Photography on the Trail
You don’t need a ton of gear to create meaningful images on a long-distance trail. Sometimes an agile approach can be best. This feature was first published in…
You don’t need a ton of gear to create meaningful images on a long-distance trail. Sometimes an agile approach can be best. This feature was first published in…
Alder Trail, Scotland, backpacking
‘I can’t do it, Roddie. I’m going back down. Sorry, mate.’
Moonwalker: Adventures of a midnight mountaineer by Alan Rowan Walking the Munros. This is a time-honoured subject for hillwalking books, and it might be thought that nothing…
Update: UKHillwalking asked me to adapt this article as an opinion piece for their website. You can read the extended version here. Although I lived in Scotland for…
In a departure from my usual form for trip reports, I’m writing this one up as a typecast — that is, scans of pages typed on a manual…
Photo (C) James Roddie 2014, all rights reserved Back in January, it emerged that the last glacier in the Scottish highlands may have lasted well into the 1700s.…
British winter climbing is in a strange place at the moment. We like to get away to the hills as an escape from “real life,” and yet the…
The Mounth Passes: A Heritage Guide to the Old Ways through the Grampian Mountains by Neil Ramsay and Nate Pedersen (Kindle) This slim ebook came to my attention…
My new novel, The Atholl Expedition, asks a question: when did the last glacier in Scotland die? Was it thousands of years ago in the prehistoric past, as is commonly…
Wham! The gust of wind punched me in the chest, lifted me off my feet, and hurled me twenty feet back through the air to land, dazed, on a…
This time last week I was sitting in the public bar of the Cluanie Inn, nursing a pint of Red Cuillin and reflecting on yet another spectacular day…