The 12 most important mountain navigation skills. These are all the skills needed to navigate in the hills (some of the skills overlap with each other)..

The First Aid kit that you carry on the hill should be capable of dealing with a variety of situations. Remember that in most incidents where first aid is required the need is for simple and relatively straight forward treatment.

The outdoors is where land managers make a living. It's the home of Scotland's diverse wildlife and is enjoyed by the many people who live there and visit it.

If you're planning to walk in the Scottish hills between July and October, you should take reasonable steps to find out where deer stalking is taking place and land managers should provide information to allow you to do so.

A Munro is a mountain in Scotland with a height over 3,000 ft (914.4 m). They are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet (1856–1919), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munros Tables, in 1891.

The Corbetts are peaks in Scotland that are between 2,500 and 3,000 feet (762.0 and 914.4 m),high with a relative height of at least 500 feet (152.4 m). The list was compiled in the 1920s by John Rooke Corbett, a Bristol-based climber and SMC member.

You would be amazed at how people new to hillwalking & climbing do not appreciate the difficulties they will face in the Scottish mountains. At the base it will be calm and sunny whilst at the summit, it can be 15 degrees colder and blowing a gale.

Here is a list of the things you may take for 3 season walking in the Scottish mountains. Winter conditions in the mountains require additional equipment, normally including ice-axe and crampons, plus the appropriate skills and experience.

Leave No Trace is an international program based in the USA and is designed to assist outdoor enthusiasts with their decisions about how to reduce their impacts when they hike, camp, picnic, snowshoe, run, bike, hunt, paddle, ride horses, fish, ski or climb.

There are seven principals of Leave No Trace that lead us to the following...Practice a Leave No Trace ethic: Make it hard for others to see or hear you and LEAVE NO TRACE of your visit.