Wild Roots Highland Guiding

Name: Wild Roots Highland Guiding
Address: Roybridge, GB
Telephone: +447720398642
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Wild Roots Guiding offer year round mountain guiding in the Scottish Highlands. Join us to escape the every day and take a walk on the wild side.

We specialise in skills courses, wild camping journeys and wilderness adventures. The journeys cover a variety of terrain, from low level paths to rugged mountain tops. Whether these are your first steps into the mountains or you are a seasoned hill walker we have something for you. Each journey is carefully curated to experience a variety of natural and human history first hand in breathtaking settings. Our approach is inquisitive. If you often find yourself looking at your surroundings and thinking ‘I wonder why…’ then our journeys are for you. We take the time to stop, observe and understand as we walk through wild places. Aiming to give you knowledge and skills to take away to inspire your own adventures. Please see our website for more information: www.wildrootsguiding.scot

18/10/2026

Wild Mountain Retreat 2026 👌🏻

We paid attention
We were astonished
We will tell about it with words in time
For now the images can paint a pretty beautiful picture.

📷 Quote - Mary Oliver 🙏🏻

17/10/2026

Contender for best day ever at work 👌🏻

Epic sunrise, summit breakfast, three swims, beautiful forest, wall to wall sunshine, wonderful folk, heart full.

I’ve been coming here for work and play for almost a decade and still there are new places to discover. Corrour you have more than a little piece of my heart.

13/10/2026

You’re going to have to buck the trend to have the patience for this one!

Thanks for all your great comments on my previous post on this subject. It was really interesting to hear folks thoughts and especially to see this is a trend happening not just in the UK but overseas as well.

Like many of you I think this issue is much more nuanced than simply a matter of more people in the hills. Sadly, i suspect it is indicative of a wider shift in how we think and behave.

Turns out it’s hard to write succinctly about this as so many of the issues are circular but here’s an attempt…

You’ll have to buck the trend and have some patience for reading to take this one in fully 😅

Jumping in at the deep end 🤿

20 years ago a route like Ben Nevis via the CMD Arête would be hard won, aspirational. You might be several years into your hill walking exploits before someone in the pub mentioned it in the context of ‘maybe you’re ready to give this a go’.

Now a route like this is often the first thing that draws people to the hills, having never been up a mountain before they go straight for the hardest hikes. Because ‘it’s only walking’. Because ‘they did it so why can’t I?’. Because they are goal focussed and ‘content’ driven.

Are influencers to blame for this? Maybe a little but also the cultural norm for biggest to be best. For us to want to run before we can walk.

What happened to enjoying the process? To enjoying learning?

Skills gap 🧭🗺️

A direct and serious implication of ‘jumping in at the deep end’ is that many people are taking on routes that they do not have the appropriate skills and experience for.

Worse still they don’t even know that some of the skills they need even exist! Which is a shame because they are so much fun to learn. There really is a lifetime of enjoyment hiding in the simple task of learning to read a map.

It might ‘only be walking’ but somewhere along the way the message that walking on steep, rocky mountains is a bit different to strolling city streets has been lost.

The death of common sense ☠️

This is a tragedy which is widespread, especially in the younger generation who are all too used to computers doing their thinking

10/10/2026

Social media often gets all the blame but I’m not sure it’s the only culprit.

Is the rising number of people getting into trouble in our mountains simply a result of more people out in the hills or is there a more concerning shift going on?

Interested to hear your thoughts…

Mine are many and I’m working on compiling them 😅 alongside some tips and advice on how we can work together to reverse this trend!

07/10/2026

Which one would you choose? Loch, mountain, river, forest, they are all beautiful places to be.

📍Corrour Forest

📍Glen Feshie, Cairngorms

📍Loch Ossian

2027 trip dates will be out very soon. Drop us a ⛺️ below if you’d like us to let you know when you can book one 🙌🏻

Don’t worry there won’t be any shivering in the super cosy Rab sleeping bags we provide! And this only makes sense if you are listening to the song 😅

30/09/2026

I lay on my back, in the landscape.

Beneath me a cushion of heather, moss and lichen. Sweet smelling earth. Above a bright blue sky masked by high whispy cirrus being whipping along by on the wind.

And suddenly, a rainbow.

Over me crept a deep sense of peace.

A moment so simple. So important. So good.

29/09/2026

Help us reach the folk that need us most 🍁🍂⛰️🧘🏻‍♂️

Our autumn retreats are great for everyone but especially perfect for anyone needing to escape the city for a while and remember the goodness of spending time in nature.

Help us out and send this to your stressed city folk pals 🙏🏻 They will thank you for it!

27/09/2026

Oh my the sun did shine.

I don’t think the Londoners on this weekends trip quite believed me and Siobhan Isobel when we kept harping on about how this was the most sunshine we’ve seen all summer.

But it was true! And it was magic 👌🏻

Yoga and mountains really are a wonderful combination. More thoughts on that soon 🧘🏽‍♀️

24/09/2026

A little ray of sunshine 🌤️

A super fun day out on a couple of Ben Nevis classics. Up Tower Ridge and down Ledge Route with Connor - Atlas Mountaineering .

Would you brave the gap? 👀👀 at 📹 #3

We both agreed we are pretty lucky that this is our playground 👌🏻 I don’t think it’s possible to tire of adventures on this mountain.

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Roybridge

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+447720398642

Website

https://www.wildrootsguiding.scot/book-now

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