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| Ronald Turnbull is an all-weather walker and writer, with a special interest in multi-day walks, challenge walks and scrambling. He has completed twenty one different coast-to-coast crossings of Britain, and slept in bivvy-bag on over seventy summits. In 1994 he won the Fell Running Association's Long-distance Trophy for a ten-day run over all the hills of Southern Scotland.
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| Writer, photographer, freelance editor, map sketcher
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| Outdoor writer, photographer and editor. Columnist in Lakeland Walker. Frequent contributor to Trail, TGO, Cumbria.
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2010 OWPG Awards for Excellence (outdoor book) for 'Granite and Grit' published by Frances Lincoln
2008 OWPG Awards for Excellence (outdoor book) for 'The Life and Times of the Black Pig' published by Millrace
2007 OWPG Awards for Excellence (words & pictures feature) for 'Cairngorms Crag 'n' Bag' published in TGO
2005 OWG Awards for Excellence (series of articles) 'Lakeland: Also Famous For' in Lakeland Walker
2002 OWG Awards for Excellence (Outdoor Book) 'The Book of the Bivvy' (Cicerone Press)
2001 OWG Awards for Excellence (Outdoor Book) 'Coast to Coasting' (David & Charles: co-author with John Gillham)
1999 OWG Awards for Excellence (Guidebook) 'Coast to Coast Trail Guide' (Dalesman)
1999 Lakeland Book of the Year Awards: Highly Commended
1994 FRA long-distance trophy.
Full listing on my website (see above) or my Amazon author page http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ronald-Turnbull/e/B002IYV75S
Sandstone and Sea Stacks: A Beachcomber's Guide to Britain's Coastal Geology (Frances Lincoln 2011)
NOT the West Highland Way (Cicerone 2010)
Blencathra - Portrait of a Mountain (Frances Lincoln 2010)
Walking Loch Lomond and the Trossachs (Cicerone 2009)
Granite and Grit - a walkers' guide to the geology of the UK's mountains (Frances Lincoln 2009, paperback ed 2011)
Muir and More - John Muir, his life and walks (Millrace 2008)
Life and Times of the Black Pig - a cultural biography of Ben Macdui (Millrace 2007)
Three Peaks Ten Tors (Cicerone 2007)
Walking Ben Nevis & Glen Coe (Cicerone 2007)
Walking the Cairngorms (Cicerone 2005)
The Riddle of Sphinx Rock - a cultural biography of Great Gable (Millrace 2005)
Pevensey Guide Cairngorms (David & Charles 2002)
The Book of the Bivvy (Cicerone 2001)
Coast-to-coasting (David & Charles 2000) with John Gillham
50 Walks Scottish Highlands & Islands (AA 2003)
50 Walks Somerset (AA Publications 2002)
Contibutor of 4 chapters (Picos de Europa, Julian Alps Slovenia, High Tatras, Scotland coast to coast) to Trekking Atlas of the World (New Holland 2006)
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| Main areas of interest | |
Scottish Highlands (Corbetts, Munros, through routes)
Lake District
Southern Uplands/Galloway
Dorset/Somerset
hot rocky bits of Europe
John Muir Trail
geology
bivouacking
scrambling
backpacking
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