Cicerone Scotland's Mountain Ridges Guidebook

Ridges are epic. Graceful carved walkways slung between summits, twisted spines of stone - these can be the most beautiful of mountain landforms. With elegant lines and giddy exposure, ridge climbs emit a powerful siren call, drawing us out onto the rocks. Life on the edge has a special quality, born of the contrast of empty space all around, and intricate detail in close-up. The crests are strangely irresistible. Scotland's ridges are among the finest mountaineering lines in the country, every one a unique adventure. The variety of these routes reflects the breadth of the mountain experience: a rich mix of summer scrambles, technical rock and challenging winter climbs. This book covers both the popular classics and some obscure gems, aiming to celebrate these thrilling climbs as much as to document them. The chosen selection spans the grade range, with routes to suit all levels of ability. Whether an earthbound hillwalker or an accomplished climber, Scotland's ridges cannot fail to stir your imagination.

£17.99

Cicerone Pyrenean Haute Route

A lesser known trail - the Cicerone Pyrenean Haute Route is a detailed guide to 800km trek along the Franco-Spanish border, from Hendaye to Banyuls-sur-Mer. The unwaymarked route is described in 45 days, with 500 GPS waymarks, information on villages, mountain huts, guesthouses, hotels and campsites and variant routes to avoid difficult sections. Also ascents of ten classic Pyrenean summits beside the route. Best times of year to visit: July and August. August can be extremely warm and thunderstorms are an everyday hazard! In June most high mountain passes are still covered with snow but it's a good time for both the first section and, from mid-June on, the final section (if you avoid Pic Carlit). Late August and the first days of September often bring a short period of extremely bad weather but afterwards the first half of September can be exceptionally beautiful. There will be frost at night from the second half of September. Snowfall in the high mountains is not uncommon in September. Be ready for anything!

£16.00

Cicerone Walking in Mallorca

Covering a vast area, the Cicerone - Walking in Mallorca guidebook details 80 varied walking routes around the island of Mallorca, mainly in the rugged Serra de Tramuntana. Enables walkers to explore the island’s diverse terrain – from rugged mountains to remote valleys and breathtaking cliff coastlines. Ideal for walking year round, but expect to get pretty hot in summer. Over 300 sunny days per year. Climate in spring, autumn and winter gives ideal conditions.

£15.00

Cicerone Moveable Feasts

Nutrition is essential to ensure you perform at your best whilst on the hill. Moveable Feasts contains all you need to plan your camp cooking. Part one has advice on nutrition, camp cooking equipment, water, packing food, camping with children and wild foods. Part two has nearly 100 recipes for camp meals with an index highlighting high-energy, lightweight, child-friendly, vegetarian, prepare-at-home and super-quick recipes.

£14.95

Cicerone Walking in Madeira 2nd Edition

Walking in Madeira 2nd Edition by Cicerone Books offers 60 different walks for a range of different abilities and fitness. The 60 routes explore the coastline, valley paths, forests and high mountain passes. Great for really getting to see the area and all it has to offer.

£14.00

Cicerone Julian Alps Mountain Routes

This Cicerone guidebook describes over 60 walks in the Julian Alps of unspoilt Slovenia. The walks are organized around five bases – Kranjska Gora, Bovec, Kobarid, Bled and Bohinj. The routes in the Julian Alps range from easy valley walks and rougher forest trails to high-mountain protected routes and multi-day treks. Ideal for the following seasons: Mid-June to end September is ideal: weather is at its best (but beware thunderstorms) and mountain huts are likely to be open.

£14.00

Cicerone Cycle Touring in France

The Cicerone - Cycle Touring in France guide covers eight one- or two-week cycle tours and offers cyclists of all levels a taste of France’s diverse landscapes and superb scenery. Covering some of the most picturesque parts of Brittany, Picardy, Alsace, Auvergne/Languedoc, Provence, Dordogne/Lot, the Alps and the Pyrenees. Ideal for the following seasons - Late spring to early autumn recommended. Summer hot, mostly dry. Winters can be cold, with snow.

