Ronald Turnbull

Regular contributor Ronald has been lucky enough to pass the plague year in a pretty good place, revisiting the sandstone gorges, waterfalls, ruined castles and old trackways of Nithsdale in Dumfriesshire. He’s even had a handful of 2000-footers within the Scottish Government’s 7-mile ‘local exercise’ radius. The result has been a self-created ‘Nithsdale Way’, from the sea to Scotland’s highest village, Wanlockhead, taking in Criffel. Read Ronald’s 450-million-year-long walk up Haystacks on p48, and his thoughts on walkers and windfarms on p22.