Katie Featherstone is a freelance writer and the author of several guidebooks, writing predominantly about hiking, history and slow, sustainable travel. She spent the years 2017-2023 advising walkers as a mountain hut warden in the Icelandic Highlands before moving to Islay, off the west coast of Scotland. Loch Lomond and The Trossachs is her nearest national park and somewhere she tries to spend as much time as possible.