Katie is a freelance writer focusing mainly on hiking, history and sustainable travel. She has published a guidebook to the Inner Hebrides, writes articles and walking routes for a number of magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian , Trail , TGO Magazine and The Independent , and is currently working on several walking guidebooks for Cicerone. Living in West Scotland, she enjoys walking and cycling whatever the weather - Loch Lomond and the Trossachs is her nearest national park and somewhere she tries to spend as much time as possible.