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There must be something in the water down at Cantray. For a start, it was once used to power a massive watermill that is now home to the offices of a…
Post by Active Outdoors.
THE Highland Cross has been running for nearly a third of a century and it is still producing firsts, writes John Davidson.
BEFORE I’d even started this route I knew luck was going to be on my side. With the freezing fog still thick in the city, I decided to head…
The huge mass of cloud that sits stubbornly below me is covering something special. Up here in the open sun, surrounding by blue sky and mountains and…
Leaving the streets behind, John Davidson heads off road and into the woods for a night-time mountain bike ride
It’s amazing how comfortable a pile of rocks at 3,000ft above sea level can be when you’re in need of some sleep. With my two little daughters…
ATTITUDES to electric bikes are changing, with more and more of these battery-assisted vehicles being seen on Highland roads, cycle tracks and trails.…
Everywhere you look in Cullen there is something fighting for your attention, from the impressive viaducts that once carried the railway through the village…
Combining two short walks that sit almost side by side, this little outing has a real sense of adventure about it. It takes you to a 5,000-year-old burial…
Life’s better by bike. I have a sticker with those words on the frame of one of my bikes that I use to commute through the winter. It’s a…
FIFTY more yards and we would have made the summit. That was more than six years ago now, and I laughed as I realised just how close we had been.
It had been a few years since I’d pedalled up the old one-in-seven hill to Culnakirk but I remembered it wasn’t easy. Forty-five miles into…
THE peace is unbroken as I bask in the evening sunlight, enjoying views that some people would travel the globe to get. Loch Ness is strung out below,…
A huge amount of work goes into maintaining and repairing mountain paths in some of the Highlands’ most popular walking areas, as John Davidson…
I KNEW what I was letting myself in for this time yet I still didn’t hesitate when I sent off our team application for the 32nd Highland Cross.…
With just two weeks to go until the Highland Cross, I’ve been trying to squeeze in as much off-road running as I can. I spotted the potential for…
Forget free-flowing trails – there’s a different type of mountain biking that’s more about the mountains than the biking. We knew progress…
REMINDERS of the last battle to be fought on British soil are not confined to the battlefield at Culloden. Dotted around the area are names, places…
