I was asked if I'd have a look at a new free outdoors app called the Hikers Toolkit . I did and I liked it, which is why ...

Two little videos taken early in the morning on September 8 on the trip described in my last post. The one with me taken on ...

Sunrise on the Cairngorm Plateau With a sunny couple of days forecast it looked ideal for an overnight trip in the hills, the ...

Carn na Loine The last day of meteorological summer and the first day with hot sunshine and a clear blue sky for quite a ...

The October issue of The Great Outdoors is out now. In it I review the Altra Lone Peak 8 trail shoes that I wore on the Cape ...

The birch tree The felling of the Sycamore Gap tree has resulted in an astonishing outpouring of shock, grief and anger. The story has be... I was saddened to hear recently of the death of Robert ...

Satellite navigators and communicators have been the most significant changes to my outdoor life in the last few decades, as I said in my first tech post. They’re not the only ones though and I’ve ...

Working on the forthcoming republication of High Summer, the story of my walk the length of the Canadian Rockies in 1988, I’ve been struck by one huge difference between then and now, the rise of ...