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Hardest Skye Munros - Ranked!
That’s right, filthy clickbait Ranked! The Skye Munros in order of difficulty for your average hillwalker, with a few necessary caveats....
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Apr 20, 202312 min
This land belongs to ...
As hacks everywhere know, it's good to start with an attention-grabbing and provocative statement, so here's one. I don't like 'the outdoors
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May 12, 20229 min
The Tale that Wags the Log
It's been a while. After a phase of publishing some climbing related writing around the time of the first lockdown, I haven't been...
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Jul 6, 20216 min
A Woman in Assynt
Or, Make Achmelvich Great Again I'll say this for the North Coast 500 - it's egalitarian. The beach car park at Achmelvich is a melting...
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Jun 13, 20213 min
Fragments: the ocean's edge
The Hebrides’ arc is a pummelled shield; the continent’s first and last. The ancient foundations are laid bare, three billion years’...
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Jun 13, 20211 min
Fragments: riverside
A dash of motion, then a bump. I braked to a stop, and looked in the wing mirror. A small brown body was unmoving in the verge. No, not...
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Jun 13, 20213 min
Fragments: in wet snow
In the desert, nothing moved. For weeks, only a rare car or truck scrawling dust, the sun giving shadows slow chase. We travelled far to...
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Jan 4, 20218 min
Not Climbing 8a
Wry musings of a middle grade sport climber There is no good reason that 7a, or 8a, or 9a, should be bigger deals than any other climbing...
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Dec 31, 20207 min
Climbing in Tenerife
A winter sun rock review I'll admit that Tenerife was not a place I'd ever had an interest in visiting. The main impression I had of it,...
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Jul 13, 20201 min
The bill
Busy waiters, back and forth with orders queue in silent squabble on quartz folds, then dispatch on frantic wings over froth and green...
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May 6, 20208 min
What the gabbro gave
Where others have strong fingers and nerves, we have tactics. Ferdia was the racing driver. I was the pitstop mechanic.
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Jan 13, 20203 min
Culm Undone
The wind is at me as I tiptoe in the eggshells and madness, sure to blow the sounds of me over Tintagel’s bare crown and to kingdom gone...
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Nov 5, 20193 min
Wilderness
Many journey through this bleak expanse, but few share with their fellow travellers a word or a glance; their eyes are glazed windows on spi
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Sep 21, 20197 min
Join the Llan
It’s early morning in Llanberis, tipped with autumn cool. Staccato jackdaws rule the High Street, chacking and swaggering, cocky as youth...
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Jul 21, 20197 min
Above the overlap
I always thought of herons as silent and solitary birds. Last night on the Åbyfjord in Bohuslän, I scrambled to a promontory above the...
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Mar 8, 20195 min
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I guess it always happens fast, otherwise it wouldn't happen. I haven't crashed a car before, not properly, at speed. It reminded me a...
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Feb 17, 201911 min
Notes on a Small Van Conversion
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody wants a live-in vehicle. Baby boomers with a pension want a fibreglass kitchen...
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Jan 22, 20198 min
Break Midwinter
Imagine the perfect weapon, that could obliterate a target completely, with no collateral damage. No explosions, no messy coughing up of...
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Nov 26, 20181 min
On Slate
Elidir’s unmade face floats, upturned in the lake - the body is water, glass-like, land-filled. The legs drive blood by pulsing tunnels,...
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Nov 9, 20181 min
A note on the following content
Yes, it's a blog about a blog. All of the pieces older than this one, which appear to have been written in an extraordinary burst of...
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