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…
Being one of hundreds of cyclists streaming down the side of Loch Ness on a road most of us normally steer clear of was a superb and somewhat surreal…
TODDLERS and trailers were the focus of our attention as a group of mums and children got together to enjoy a gentle cycle in Strathglass last weekend.
More and more people in Scotland are taking to the water to enjoy activities in the outdoors, and the majority of them are “casual” participants,…
The Badenoch Way is a great little route that passes through some wonderful stretches of native woodland, offers fine views to the mountains and rivers…
When we set off on our short hill walk from a quiet Inverness-shire glen we could hardly have imagined the mini winter mountaineering challenge we would…
I’M often saying how lucky we are to live in such a great place for cycling and this was one of those days that reaffirmed that feeling.
A SMALL wooden sign across the road from the Aultguish Inn on the road between Inverness and Ullapool says “Drove Road to Strathgarve”. The…
