On hearing that the third egg had hatched at the Loch Garten osprey nest , it seemed time for the first visit of the year to see these iconi...

For several years now we’ve seen pheasant chicks in the garden, scurrying after their mother through the grass. We’ve assumed the nest was i...

At the end of last month I attended the 2010 Innovation for Extremes conference in Lancaster. I’ve been to these conferences, which are orga...

The long cold winter is proving slow to fade away. For several days now snow showers have been falling in the Cairngorms and a bitterly cold...

The June issue of TGO magazine is just out. My backpacking column is about the pleasures of forest backpacking while in the Wild Walks secti...

A new edition of my walking guide to the Isle of Skye has just been published by Collins. The first edition came out in 2001. The book cover...

This piece first appeared in the December 2007 issue of TGO magazine. I was reminded of it while rereading Hamish’s Mountain Walk (see last ...