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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Garsbheinn, Sgurr na Stri and Camasunary (Walk 2.17)

In compiling the original edition of this book, colleagues in what is now the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild (see www.owpg.org.uk) were generous with their assistance: Dr Rennie McOwan, for advice on access in Scotland; Kevin Walker, for permission to use extracts from his book Safety on the Hills; and Alan Hall, for help when my memory was floundering.

Gerry Ackroyd, Team Leader of the Skye Mountain Rescue Association, and proprietor of Cuillin Guides in Glen Brittle, read all of the walks text for me, and gave highly-valued advice and suggestions, all of which I used.

Paul and Grace Yoxon gave me permission to use their excellent booklets on the geology and prehistory of Skye as a basis for my own view of things.

I am much indebted to the many landowners and estate people on Skye who freely gave much assistance and advice, and, without exception, wished the book well.

In compiling the third edition, Donald Kennedy, Access Officer for the Highland Council, gave useful advice on a number of issues. Likewise, Helen Todd from the Ramblers’ Association (Scotland).

I am grateful to my wife, Vivienne, who accompanies me to Skye over periods of revision, thrusting food and the occasional bottle of red wine in my direction whenever I look like flagging, and generally keeps me going. Teal, our dog, comes too, testing all the bogs, pools, lakes, streams and coastal waters as only a dog that thinks she’s a duck can do.