FionaOutdoors

It started with a suggestion from a friend a couple of years back saying that if I had a dog, Cani-Cross would be perfect for me. But I didn’t have a dog! As soon as Wispa the Wonder Whippet became part of our family, several more people left messages on Facebook and Twitter saying that [...]

Let’s get one thing straight first of all. If you’re imagining that former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has become a born-again sea kayaker you’d be wrong. Instead,  the Sea kayak DVD features one of Britain’s leading kayaking coaches, also called Gordon Brown. This is a review of the second volume in a series of extremely [...]

Bungee jumping would be enough of a thrill for most people, but now a Scottish outdoors company is launching a bungee jump at night. According to Highland Fling Bungee, the Hallowe’en  Night Bungee Jump event is the first of a its kind in Europe. On Saturday (Oct 29) dozens of adrenaline seekers will hurl themselves [...]

Running uphill without any flat sections for 5k on a gorgeously sunny, but breezy and chilly, day in the Bavarian Alps with two top French bloggers and runners, Greg-Runner and Mountain Goat Sylvain, makes me sweat. Of course it does! It’s faster than my usual pace, steeper than my usual hills, at higher altitude than [...]

To buy or not to buy ski and snowboarding equipment Last year’s snowboarding holiday saw me ditching my snowboard of 10 years (bought from top snowboarder Lesley McKenna after I was lucky enough to be given a few first lessons on the board) to try another, more modern board. But within 30 minutes I realised [...]

It’s raining, it’s windy, it looks like the summer (if you could call it summer) is over and we’re heading full tilt into winter. But this doesn’t mean us outdoorsy folk do not have something to look forward to. I’m not thinking about the forthcoming skiing and snowboarding season. Wooohoo! For the past decade or [...]

12 minutes of film stuff here but it’s worth it for the ickle kids riding Glentress with their daddy. So cute. That’s what TweedLove is about: Cycling for everyone. Kids, mums and dads, gung-ho guys and girls, British champs, downhill speedsters. The festival takes place June 11 to 19 and looks like being masses of [...]

Are you planning on a winter hill walking trip? Or perhaps you are hoping to get away for a few days in January to experience Scotland’s mountains in the snow, whether on foot, bike or skis. If so, then it could pay to become a member of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland. From January 2 to [...]

A fantastic weekend in Scotland’s great outdoors recently included a bike and hike to the summit of the Munro Beinn Dearg, near Blair Atholl (thanks to the Mighty Vickster for the loan of her gorgeous mountain bike), a Yoga for Walkers session with Abby at the fabbie Beallich yoga and mountaineering centre in the Cairngorm [...]

I achieved a host of fabulous things on Saturday. * I walked in the Scottish hills in glorious sunshine (while my home was apparently drenched in rain.) * I bagged the Munro, Carn a Gheoidh (near Glenshee Ski Base) for the second time but on this occasion I could see the top (no whiteout this time!) [...]