10 February 2017
I WAS introduced to this route in Glencoe while staying with a friend in Lochaber. Suz had suggested a run up into the Mamores but the following morning…
03 February 2017
In search of a walk into the wilds while the clouds hung low on the mountains and the wind would be blasting over the high tops, I found the perfect escape.
13 March 2016
I NORMALLY avoid wind farms like the plague, but I couldn’t give this one a body swerve. There are Beinn Tharsuinns all over the place…
20 December 2015
THERE’S always that tingle of anticipation and excitement about getting out on snowy hills for the first time in the season. And last weekend brought…
01 December 2015
EVERYONE knows that the most northerly part of mainland Caithness – and Britain – is Dunnet Head. But what comes second in the county’s…
02 November 2015
YOU know you’re heading for an out-of-the-way spot when even the official signboard calls it the "back of beyond". Not content with that, it announces…
06 September 2015
You wouldn’t think that ultra running makes a good spectator sport but the Glencoe Skyline, held for the first time a couple of weeks ago, surpassed…
30 August 2015
Pushing my bike down a steep, rough path which is wet and slippery with the ongoing downpours that have been a feature of the last few hours, I know I…
16 August 2015
Active Outdoors correspondent Jenny Gillies has a rapid learning curve as she takes to the water in an open canoe on one of Scotland’s most popluar…
09 August 2015
All is still on the surface of the loch until tiny circular ripples show where a fish has just surfaced momentarily, hundreds of metres below where I…
02 August 2015
AFTER a few futile weekends of coast-watching – searching for whales and finding none – I decided to turn my back on the sea and head inland.
26 July 2015
IN early August 2005, Labour politician Robin Cook and his wife Gaynor were on holiday in the Highlands. On the afternoon of August 6, while walking down…
19 July 2015
THERE are two thoroughbreds in north Sutherland I’d been yearning to climb for years. But it’s a long way up to Durness and I’d never…
22 June 2015
The route features in a new cycling guide by Alasdair Cain, a mountain guide living in Kingussie, who is also a devotee of road cycling.
14 June 2015
THE Ladder Hills stand as a boundary between Strathdon and Glenlivet and I spend a lot of time here as the area is refreshingly quiet even on the sunniest…
07 June 2015
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen said that an adventure is just a badly planned journey. His trips to the poles – he was the first person to reach…
31 May 2015
THE last throw of winter? It certainly felt and looked like it when I traversed Creag Dubh. With lots of snow on the Cairngorms, well into May, I carried…
24 May 2015
MONKS, Vikings, noblemen and herring fishers all made their mark on this stretch of Caithness coastline at various points in history. Today, though, I…
18 May 2015
WITH a population of not much over 1,000, Brora is well known these days for the fortunes of its football team. The Highland League champions lost…
10 May 2015
THE weather doesn’t seem to be able to decide on a season at the moment, making it hard to plan in advance where to go.
