car park. … Continue reading

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Ben A’an – heaving high a forehead bare

2.6 miles 2h 53m ascent 340m The hill’s original name is thought to have been Am Binnean, or small pointed peak: a good descriptive name. But Sir Walter Scott called it Ben-An in his poem The Lady of the Lake and that … Continue reading

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Loch Katrine – the scenery of a fairy dream

13.4 miles 5h 25m ascent 373m Strochanlachar-Trossachs Pier Loch Katrine was gouged by glaciers during the last ice age, named for the ceathairne, highland robbers such as Rob Roy MacGregor who stalked its surroundings, and co-opted by Victorian engineers, who … Continue reading

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