07 April 2018
The mesmerising landscape of the north-west Highlands is nothing new to those lucky enough to live there, or near enough to visit on a regular basis.…
31 March 2018
At the start of the Easter holidays, John Davidson suggests some great traffic-free bike rides to get you and your family back on two wheels after a long…
24 March 2018
IT wasn’t yet 7am and already I’d seen two things that lifted the spirits: first the sun rising into an almost cloudless March sky, then a…
17 March 2018
It’s strange to be writing about this run while in the Mediterranean sun, thousands of miles away from a Scotland that is firmly in the grip of…
10 March 2018
Tentacles of interconnected ice crystals reach out from every point on each frozen rock, desperately clinging on in any sanctuary that offers even a hint…
03 March 2018
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…
24 February 2018
It’s not every day you get the opportunity to be trained by an Olympic standard coach. I just hoped Alex Standen, a former GB skier and currently…
17 February 2018
It’s always a good start to a run when even the car park boasts its own attractions. If you go through the gate on the opposite side of the road…
10 February 2018
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…
03 February 2018
When Kristina comes up with a plan, you always know you’re going to be in for an epic. So when the phone rang at quarter past seven in the morning,…
27 January 2018
After days of mist, damp and cold weather the skies finally cleared. OK, it was still only two degrees in the middle of the day, but the sun was out and…
20 January 2018
ULLAPOOL always feels to me like the gateway to another world. The much wilder scenery of Coigach and Assynt lies beyond – wonderful sculpted mountains,…
13 January 2018
Taking to the hills in winter requires a whole new skillset, as Nicole Webber discovers as she ventures out to climb her first winter Munro with her more…
06 January 2018
Not everyone is a fan of the snow but there's no denying its transformational properties in the Highland landscape, and nowhere is that more apparent…
30 December 2017
Running up and down hills, cycling along country lanes, mountain biking on exhilarating off-road trails, taking a walk in the magnificent Highland scenery…
23 December 2017
"You’re making it hard for yourself,” she told me, and it was difficult to argue. Here I was, not much more than a couple of miles into what…
16 December 2017
So it’s finally open, and people have been crossing the fourth road bridge over the River Ness since Monday, judging for themselves what difference…
18 November 2017
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…
11 November 2017
Roaring stags greet us as we trample our way up the sodden hillside, already looking forward to the sanctity of the ridge above. We can hear them but,…
04 November 2017
The water of life has never been so well earned, as Jenny Gillies discovered on her first endurance race