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Two years ago I posted a blog with links to pieces on winter skills and gear. As we're entering the winter season and there ...

The December issue of The Great Outdoors is out now and unsurprisingly it has a snowy theme including a big feature on winter ...

I'm delighted and thrilled that my book on my walk the length of the Canadian Rockies is available again in a brand new ...

Tangled forest in Clais an Dunain An interesting exhibition on the First People Of The Spey at the excellent Grantown-on-Spey ...

Nature and adventure photographer John Beatty has recently published his Wild Nature Diary and Calendar for 2025 in partnership with the John Muir Trust and they are as superb as ever, packed with ...

Backpacking stove gas canisters tend to be replaced when almost empty because the heat from them is no longer enough to be of use. At least ... Paramo Katmai shirt. Pacific Northwest Trail, 2010 This ...

Glen Feshie in the Cairngorms is one of my favourite places, as regular readers of this blog will know. I go there several times every year. At least one of those visits is always in the autumn when ...