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Winter skills courses in Scotland

The winter mountains are utterly beautiful – but they can also pose a real danger […]

‘Did I see a wolf in the Scottish mountains?’

This is a true story! (It was a PS tagged on to the end of […]

My first night in a Scottish bothy

I have always avoided nights in bothies. What? FionaOutdors prefers B&B shocker? Well, no, I […]

At the risk of becoming a Gore-tex bore

I like to make sure that outdoors equipment really does what it says it will. […]

Running in a Gore-tex Active Shell jacket

Running uphill without any flat sections for 5k on a gorgeously sunny, but breezy and […]

Guest kit reviewer: Two ‘very different’ tents

Totally Cool Christine (who I first met at The Mighty Deerstalker) was looking to borrow […]

Tell Walk4Life about your top Scottish walks

A healthy walking website is calling on Scottish walkers to tell them about their favourite […]

The G-Force bags his Munro Round

It was wet. Very wet. The views were almost non-existent. But the day of walking […]

An Ode to new Munro compleatist, the G-Force

On Saturday October 1, 2011, the G-Force summitted the final Munro in his first round […]

Why is the G-Force so sad about his penultimate Munro?

On reaching the summit of the G-Force’s penultimate Munro (yes, that’s right, just one left […]

Guest blogger Romy gets fit with her baby son Ayden

Now that my roving outdoors guest blogger Romy Beard has had her baby (Ayden isĀ  […]

My first solo Munro

I set myself a few challenges this year. One was to complete an Olympic Distance […]