After a week of wild weather, confining us to lower slopes, a final window of opportunity saw us grabbing a few magical hours on Creag Dhubh

The bothy at Craig sits a few miles beyond the end of the winding road to Diabaig, nestled in a sheltered glen, behind a wild beach.

A review of my year of wild camps, time spent living in the landscape, not passing through it.

I live in what many people would think of as a crowded corner of Surrey. Nearby, the major road arteries of the M3, M25 and A3 take hustling commuters to and...

The natural harbours of the south coast are unlike anywhere else on the incredibly varied and wonderful shores of the British Isles. Like so much of our coas...

The Rhinogydd, known colloquially as the Rhinogs, lie between southern Snowdonia and the sea, making up the high ground between the stunning estuaries of the...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about finding alternatives to motorway services whilst travelling the country. Now I've started a new job, which takes me out on the...

Late spring and early summer paddling in Southern France is all about gently flowing rivers, and warm, friendly white water at a moderate grade, paddling ben...

For some time, I'd been thinking how much nicer it would be, when on a long drive, to pull off the motorway and explore, rather than stop at an anonymous ser...

For nearly ten years now, I've been exploring the backwaters of my local rivers, especially the Wey. I've had some wonderful moments, on beautiful meandering...

Basingstoke: a much-maligned town thought of as urban and boring by many. Canal: a stretch of water thought by many to be full of shopping trolleys and dead ...

Last autumn, I started volunteering for Surrey Wildlife Trust. For years, I've been wandering the commons and woods which SWT manage in my area, so when I be...

Every Easter, a bunch of friends and I, including a handful of kids, head out on an adventure in the Scottish Highlands by canoe. These are our Pirate advent...

I don't know whether the translation is really true, found lurking on the world-wide-web, but it is certainly apt, this really is the Back of Beyond. Glencou...

So, the Beast from the East's little brother was on the way. Stories of doom and gloom abounded, and no doubt supermarket stock controllers got a little bit ...

Every year, old friends Steve and Nigel and myself head north for a week in the winter in search of snowy hills. We've been doing this for nearly thirty year...

As the moon rose, full and bright, over the wild moorlands, the lonely ruined gables of abandoned crofts were outlined against the remarkably pale night sky....