A Scottish Highlands Festival

Liathach and Beinn Eighe, Scotland.

Love walking in the Scottish Highlands?  Then think about heading to the first Torridon Walking Festival.

The new event aims to encourage “adventure seekers and low-level trekkers” to experience some of Scotland’s best walking.

This three-day festival, October 1-3, 2011, will offer low level walks following estate roads and footpaths and high level walks.

The more challenging walks are designed for mountain travelers who love exploring Scotland’s wild, off-the-beaten-track places.

The Torridon area is known for its rocky peaks and vast lochs and sandstone mountains.

Highlights of the festival walks will include:

• the epic Liathach which stands over Glen Torridon;
• a full day out on Beinn Eighe taking in two Munros and
• and a day climbing Beinn Dearg.

Event organizers will hold an overnight expedition to a remote and secluded bothy.

On the trip, mountain travelers will dine by a roaring stove, share adventure stories and sleep outdoors in the stunning Scottish landscape.

For hikers, there will be loch-side rambles and woodland walks through the fall countryside with local flora and fauna talks.

Amateur photographers will learn photography techniques from a professional landscape photographer.

The Festival’s guides will be fully-qualified walkers who have spent their lives exploring Scotland’s hills.

“Their main aim is to help walkers and non-walkers achieve and experience something they never imagined possible,” say festival organizers.

The Torridon area offers a range of accommodation from youth hostels, B&Bs and guest houses to self-catering rentals, inns and hotels.

Image courtesy of the Torridon Walking Festival.