Peter Evans enjoys a cool stroll alongside the River Spey in this peaceful walk from Boat of Garten
With the BBC’s Winterwatch set in the Cairngorms earlier this year, it was hard not to get enthused about snowy mountains and their attendant wildlife.…
With heavy snow and gales forecast, I wanted to get up a hill before the bad weather struck. My appetite for Torridon Grahams had been whetted after an…
They follow one after the other on the drive down Glen Torridon, a magnificent triptych. First is Beinn Eighe, then Liathach, their soaring rocky ramparts…
Transporting my road bike out of Inverness opens up wider opportunities for cycling, but I always like to just jump in the saddle and start from home.
Inverlael is the usual starting point for a foray into the rugged Beinn Dearg group of Munros, with potentially four to be picked up in a strenuous day.
Funny how things work out sometimes. You set off to climb a Munro, meet other walkers and end up doing three in a much longer day.
Graveyards are fascinating places, opening a window on the social and economic history of an area through the people buried there.
When I first started gathering Munros in the Monadhliath there were two more than there are now, with Carn Ballach and Carn Ban since demoted.
The drama of Sutherland’s mountains never ceases to amaze, no matter how many times I venture north of Ullapool into that rugged landscape of peaks…
They are known as the king of fish for good reason, and to see salmon leaping up a waterfall on the way to their spawning ground is an amazing spectacle.
THE Deeside Way is one of Scotland’s newest long-distance routes, running for 66 kilometres from Aberdeen to Ballater.
THE last ice age is reckoned to have ended in Scotland around 14,000 years ago. It was responsible for sculpting the landscape, with giant glaciers gouging…
EVERY now and then I like to test myself on difficult terrain where route finding and judgement are a bit more critical. It helps to keep the skill levels…
ULLAPOOL always feels to me like the gateway to another world. The much wilder scenery of Coigach and Assynt lies beyond – wonderful sculpted mountains,…
You have to feel sorry for red grouse. They’re nurtured from young birds on managed grouse moors, then just when they think life is dandy and everything…
THE bonnie purple heather is at its best from late summer into autumn and there was acres of it on this great ride around the Cromdale hills.
The old packhorse bridge at Carrbridge – the oldest stone bridge in Scotland and a “must see” for any tourist venturing near the village…
ONE of my favourite occupations is looking at OS maps to find new cycling routes. Some people might, with a degree of justification, call it nerdy. But…
I HAD in mind a jaunt round the northern corries of the Cairngorms, but with a forecast of wind gusts up to 40mph I was a little apprehensive.
