Here it is the first podcast of 2021 where we go through the diverse range of guests we are speaking with over the next few weeks.

Most years I do a round-up of my favourite photos. Last year was an unusual year due to the pandemic of course - for four months I never went further than five miles from home and not once did I leave the Scottish Highlands and only rarely…

There are so many aspects to travel. We go to places we’ve never been because we want to be surprised. We want to see new sights and experience fresh things. We seek out remote places to see what they might teach us – about the world and…

To make the most of unexpected sunny evenings and early escapes from work, it’s a nice idea to have an escape kit packed and ready to go. If you keep it by your front door so that you see it every day then you’ll be more likely to make the…

Over An Lochan Uaine to Cairn Gorm, November 20 Checking the weather forecast before heading out for a walk, short or long, high or low, is something I’ve done for many years. For mountain and hill trips the forecast is a deciding factor in…

This is a part one of a two part interview with the author of Grandma Gatewood’s Walk. The book is a New York Times best seller and writer Ben Montgomery was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2010.

Muirburn on the Cromdale Hills, November 14For several days now I've been seeing plumes of smoke and flashes of orange flames from muirburn (heather burning) on the Cromdale Hills and thinking about the destruction this causes - the…

David Hanney is the Co-founder and CEO at Alpkit, an outdoor and bike brand for enthusiasts and adventurers. We chatted about buying and selling stuff, what makes a good adventure film, the community of working in an outdoor brand, taking…

I decided to use a random number generating website to pick the grid square for each outing on this project. It will help to keep things surprising and avoid my conscious bias against boring fields of winter wheat, and miles of keep out…

Sometimes it can be great to have a companion in the hills. As a loner who mostly goes solo I easily forget this. I was reminded of it a few days ago when I went up into the Cairngorms for a high camp with fellow outdoor writer and…