WALKING ON HARRIS AND LEWIS
by
Richard Barrett
JUNIPER HOUSE, MURLEY MOSS,
OXENHOLME ROAD, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA9 7RL
About the Author
Richard Barrett first visited the Outer Hebrides in the early 1970s, before many of the smaller islands were connected to their larger neighbours by causeways and when most of the roads were single track. Having become immediately besotted, he spent most holidays walking all over the islands and for a number of years lived in North Harris, where he and his wife ran a guest house.
He spent his working life as a professional marketer with a number of multinational organisations in the UK and abroad but still found time for recreational climbing, winter mountaineering, sea kayaking and latterly cycling. Today, he's a city dweller, but still makes frequent forays to the Hebrides, reconnecting with the wilderness and catching up with old friends.
Other Cicerone guides by the author
Cycling in the Hebrides
Cycling in the Lake District
The Hebridean Way
© Richard Barrett 2015
Second edition 2015
ISBN 978 1 85284 818 7
Reprinted 2017 (with updates)
First edition 2010
Printed in China on behalf of Latitude Press Ltd.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All photographs are by the author unless otherwise credited.
Acknowledgements
My thanks go to all those who knowingly or unknowingly provided information that was invaluable in tracing routes where nothing is shown on the map, particularly those who have contributed information to the community websites on Lewis and Harris or the various hill-walking websites and blogs. Jonathan and his team at Cicerone were a delight to work with and their sound guidance made delivering the manuscript and accompanying photographs a pleasure. I also need to mention our friends David and Jessica Platt and Nigel Green, my sisters and brothers-in-law Gillian and Nigel Broad and Janice and Peter Tennant, as well as my wife Cindy and our children Eleanor and Jolyon. Thank you all for your company on the routes and your patience when being ordered about for photography. I also thank the people of Harris and Lewis for their unfailing hospitality and universal support for this book. Harris and Lewis may be the edge of the world, but they're the centre of mine.
Updates to this Guide
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Front cover: Harris Hills from Traigh Rosamol on the Sound of Taransay (Walk 4)
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