£14.00

Cicerone Cycle Touring in Spain

The Cicerone Cycle Touring in Spain Guidebook covers eight 1-2 week cycle routes through the Pyrenees and Picos de Europa in the north, the Sierras of Demanda, Gredos and Guadarama in central Spain, and the Sierras of Nevada and Grazalama and the Serrania de Ronda in the South. Varying in difficulty, with options to shorten or lengthen stages or go off-road. This book is ideal for year round cycling, depending upon how much heat you can cope with!

£14.00

Cicerone Everest A Trekkers Guide

One of the most beautiful and unspoilty areas in the world, this Cicerone guidebook covering Everest and the Khumbu region of Nepal, one of the great trekking regions. The guidebook includes all the main trekking routes, including from Lukla (and Jiri) to Namche, and routes to Thame, Gokyo, Thangboche, Lobuche, Kala Pattar and Everest Base Camp. Includes the route in Tibet from Tingri to the North side and Rongbuk monastery/glacier. Great for the following seasons: Pre-monsoon (March-May) and post-monsoon (October to late November) are ideal. Monsoon and winter treks are possible, but much more difficult.

£14.00

Cicerone Tour of Mont Blanc

This second edition guidebook to the Tour of Mont Blanc, (170km, 105 miles) is a classic walk circumnavigating the Mont Blanc massif in about eleven days. The guide follows an established route around the massif, taking the walker into France, Switzerland and Italy. The tour is described in both anti-clockwise and clockwise directions. Ideal for the seasons - Views of the Mont Blanc range and its glaciers; mountain huts; views from Le Brévent; Mont Blanc tramway; Chamonix

£12.95

Cicerone The Cairngorms: Walks, Trails and Scrambles Guidebook

In over 100 walks this first Cicerone walking guide to the Cairngorms explores the region's 23 Munro summits and also the smaller viewpoint hills outside the main range. For the adventurous there are the best of the area's rocky scrambles, and the classic through-routes used by cattle-drovers and Queen Victoria. For others there are easy, sandy trails wandering among the tall pines and along the banks of the great rivers Spey, Nethy and Dee. Britain's biggest mountain range is special in several ways. There's the granite plateau, and an Arctic ecosystem of gravel, boulders and late-lying snow. There are the glacial glens and high corries, where green lochans lie below great crags of the plateau rim. And at the hill foot grows the ancient Caledonian forest. Along with the main Cairngorm range between Speyside and Deeside the book covers Lochnagar. It complements Cicerone's winter climbing guide to the region.

£12.95

Cicerone Walking on the Isle of Arran

This Cicerone guide details 45 walks which shows the Isle of Arran as being ideal for walking with its mountain ranges, moorlands and forests to its coastline and dramatic cliffs, as well as the island’s rich historical heritage. Also includes walks on nearby Holy Isle. Many routes overlap, allowing opportunites to create longer walks throughout the island.

£12.95

Cicerone The GR10 Trail

The Cicerone Guide to the GR10 Trail details walking across the Pyrenees from Atlantic to Mediterranean. Taking 50 days to complete and divided here into sections tackled in a fortnight's holiday, with details of accommodation and transport. The GR10 is one of a number of official long-distance paths (Grandes Randonnées) in France. Ideal for early June through to the end of September, although care should be taken over high passes early in season. High season July and August.

£12.95

Cicerone Walking in Provence

Covering 42 walks in Provence, southern France, Europe. Detailing the Alps Maritimes, Var, Vaucluse and northern Provence, the suggested walks are of short and medium length, and the descriptions include all the practical information required for an enjoyable trip. Ideal seasonal visit - Year-round possibilities, although the winter can be cold, especially when the ‘Mistral’ blows. Spring and autumn are the rainy seasons, with some violent thunderstorms in autumn. Summer can be very hot.

£12.95

Cicerone Via Ferratas Italian Dolomites: Southern Dolomites Vol.2 Guidebook

This is the second in a series of two guidebooks to Via Ferratas of the Italian Dolomites. (Volume One covers the eastern, northern and central areas of the Dolomites, while Volume Two completes the picture, focusing on the southern, Brenta and Lake Garda areas.) Book Two documents Via Ferrata routes in the major mountain ranges of Civetta, Schiara and Pala as well as those to the west in the Brenta. A significant addition (and, as far as we are aware, not previously published in any English language guidebook) is the inclusion of routes around the northern end of Lake Garda and the Piccole Dolomites north of Vicenza. Here, the mountains are generally lower and you can enjoy ferrata climbing over a much extended season, with some routes accessible for most of the year.

