Glossary
Names and places
Alligin
Beinn Alligin is a Munro in the Torridon area of Wester Ross - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/torridon/Beinnalligin.shtml
Askival
Askival is one of the peaks of the Rum Cuillins, on the island of Rum off Scotland's west coast - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/corbetts/askival
Assynt
A spectacular and dramatic area in Sutherland in the north west of Scotland - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/ullapool/assynt.shtml
Ballater
Ballater is a picturesque Victorian village in the heart of Royal Deeside located in the Cairngorm National Park - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/ballater-p237851
Bennachie
Bennachie is an iconic Aberdeenshire hill, complete with an iron age fort on the summit, visible over a wide area - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
ww.walkhighlands.co.uk/aberdeenshire/bennachie
Blaven
Blaven (Bla Bheinn), one of the most magnificent mountains in Scotland; a great isolated citadel of rock on the island of Skye with fabulous views - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
/www.walkhighlands.co.uk/skye/blabheinn
Braemar
Braemar is situated in the spectacular mountain scenery at the eastern gateway to the highest mountains of the Cairngorms National Park - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/braemar-p237841
Cabrach
The Cabrach (Gaelic: A' Chabrach) is a vast high moorland, dotted with abandoned crofts amidst the wild rolling hills of the North East of Scotland. The name means "antler place" and is the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.cabrachtrust.org
Canisp
Canisp is a cone shaped mountain in the far north west of Scotland situated in the parish of Assynt with beautiful views. - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/ullapool/canisp
Conival
Conival is a Scottish Munro (mountain over 3000 ft) connected by a fine ridge to Ben More Assynt - a very rough but rewarding ascent combined with the amazing views. Conival, in the far north west of Scotland, is also the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
/www.walkhighlands.co.uk/munros/conival
Cruachan
One of the finest Munros in the southern Highlands, Ben Cruachan is the highest mountain in Argyll - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/munros/ben-cruachan
Cuillin
The Black Cuillin on the Island of Skye are the most spectacular and challenging mountains in Britain - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/skye/cuillin.shtml
Dee
Running 85 miles from its spring at Wells of Dee spring at 4000 ft. altitude on the side of Braeriach to its mouth in Aberdeen, the River Dee is one of the great salmon rivers of Scotland - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.royal-deeside.org.uk/RDsurround/riverdee.htm
Glen Clova
Glen Clova, a glen (valley) with superb mountain views and an abundance of flora and wildlife, just a short distance over the hills from Hilltrek's base in Aboyne - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
Visit Scotland website
Glencoe
Glen Coe is the most famous and perhaps most impressively dramatic of all Scottish glens, with impressive mountains on all sides - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwilliam/glencoe.shtml
Kintail
Kintail (Gaelic: Cinn Tàile) an area of mountains in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland with classic ridge walks, including the famous Five Sisters, and deep glens full of red deer. Kintila is also the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
National Trust for Scotland
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/kintail
Liathach
Rated by many mountaineers and hillwalkers as Scotland's finest mountain, Liathach is one of the Torridon Hills in north west Scotland - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/torridon/Liathach.shtml
Lochnagar
Lochnagar, with its magnificent northern corrie is one of the highest and most popular mountains in the Cairngorms- and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/cairngorms/lochnagar.shtml
Munro
A Munro is the name given to Scottish mountains over 3000 feet (914 m) high, after Sir Hugh Munro (1856–1919), a founder member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, who produced the first list of such mountains in 1891.
Find out more
www.smc.org.uk/hillwalking/munros
Rannoch
The Great Moor of Rannoch is one of the last remaining wildernesses in Europe, a beautiful outdoor space stretching out north and west from Rannoch Station and Loch Rannoch - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/perthshire/loch-rannoch.shtml
Schiehallion
In English "Fairy Hill of the Caledonians' - the well known mountain in the Scottish Central Highlands where contour lines were invented as part of an 18th century experiment to determine the mass of the earth - and the inspiration behind these Hilltrek products...
Find out more
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/perthshire/schiehallion.shtml