Like many outdoors people I’m obsessed with the weather. I check forecasts daily and have several weather apps on my phone, including the wo...

For some reason all comments since mid-January this year have disappeared. I apologise to everyone who's commented on my posts for the l...

In June 1986 I spent a week backpacking in Iceland, the only time I've been there, all intentions to return having come to nothing so fa...

  Article in the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza On June 25th 1982 I was in Little Norway, a hamlet above Echo Lake, with Larry Lake. The second lo...

This little book is a real gem. It arrived while I was at the Outdoor Trade Show in Liverpool and I've only just found time to look thro...

Larry Lake fording Tilden Creek, June 17, 1982 In my last post on my 1982 Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike I wrote that the spring thaw was und...

Big cities are strange places. At least they are when you haven’t visited one for a long time. The noise! The smell! The people! The buildin...