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The December issue of The Great Outdoors is out now and unsurprisingly it has a snowy theme including a big feature on winter ...

Tangled forest in Clais an Dunain An interesting exhibition on the First People Of The Spey at the excellent Grantown-on-Spey ...

Nature and adventure photographer John Beatty has recently published his Wild Nature Diary and Calendar for 2025 in ...

I'm delighted and thrilled that my book on my walk the length of the Canadian Rockies is available again in a brand new ...

Backpacking stove gas canisters tend to be replaced when almost empty because the heat from them is no longer enough to be of use. At least ... I was saddened to hear recently of the death of Robert ...

Backpacking stove gas canisters tend to be replaced when almost empty because the heat from them is no longer enough to be of use. At least ... I was saddened to hear recently of the death of Robert ...

Back in June I decided to stop my Cape Wrath Trail walk at Inchnadamph, some 47 miles/75km from the finish, due to an unseasonally cold and windy storm (see here). I didn’t feel like battling into the ...