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Scotland - Long Distance Footpaths - Descriptions of a selection of long distance footpaths including The West Highland Way.

Scotlands Mountains - A couple of photo galleries on Scotland

Tramping Trip Reports - A selection of walks and photographs of Scotland. Munros climbed include Ben Nevis, the Aonach Eagach ridge, the Mamore Range, Ben Lui, Cairngorm, Bidean nan Bian and the Five Sisters of Kintail.

Scotland - Walks, with maps and photographs from the north of Glasgow, Callander, Glencoe, Skye, Wester Ross and Sutherland.

NCR Hillwalking and Climbing Club - Based in Dundee, Scotland, the club organises trips to the hills and mountains. Contains information on routes.

Digital Photography - Digital photography and walking in Scotland.

Walking in Perthshire - The Strathearn area of Perthshire offers the walker a wide variety of rambles.

Walking in Scotland - Walks in Glencoe with maps, photographs and links to accommodation and other resources .

High Scotland - Visit Scotland's highest points from the comfort of your own seat. Munro Bagging on the Web. Virtual Munros.

The Great Outdoors Challenge - An annual non-competitive walking event across the Highlands of Scotland, west coast to east coast, sponsored by TGO magazine.

Walking and Climbing - Practical information for walking in Scotland from munro routes to low level family walks.

Walks in Caithness - Walk descriptions and local walking groups. Includes links to related resources .

The Arrochar Alps. - Informative site about this range of mountains in the Southern Highlands of Scotland. Includes walk descriptions and photographs.

Scotland - Hiking in the Cuillin Mountains of the Isle of Skye and drinking the distilled spirits of Scotland.

The Speyside Way - All up to the minute information about the Speyside Way Long Distance Route, from the Moray Council. Includes comprehensive accommodation list and public transport guide.

Walking Scotland - A guide to walking, hillwalking and hiking around Scotland. Includes online OS maps, downloadable documentation and 100's of pictures taken during the detailed walks.

Five Best Walks in Scotland - Phil's most memorable days out in the hills in Scotland. Diaries, photos and maps.

Cateran Trail - All about a new 60-mile waymarked circular trail in the heart of Scotland. Information, maps, services and photos. Flash.

The Scottish Rights of Way and Access Society - Preserve land access for walkers, cyclists, horseriders and other countryside users .

Walking the Watershed - Complete text and illustrated version of this book which describes a walk from the border to Cape Wrath along Scotland's great divide. By Dave Hewitt .

Walking Wild - Guide to walking, climbing and rambling in Scotland's mountains and glens. Includes information on routes, access, accommodation, walking holidays and travel.

Local Walks - Personal account of walks in the Sidlaw Hills which lie to the north of Dundee . Includes maps, descriptions and photographs.

Ayrshire Paths - Offering general information about Ayrshire, visitor activities, map and path search facilities. Contact and related links included.

An Sgòrr - Descriptions of walking routes in the Scottish Mountains. Catalogued as Munros, Corbetts, Grahams and Donalds. Tabular lists with map references and general information included.

The Tartan Tammy - A guide to hill walking in Scotland. Listing routes, pictures and related information.

Walk Aberlady - An easy walk in Aberlady Bay Local Nature Reserve, South East Scotland, with birdlife, wildlife, and even a submarine wreck.

Walking the Southern Upland Way - Information about walking the coast to coast long distance footpath in Southern Scotland.

Lednock Millenium Footpath - Information site on a project to build a footpath suitable for all in Comrie, Perthshire, including wheelchair users and young families with prams.

Connery Scottish Walks - Hillwalking in and around Scotland's countryside from Glens to lochs from hills to Scottish Mountains.

Hiking Guide to Scotland - An illustrated guide to the mountains of Scotland from the Isle of Skye to the hills of Drumochter.

Walk Scotland - Online magazine for everyone who loves walking, backpacking, climbing and mountainbiking. Includes news, tips, ski reports and photographs.

Colin McPherson - Pictures and descriptions of trips hillwalking in Scotland

Walking in Scotland with Russell Lees - Description and pictures of walks in Scotland.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Walking Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Walking Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Walking There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Walking If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. -- Hyman Rickover If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Walking Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Walking Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -- Plutarch There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Walking Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry Walking "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait Walking If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Walking "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Walking Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein Walking "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Walking Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Walking Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Walking "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Walking "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Walking It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Walking There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Walking The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Walking Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Walking A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Walking
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