the outdoor diaries

I forget sometimes that I've quite a few years under my belt in life and in the outdoors. Then now and again something happens that remi...

In May 2023, I accidentally started walking the Southern Upland Way. My plan then had been to simply use the Way to access the Galloway hill...

The Arran Coastal Way is a long distance walking trail that goes round the coast of the Isle of Arran in Scotland's Firth of Clyde. I wa...

Many years of wild camping throughout my adult life have left me with an unusual quirk. When I am out and about or travelling on trains and ...

What a morning to wake up to! A blaze of orange across a blue sky signalled the approaching dawn before the red disc of the morning sun grad...