Passionate, poetic, political, enraged, sensuous, scholarly, exciting, emotional – Wild is all these and more, a complex mix of experience a...

A few weeks ago Backpacking Light.com asked me to choose three favourite items of gear for the annual Staff Picks article. This has just bee...

Having recently written about cold, wet backpacking and spent time last week replying to comments on my Backpacking Light.com feature on tha...

Whilst British backpackers may complain about our wet and often cold weather it does have one advantage. Once you can deal with the worst Br...

The latest edition of TGO magazine (January 2009, even though it’s early December) includes my review of a selection of camera bags (there’...

Backpacking Light has just published a feature of mine on Paramo waterproofs. You can find it here but you have to be a member to read it ...

November is not a good month for bright sunny days and clear light in the Scottish Highlands. Storms are the norm, winds whip the last leave...