Backpacking

On this page you’ll find features, opinion pieces and online diaries for my various backpacking trips.

Scotland

The Cape Wrath Trail

• The Cape Wrath Trail diaries – my full blog series on hiking the CWT in 2015
• Naeboots on the Cape Wrath Trail – my TGO feature on the CWT
• How to Walk the Cape Wrath Trail – my UKHillwalking feature on the trail
• CWT gear debrief – what worked, what didn’t, from a 2015 perspective

Other backpacking routes

• The West Highland Way – field notes accompanying my WHW feature
• Backpacking the Alder Trail – a mini e-guidebook to enjoying this 100-mile route from Fort William to Aviemore
• Backpacking the Skye Trail – my feature for The Great Outdoors on hiking a classic long-distance route
• The Skye Trail – field notes accompanying my TGO feature on the Skye Trail
• Blair Atholl to Aviemore – a pre-lightweight excursion in June 2013

The Alps

The Tour of Monte Rosa

• The Tour of Monte Rosa diaries – my full blog series on hiking a superb 100-mile Alpine backpacking circuit in 2015
• Hiking the Tour of Monte Rosa – my TGO feature on the TMR
• TMR gear debrief

Other Alpine resources and trips

• Backpacking in the Alps – an introductory e-guidebook for newbies to backpacking in the European Alps
• The Ascent of Sasseneire – a 3,000m peak that changed my life
• Aosta to Evolene via the Col Collon – a short pre-lightweight backpacking route in 2014

Pyrenees

The Haute Route Pyrenees and GR11

• The HRP / GR11 blog series – a section hike across the Pyrenees, cut short due to illness
• Haute Route Pyrenees field notes – more photos and info on my Pyrenean route
• Gear report – tentative first steps towards an ultralight load, but a long way to go yet
• Photos from the Pyrenees