the outdoor diaries

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...

With some annual leave from work but gales forecast over the hills pretty much everywhere, I headed down to Annandale for a few days of walk...

About fifteen years ago I climbed a little hill above Tyndrum called Fiarach with my friends Andrew and Graham. We had been enjoying a lovel...