This last weekend saw six of us from Inverness Nordic and Ski Touring Club on an igloo building overnight trip on the Moine Mhor in the Cai...

After days of heavy rain and south-west winds that stripped the snow from the fields and woods I wandered down to the River Spey to watch th...

The latest TGO (February 2011) is just out. My backpacking column is about the pleasures of winter camping. I've also reviewed a bunch o...

A week into 2011 and a first, if short, hill walk. A bad cold over New Year has prevented earlier outings. Today I had a morning meeting at ...

The winter issue of Outdoor Focus, the journal of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild is out now, edited by John Manning, a long ti...

A down jacket has been ideal for keeping warm in the freezing weather of the last five weeks. A new one on the market this winter is the Rab...

A huge, remote and lonely moorland plateau lies to the north of the Cairngorms, filling the massive roadless area between the A9 road in the...