£12.95

Cicerone Tour of the Jungfrau

Acclaimed guidebook author, Kev Reynolds details a Tour of the Jungfrau in this cicerone book. Second edition of a guidebook to trekking the Tour of the Jungfrau (Schynige Platte to Wilderswil) hut-to-hut in the Swiss Alps - already one of the classic walks of Europe. The trek takes the walker through the Bernese Oberland’s most spectacular mountain scenery, in the shadow of such iconic peaks as Wetterhorn, Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. Ideal for the following seasons: late June to end of September with all facilities open July to August, but trails busier and prices higher; September is recommended.

£12.00

Cicerone Walking the Munros: Northern Highlands and the Cairngorms Vol.2 Guidebook

This second volume of a two-part series of guides to the Munros detailing the routes to 145 Munros in the Cairngorms and northern highlands (north of the Great Glen). A comprehensive introduction indicates the history of the Munros and includes vital information to make your quest as successful as possible. It includes detailed route descriptions around each of the 145 Munros (all the popular routes included), with sketch map for each route. All routes are prefaced by a wealth of information about Gaelic names, accommodation and access. Useful feature is the 10-figure grid refererences for key points such as summits and start point of awkward descent lines. It includes travel and other information on making the most of your walks and your stay in the area. An appendix listing all the Munros covered in the guide is also present. It features outstanding full-colour photography, and a hard-wearing, waterproof PVC cover. Part of a two-part series; volume 1 covers the southern Munros.

£12.00

Cicerone The Way of St James - Santiago

Sometimes referred to as - The Way of St James – Spain Pyrenees–Santiago–Finisterre. This guide book covers 778km Pilgrim Road from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in the foothills of the Pyrenees on the French side to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain and finally to the 'end of the earth' at Finisterre on the Galician coast. This route can get very hot around May to July but this is when this trip is at its best scenery wise.

£12.00

Cicerone Walks Picos De Europa

The guidebook Cicerone Walks Picos de Eurpoa has walks and climbs in this Spanish region, a limestone range to the north of the central section of the Cordillera Cantabrica, on the northern Atlantic shore of Spain, Europe. Routes divided into two main groups: valley-based and mountain, of all grades. With background information such as geology, flora, fauna and history. An ideal guide for Walking and climbing from May to late October. Depending on snowfall the season might extend well into November. Ice-axe and crampons to be carried early and late in the season. Winter mountaineering best from February to April.

£12.00

Cicerone The Hillwalkers Manual

This book covers all areas of hill walking, equipment, safety, navigation, survival and photography. This guidebook contains information on organisations, the hill environment, weather and nature in the hills. This is a great wee book for those looking to start hillwalking and those looking to work on the skills they already have.

£12.00

Cicerone Walking in the Hebrides

The Cicerone guide to 50 walking routes throughout Scotland's Hebrides, or Western Isles, including Arran, Jura, Islay, Colonsay, Mull, Coll, Tiree, Muck, Eigg, Rhum, Canna, Skye, Barra, Beenbecula, the Uists, Harris, St Kilda and Lewis. This guide is very factful an provides both Geographical and historic information.

£12.00

Cicerone Backpacker's Britain - Northern Scotland (volume 3)

For those looking for a little adventure without hitting the airport. The Cicerone - Backpacker's guide of Northern Scotland covers trips varying from 2,3 and 5 days. including 30 multi-day backpacking routes in northern Scotland’s highlands and islands. Routes take walkers along rugged coastlines from the Shetland Islands to the Rough Bounds of Knoydart, and across mountain ridges from northern Skye to Glen Affric. This guide is suitable for the following seasons: January to March most routes snow-bound. April to June and September to December ideal. July and August bring plagues of midges!

£12.00

Cicerone Central and Southern Scottish Highlands

A guide to backpacking in the Central and Southern Highlands of Scotland, with 30 trekking routes – ranging from 2 to 7 days in length - over the highest peaks in Britain. And these wild mountains, rocky coasts and long, winding glens are all within a couple of hours’ drive of Edinburgh or Glasgow.

