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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 se

ttings. 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

02/07/2025

Not Scotland!

I (Anna) have been lucky enough to be kicking about the ‘heart’ of the French Alps for the past couple of weeks. It’s an adventurers paradise and we’ve been enjoying all kinds of outings; family hikes, Alina’s first alpine multipitch, sport crags, trail runs, airy ridges and some cool dips to recover from the heat!

Tonight I’m cooried in on the Torino hut while Lindsay is guiding a bespoke trip to Loch Ossian and the surrounding area. I’ve been musing on the differences between these mountains and our Highlands.

Everywhere we go folk ask where are you from and when Scotland is the reply inevitably the response is ‘oh well you don’t have mountains like these’. Like we are missing out…

Well no we don’t, we don’t have cable cars, cafes and high refuges where you can eat and sleep in relative luxury. We don’t have manicured trails or signposts or ladders to help you past the tricky bits. We don’t have glaciers or 4000m peaks or quite such a number of routes.

But, we also don’t have quite so many people, everywhere! It seems hard to escape the glaring influence of us and our infrastructure in these mountains, to not be drawn back into the human world, nature is here but she is often over spoken. Admittedly we haven’t tried very hard to seek out the off the beaten path adventures (yet), but still.

So while our mountains may be wee and by no means untouched be people they somehow seem to retain a little more of their wilderness than here. Nature can be felt more strongly, it’s easier to truly escape and I’m definitely starting to miss them!

01/07/2025

Botanical printing is lovely way to bring playfulness, curiosity and connection between our selves and the natural world.

On Saturday Shona spent the day learning from the wonderful and . Making art from leaves, plants, feathers, sheets of paper, sheets of music. UV light was used to allow the materials to leave their mark on the page.

Shona was keen to learn these skills both for her own practice, and to bring these practices to the Wild Mountain Retreat and the Colours of Knoydart Retreat.

Here are some of the images she created on the day, to illustrate what we can do together when we aren’t out in the hills on retreat. We hope you like them. :)

“But I think when we lose the connection with the natural world, we tend to forget that we’re animals, that we need the Earth. And that can be devastating.” MARY OLIVER,

30/06/2025

Come chase some rainbows 🌈

Almost time to head back to the Cairngorms in search of mountain tops, awesome camps and if we’re lucky some epic rainbows.

If you happen to be free 11th - 13th July then why not join us. Due to late cancellations we’ve two spaces left and we’re offering the late booking 25% discount again if you’d like to grab one, use the code cairngormsky 🙌🏻

Help us spread the word and send this to someone who needs more rainbows in their life ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

28/06/2025

Wander west ⛰️👣

It’s been a quiet few weeks for Wild Roots with the team taking holidays but we’re back at it and are super busy for the rest of the summer and autumn.

Yesterday had a wonderful meander along the West Highland way with some lovely folk visiting from Chigaco.

A longish walk, with minimal elevation, but to still include some epic views of the Scottish landscape around Glencoe was the assignment and it’s safe to say Wild Roots understood 🫡

We were chatting all about the flowers, the fascinating history of the area and really just having a good old blether. We also got to experience a whole array of Scottish hiking weather: sun, wind and rain (sometimes within 5minutes!)

However you want to experience the Highlands we’re here to help.

20/06/2025

Maybe this sunny weather is giving you a desire to get into the hills but you don’t feel super confident to camp or do multi days? We’ve 2 places on our Cairngorms sky journey in July and we’d love it if you could join us. Any questions just DM us here or email on website :)

18/06/2025

📣New Offering: “Knoydart Colours” 🍁🌱🛫🍃🥬

We’re very excited to share a new offering with you.

Enjoy a 4 night adventurous retreat amongst the glorious colours of the Knoydart Peninsula.
With our Discover Knoydart journey selling out from the get go, Lindsay and Shona thought it would be fun to create another opportunity to connect with this wonderful place.

The Retreat’s primary base is Inverie and weather permitting, we’ll have one night under canvas in the hills and the opportunity to climb a Munro. If the weather doesn’t play ball, we could have a cosy night in the pub instead and listen to one of The Old Forge’s famous traditional music sessions.

The trip will evolve based on the weather and participants but it promises to be a time of adventure and rest, connection and creativity, a trip of a life time in this beautiful corner of the world. 23rd - 27th October 2025.

Full details and booking on our website. All welcome. Any questions very welcome.

16/06/2025

Who are our Wild Camping Journey’s and Retreats for?

Our group experiences are open to all regardless of gender, age and previous experience. If you want to come and are able to, then they are for you.

We work hard to create an open and inclusive space where your needs will be accommodated and supported.

Please don’t let mental health concerns, neurodiversity or worries that you won’t fit in be barriers to you joining us. We are always happy to chat over concerns just let us know and we can explore this with you.

If you would struggle to meet the cost of one of our journeys The Neil Mackenzie Trust may be able to help. They are a small charity who offer a limited number of grants for skills training and expeditions. All details on our website.

Smiling faces from our Earth Journey in Glen Nevis the other weekend. Still 3 spaces available on our Sky Journey in the Cairngorms 11th to 13th July. All details on our website :)

12/06/2025

Come Sky high in the Cairngorms ⛺️⛰️👌🏼

Due to an unlucky run of cancellations we’ve now got 4 spaces available on our very popular and previously fully booked Cairngorms Sky Trip.

This is a three day wild camping journey through the high Cairngorm mountains taking in summits, ridge lines, sunsets and sunrises, epic camp spots and as always time to deeply connect with the landscape we move through.

All camp kit and food is provided.

Departing Aviemore, 11th - 13th July.

If you still need some persuading then here’s what a previous participant thought:

‘I recently joined Anna and Shona on a sky camping adventure over 3 days in the Cairngorms. When we initially met it was clear that several of us were nervous about being with a small group of diverse strangers for 3 days. But it didn’t take long to settle into the journey.

Anna lent us all high quality rucksacs, tents, sleeping bags and fabulous food and we set off, stopping for circle time and closer observation of our surroundings as well as our own feelings as we related to the environment and to each other.

We shared stories and experiences and were united by our love of the mountains. We had some swimming adventures, climbed some munros, camped in wonderful places and had an amazing experience.

Strangers became friends and we ended with a real feeling of achievement in our journey in so many different ways. Big thanks to Anna and Shona for facilitating, and to fellow campers for their openness and sharing the adventure. Thoroughly recommended. Fabulous.’

11/06/2025

“There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there’s a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility.” (John O’Donoghue).

We at Wildroots Guiding we are passionate about creating a space for you to connect with your wisdom and inner knowing - in whatever way and words make sense to you.

This looks different to each of us.

It could look like having moments to yourself as you walk, just taking in the perspective that a big landscape and geological time gives you.

It might be a feeling of calm that you’ve forgotten you could feel.

It might be that you notice you are feeling more connected to yourself, others and/or the landscape.

You might notice that you are less aware or concerned about time and lose track of it.

There are no right or wrongs or should’s about how to feel but as a guides we are always privileged when someone shares these experiences with us.

This weekend on our Earth Journey in Glen Nevis we were fortunate enough to have time and space to notice, rest, draw, listen to poems, to birds, to each other; and to appreciate. And to share how this time helped each of us.

Would you like time and space to connect with yourself in beauty? The next opportunity to join on us is on our formerly sold out Sky Journey in the Cairngorms 11th to 13th July. Due to 4 cancellations we’ve plenty space for you - and a friend if you wish! All details on our shiny new website :)

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