Silent Glen Tours — Journal https://silentglentours.com/journal/ Notes from the Scottish Highlands: what the passes and the daylight are doing, what is happening in the glens this month, and the history behind the places on our routes. en-GB 2026 Hamar Croft Ltd Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Who grits the road: what changes when you turn off the A82 https://silentglentours.com/journal/who-grits-the-road/ https://silentglentours.com/journal/who-grits-the-road/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The trunk roads get a gritting service around the clock until May. The council roads our days turn onto get one from six in the morning to nine at night. Here is where that line falls on Glen Etive and Applecross. road The Glen Affric pines that were ten years old and three inches tall https://silentglentours.com/journal/glen-affric-pinewood-seedlings/ https://silentglentours.com/journal/glen-affric-pinewood-seedlings/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT In 1948 there were hardly any young Scots pines left in Glen Affric. The seedlings were there all along, bitten to the ground. What a deer fence showed, and why fewer fences is now the aim. nature Corrieshalloch’s bridge, and the famine roads either side of it https://silentglentours.com/journal/corrieshalloch-bridge-and-the-destitution-road/ https://silentglentours.com/journal/corrieshalloch-bridge-and-the-destitution-road/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT In 1874 the engineer of the Forth Bridge hung a footbridge across his own gorge so people could look down. The roads you drive to reach it were built a generation earlier, by people working for relief. history The rut is starting, and you will hear it long before you see it https://silentglentours.com/journal/the-rut-is-starting/ https://silentglentours.com/journal/the-rut-is-starting/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Red deer stags start roaring in the glens from late September. Here is what is actually audible, where the sound carries best on our routes, and the thing nobody tells visitors about the first three weeks of October. season Inverness drops below twelve hours of daylight on Friday https://silentglentours.com/journal/inverness-below-twelve-hours-of-daylight/ https://silentglentours.com/journal/inverness-below-twelve-hours-of-daylight/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The equinox fell in the small hours of this morning, but day and night here are not equal until Friday. What the next three months do to the light, and which of our days still fit inside it. daylight