£12.00

Cicerone The Way of St James - Le Puy to the Pyrenees

A Cicerone Guide to walking to the 740km Pilgrim Road from Le Puy-en-Velay in central France to the Pyrenees. The only original guidebook to this route in English, making The Way of St James - Cicerone Guide a one-off! Gives directions for walking the route and also provides information on places to visit along the way, the history of the pilgrimage and the availability of practical facilities.

£12.00

Cicerone Climbing in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas

Climbing in the Anti-Atlas offers routes on crags on the south side of Jebel el Kest, 120km south-east of Agadir and close to the oasis town of Tafroute. Here the superb rock conditions on the pink quartzite rock of Jebel provide excellent rock climbing of up to 500 metres in height in all grades. This guide gives comprehensive coverage of approximately 25 crags, mostly unexplored by any climber. However, it is not a place for the novice. Many of the crags are complex, and route finding can be difficult. Descents occasionally involve abseils and down-climbing in exposed situations. The weather is rarely inclement and, even when it is, it is unlikely to involve electrical storms.

£12.00

Cicerone Map and Compass Instruction Book

A practical guide to learning or improving your navigation with a map and a compass. This book is aimed at the beginner to the world of walking as well as those who have been using map and compasses for a while but would like to improve. Using plenty of diagrams, OS and Harvey Maps to illustate points in the text, this book takes you logically through the various stages necessary to learning map and compass skills thoroughly. The book includes a look at GPS systems and computer-based mapping programmes. It closes with suggestions for practicing your new found skills.

£12.00

Cicerone Walking in Croatia

Walking in Croatia by Cicerone books offers a range of walks in varying degrees of difficulty in some of Croatia's most beautiful regions. Single day and multi-day treks are listed in this guidebook.

£12.00

Cicerone Scotland's Far West

The Cicerone Guidebook to 34 mountain walks in Scotland's far-west peninsula and the island of Mull provides beautifully detailed trails as well as important information essential to making your trip a happy one!

£10.00

Cicerone Ochils, Campsie Fells, and Lomond Hills Guide

The Cicerone guide to the Ochils, Campsie Fells and Lomond Hills, offers a fantastic guide to some of Scotland's most accessible hills. There are 33 different walks over the different areas, with maps and pictures to guide you along your way. The majority of these walks are circular routes, ensuring that you can have easy access to and from the walks, and always end up back at your car at the end of it.

£10.00

Cicerone The West Highland Way Guidebook

This second edition of the popular guide to the West Highland Way provides an updated and current description of the route from Milngavie, Glasgow, to Fort William. The 95 miles (152km) of the route, which was opened in 1980, passes through the lowlands to the highlands, accompanied by the bucolic splendour of the glens flanked by great mountains, the loveliness of Loch Lomond and the wild remoteness of Rannoch Moor.

£10.00

Cicerone Scotland's Far North

This guide provides invaluable information and detail to some of the 62 mountain walks in Scotland’s north-west peninsula, north of Ullapool. Mainly day walks, taking in peaks such as Suilven, Quinag, Morven and Scaraben, with three longer mountain traverses.

£10.00

Cicerone Border Country Cycling

The Cicerone - Border Country Cycle Routes is a guide to those keen to cycle in SE Scotland and NE England in the Northumberland National Park and the Southern Uplands. Detailing 40 circular cycle routes which vary in length from 15 to well over 40 miles. Most have off-road sections, and they vary in difficulty from easy to more demanding mountain routes. They offer a blend of isolation and charm.

£9.00

Cicerone Navigation Mini-Guide

The Navigation Mini-Guide by Cicerone Books, offers a practical guide to helping you to aquire and tone the skills needed for navigating when out walking. This guide offers all that you need to know in order to give you enough information to successfully navigate in areas unknown.

£8.99

Cicerone Snow Guide

The Cicerone 'Snow Guide' is aimed at walkers, climbers and snowsport enthusiasts who want to acquire or improve their knowledge of snow and avalanche release. It is equally suitable for snow professionals, guides, mountaineering and snowsport instructors, and ski patrollers and makes a great gift for those who love the white stuff. This book details the formation and evolution of snow, and shows practical methods for examining and analysing snow cover. It illustrates how to identify the many forms which snow may take and how to assess avalanche risk more precisely and reliably… It includes a system of snow observation and a handy snow crystal card for identifying crystals in the snow layer.

£7.99