Hill walks Scotland

Imagine the world as it was. Go back millions of years, well before mankind. Imagine the mountain scenery in Scotland. Glaciers have scoured out the valleys. They have already dumped the huge boulders in the valleys you see to-day on every hill in Scotland. Earthquakes have caused huge chasms and cliff faces where rock climbers now go for sport. Earthquakes on hills in Scotland are still common even to-day. The slow weathering of the hill tops in Scotland, centimetre by centimetre, year by year, has caused the scree that runs under your feet and is so tough on your knees. It has reduced the height of the Scottish mountains to mere 4,000 foot stumps from the 14,000 feet they were once, the size of the Alps.

Yet, if you go on a hill walk in Scotland it is not difficult to view this world in Scotland exactly as it was.

To-days human existence will be tiny specks. They’ve been here only since the 10,000 years since the last Ice Age. A little dreaming and you are back in time. It will take you three hours to the big Scottish tops.

Try this. Just hill walk up little Cuil Hill opposite our cottage by Glencoe. 45 minutes to the hilltop, easy walking. Look North, South, East and West. You are looking back millions of years.