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Thirty years ago I walked over all the Munros and Tops

A Look At The June Issue Of The Great Outdoors

A video comparing two lightweight stove systems: the Jetboil Stash and the Primus Lite Ultra

A Visit To The Abandoned El Alamein Shelter In The Cairngorms

A Walk And Camp On The Cairngorm Plateau In Mist, Snow, And Sun

From the Archives: a wild camp and a mountain 21 years ago and the gear I used

A Look At Stove Systems For Backpacking And Long-Distance Hiking

A Look At The May Issue Of The Great Outdoors

Fifty years ago I was on the Pennine Way, my first long-distance walk

A Local Walk & Camp In Stormy Weather

A First Look At The New Jetboil TrailCook 1.2L

An Equinox Walk & Camp In The Cairngorms: Glen Feshie & Mullach Clach a' Bhlair

Sleeping Mat Thoughts

A Look At The April Issue Of The Great Outdoors

A Walk In The Woods & First Use Of A New Stove

In Search Of Changing Light In The Cairngorms

A New Stove System From Fire Maple

Wind And Snow And Tough Terrain On A Winter Backpacking Trip

Book Review: The Corbetts by Rab Anderson

A look At The March Issue Of The Great Outdoors

A Quiet First Camp Of The Year

Book Review: Hiking The Yukon Quest by Dr Mark Hines

Stoves for Winter Camping

A Look At The February Issue Of TGO

Enjoying the deep January snow: a photo essay.

Favourite New Gear of 2025

Last Hill & Camp of 2025

Welcome to the New Year: Thoughts & Plans

Season's Greetings Everyone!

My Camps in 2025

Video first looks at the Fire Maple Petrel Titanium Ultralight Backpack Stove & the Weschel Bella Tent

Igloos! Igloos! Igloos!

My Hiking & Backpacking Books

A Look At The January Issue of TGO

Hilleberg Soulo - a good solo tent for the winter

November Sunset in the Cairngorms

The First (Mini) Ski Tour Of The Winter

First Snow of the Winter

Book Review: Everest The Hard Way by Chris Bonington

A Walk & Camp in Wind & Rain on the Burma Road & Kinrara Estate, formerly BrewDog's 'Lost Forest'

A Look At The December Issue Of The Great Outdoors

A Look At Some Headlamps (And A Hand Torch)

A Terry Abraham video of me in the Lake District

A Conversation With Feargus Cooney

Autumn Backpacking in Glen Affric

Video and pictures of the Mountain Laurel Designs DuoMid XL Pyramid Tent

A Look At The November Issue Of The Great Outdoors

Video on my trip to the north side of Meall a'Bhuachaille

Tough Terrain On The North Side Of Meall a' Bhuachaille

A new, wider Fire Maple Petrel pot - first look and first use.

Book Review: Waters Of Life - Fighting For Scotland's Beavers by Tom Bowser

Video on my last trip

Autumn arrives: a walk and camp in cooler weather.

A Look At The October Issue Of The Great Outdoors

A Video on the Mountain Laurel Designs Trailstar

A High Cairngorms Camp In The Wind

Across the Moine Mhor to camp on Tom Dubh

A Video On The Hilleberg Akto

Sun & Midge Protection: some products and a little video

Storm Loris & aftermath

A Video On the Lenses I Use

A Walk In The Sunshine To Huntly's Cave (the less well-known one)

My cameras video

A Look At The September Issue Of The Great Outdoors

40 years ago on the Continental Divide Trail, 15 years ago on the Pacific Northwest Trail

A brief video of a walk over Geal Charn in the Lochan na h-Earba region

Short video on a tent, a chair, and a wild camp

Fifteen Years Ago I Set Out On The Pacific Northwest Trail

A Heatwave Walk In A Doomed Landscape

A Look At The August Issue Of The Great Outdoors

A video on gear for a forthcoming overnight trip

The Dava Moor Fires

A video look at what's in my daypack

Twenty years ago today I began the GR20 in Corsica