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What I’ve been reading this week, 21 November 2020
The legacy of the Clearances, sketching Scotland’s mountains, the digital dilemma, and why readers should wean themselves off Amazon. Nature and environment How the shooting industry is exploiting…
What I’ve been reading this week, 15 November 2020
Touching cloth on the Black Cuillin, avalanched on the Lancet Edge, choosing your next adventure, and the 80/20 rule. Nature and environment Campaigners warn of fragile future for…
What I’ve been reading this week, 7 November 2020
The value of human silence, cognitive navigation and GPS, wild camping in winter, and taking on Amazon. Nature and environment Our shared vision to restore nature on Exmoor…
When Glen Coe resembled the Himalaya
The perfection of winter in a collection of images from ten years ago It’s easy to forget, when away from the mountains, just how good winter mountaineering can…
What I’ve been reading this week, 31 October 2020
The trouble with pheasants, different perspectives on the Cairngorms, the transition month of October, and the campaign for free access to our landscapes. Nature and environment Pheasant and…
Make a difference for wild places with Wanderlust Europe, Alex Roddie, Chris Townsend, and the John Muir Trust
Today I am launching a fundraiser to help the John Muir Trust by auctioning a copy of Wanderlust Europe and a day out on the hill with myself…
What I’ve been reading this week, 24 October 2020
A bumper instalment this weekend, as I didn’t publish last week. A landscape of hope, the impact of Coronavirus on outdoor education, traverse of the Mamores, an open-source…
Sidetracked Vol. 19 shipping now
I’ve just received my copies. This one is breathtaking. Working on Sidetracked magazine continues to be a pleasure, and this issue contains some truly spellbinding stories. During the…
Five-minute storm
The sky knows more than we do,and it always did. As tier three creeps closerstormclouds queue over the marsh, a fire’s set and for five minutesarrowed droplets dance…
What I’ve been reading this week, 11 October 2020
Outdoor education in crisis, how to walk across Scotland, beating the winter blues, and travel in a time of Covid. Outdoors School’s out: the crisis facing outdoor education…