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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…

The winter evening settles down, the burnt-out ends of smoky days at the ebbing end of a bizarre year. Things are not what they were; are unlikely to be the same again. And this, of course, is an opportunity to get tremendously excited…

I expected a less memorable beginning to this day. Indeed, I had carefully looked on my map to find its most boring, forgettable, uneventful grid square. A grid square without road or house or river, a solitary footpath, one pond, and the…

ReRun is a Community Interest Company aimed at prolonging the life of running clothes and equipment, founded and run by Dan Lawson, Team GB 24hr Ultra runner and his wife Charlotte.

The thundering and booming of the wind woke me in the early hours of the last day of October, a wind that rattled across the roof and surged through the trees.

I’m writing this in my shed as rain rattles the roof and the first strong autumn winds flurry leaves from the trees. The seasons are changing, and the world is changing too. David Attenborough has joined Instagram “because, as we all know,…