Who we are

I've been walking the Scottish hills for over ten years and live in Glasgow. Most weekends in summer involve a drive north and a hill day in the Trossachs, Arrochar, Loch Lomond or further into the Highlands. Munros are the obsession but the lesser-walked Corbetts and Grahams are quietly the better hills — fewer people, more interesting routes, and the views are no less rewarding.

My background is in software development, which is why OutdoorSCOT exists as a proper web application rather than a WordPress blog. The technical infrastructure — 1,449 hill pages, interactive tools, real-time weather data — I built and maintain myself. The editorial content is written from personal experience and primary sources, not scraped or generated.

Glasgow makes a good base for a lot of Scottish hill country. The Arrochar Alps, Loch Lomond, the Trossachs and Crianlarich are inside two hours; the Bridge of Orchy and Glen Coe ranges are doable as long day-trips; Cairngorm-side hills are a longer commitment but still single-day-from-home if you start early. The hills further north — Torridon, Knoydart, the Far North — are weekend or longer trips; that's when the bothies earn their keep.

I started OutdoorSCOT because the planning information I wanted — where to park, what the road is like, which bothy is worth the walk-in, what the mobile signal is at the start of the route — didn't exist in one place. That's what I'm building.