What I’ve been reading this week, 31 May 2019
I seem to have read a lot of interesting things this week, so once again it’s a slightly longer entry. Enjoy. Long-distance backpacking Cape Wrath Trail trip report,…
I seem to have read a lot of interesting things this week, so once again it’s a slightly longer entry. Enjoy. Long-distance backpacking Cape Wrath Trail trip report,…
When I go backpacking, keeping a journal is an important part of the process for me – as important as taking photographs. But should you keep a digital…
Since there was no ‘reading’ post last week – I was away backpacking in the Highlands – I’ve included a few extra links tonight. Enjoy! Backpacking and the…
Sustainable tourism, walking for mental health, the 40th TGO Challenge, section hiking the CWT, and editing as therapy. Environment Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth’s…
A decade ago, my life was very different. I’d been living in Glen Coe for just over a year, working behind the bar at the Clachaig Inn, and…
Three long-distance routes traverse the Pyrenees: the GR10, GR11 and, most challenging of all, the Pyrenean Haute Route. In 2016, on the hunt for mountains and summer sun,…
This essay was first published in my Pinnacle Newsletter on 26 April 2019. Sign up for my newsletter here. Some say that ‘adventure’ has become a meaningless term.…
Writing a guidebook in a mountain hut on the Pyrenean Haute Route – Tom Martens, author of the new Cicerone guide to the HRP, writes about an adventure…
Updated 2019-07-12 to reflect my final setup on the eve of my hike. From mid-July 2019, I’ll be thru-hiking the Haute Route Pyrenees. Planning is now well underway,…