Last night I witnessed an incredable sunset, which had a slightly apocalyptic feel as a giant shadow was cast over the cloud, I’m guessing as the sun dipped down behind Ben Wyvis in the far distance.
Clear Fell – Early Days
Living in the Highlands, you are never far from a forest, in fact, you are never far from a forest anywhere in Scotland, as woodland covers almost 18% of the total area of Scotland. My house looks out over forestry from all sides, and a couple of weeks ago I noticed activity just down the…
New MindShift Gear Release
My MindShift Gear RotationPro bag is my current turn to bag for any assignment that involves hiking or riding my bike and whilst it fits as carry-on for most flights I do, I find it a tight squeeze fitting a lot of gear in and it won’t take my big glass. But this looks set to…
New Kickstarter launched by Peak Design
Peak Design, have just announced their latest Kickstarter project and it looks like they are jumping into the camera bag market in a big and radical way, having redesigned the standard camera bag, to offer an adaptable but functional series of bags. PD started out on Kickstarter by making the Capture Camera Clips which changed…
In Print: Mountain Bike UK Magazine
MBUK Big Ride Guide: Linn of Dee, Cairngorms Back in November, as snow was falling in the Northern Cairngorms, I teamed up with Max Darkins of MBUK to drive over the snow covered roads from Aviemore to the Linn of Dee. Here we joined up with two local riders Malcolm and Rebecca from OrangeFox Bikes for…
Lyness Naval Cemetery
Last week on a cycling tour of Orkney, we took some time out to visit the Lyness Naval Cemetery on the island of Hoy. Managed by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the cemetery was started in 1915, at this time Scapa Flow was being used as the northern base of the Grand Fleet during the…
Northern Lights – Inverness March 2016
I remember when I first witnessed the Northern Lights, I was about ten years old and I was terrified. I don’t know why, but I remember standing on the cliff top, at home in North Yorkshire, looking out past the lights of Middlesbrough and watching these strange shapes move around the sky. They filled me…
MBUK Big Ride Guide – Rothiemurchus
A couple of months ago, I joined Max Darkins from Mountain Bike UK magazine along with Sally and Bruce from Mikes Bikes in Aviemore for a ride through Rothiemurchus in the Cairngorms of Scotland. It was that time of year when the leaves were turning and mud could be found in epic proportions, but the…
Hogmanay Aurora Borealis
What better way to welcome in the New Year, than to watch as the Aurora Borealis dance in the sky above you. Enjoying a midnight stroll, with a hip flaske of single malt, we watched as the finest light show in the World kicked off above our very heads. Happy New Year, wherever you are!
Print profits for Nepal
Two years ago my partner Katie and myself started planning two, three month trips to Nepal to volunteer for medical rescue posts high in the Himalayas. In September 2014 I made my first trip to this, the most amazing country and fell in love with the place, the culture and most of all the people. Everyone…
