What’s different about Suilven?

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
Guest blog by Mandy Haggith, a director of the Assynt Foundation. Suilven is often described as an ‘iconic’ mountain, and it is certainly distinctive, with its long side-profile and sugar-loaf mounded summit. From different angles it looks like an elephant, or a camel, or a whale.  From the sea it is an unmistakable marker post for finding your way into the…

Boulder Field Blizzard

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
Guest blog and photography by Chris Puddephatt from 24th April 2017. I needed to get up to the “boulder field” where Andy is bagging up stones ready for the airlift by helicopter up to the path workers. I’ve got directions, but I have to get across a river of variable and unknown depth. Fortunately, John from Glencanisp has offered to…

Suilven: A baptism of fog

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
Guest blog and photography by Chris Puddephatt from 20th April 2017. Alarm at 6am; sandwiches already in fridge; cameras in rucksack. Tea-to-go; drive to meet the workers at Glencanisp. So this is what Real Men look like: Scott, Alec and Donald. They walk the 11k in two hours; half way up Suilven to where they left their tools. I think…

The Long and Winding Path to Suilven

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
Guest blog by Chris Goodman, Path Project Officer for the John Muir Trust After a 2½ hour walk carrying tools, Wednesday saw work start on repairing the path to Suilven. Contract team Arran Footpaths stuck the first spade in the ground as they began efforts to consolidate the steep path on the North side of the iconic community owned mountain.…

From Hill to Grill: Ullapool High School pupils meet their meat

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
Second year pupils from Ullapool High School spent two days on the hill with professional deer stalkers to learn about wild venison as part of the Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership scheme’s (CALLP) Outdoor and Woodland Learning Project. Rangers and stalkers from the Assynt Foundation, John Muir Trust and Highland Council Ranger Service taught the pupils tracking techniques to…

 NEW CHAPTER FOR COIGACH AND ASSYNT LIVING LANDSCAPE PARTNERSHIP

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
 27th July 2016 Coigach and Assynt Living Landscape Partnership has secured funding worth £2.9 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, with additional support from other funders, to enable delivery of a wide range of projects over the next five years. This support will enable Project Partners to deliver twenty eight projects that will collectively enhance the area’s natural, built and cultural…

What's On… at Quinag!

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
Fancy an amphibian encounter or the benefit of the expertise of local Naturalist Ian Evan to explore the wildlife and plants of Quinag?  Or perhaps you would like to make a contribution to conservation with your time and effort as a JMT volunteer?   Romany Garnett, Quinag Conservation Officer with John Muir Trust shares the schedule of public activities. Download the JMT…

Primary 7 Go Wild!

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
Since April, Primary 7 pupils from Lochinver, Stoer, Achiltibuie and Ullapool have been part of an exciting transition project ‘Discovering Wild Places’. It has given the pupils the opportunity to work together to discover, explore and conserve wild spaces, and share their experiences, fulfilling all elements of the Discover level of the John Muir Award, before they head into S1…

JMT Quinag 2016 Walks Schedule

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
John Muir Trust has released the dates for the Quinag 2016 Walks Schedule.  Get the most from the landscape by joining Romany Garnett, Quinag Conservation Officer, to explore the many aspects of Quinag, including not only the three corbett peaks, but also its ancient woodland and coast. Download the schedule!  

Quinag guided walks programme 2016

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
John Muir Trust publishes its Quinag guided walks programme 2016.  Plenty of dates for your diary and an ideal way to appreciate the extent and majesty of this 808m mountain, home of three corbetts! Download the programme!

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