Cairngorm Summit Bivvy: January’s Outdoor Sleep
My monthly outdoor sleeping has spilled over into 2016 due to missing February last year. Winter is always tricky because the short days encourage a relatively long lie. Having a long lie in a remote outdoor location makes it hard to get much else done the next day, and in winter there is much that I […]
A Daylight Approach to Maol Bhuidhe
Some places get inside you, and the remote Maol Bhuidhe bothy is one of those places. My first visit was in the winter of 2008-09 by the most obvious route, a long icy cycle up Glen Elchaig followed by a climb over the Aonach Bhuidhe – Foagaich bealach. We returned a further three times, using a […]
Glen Affric Hammock Camp: December’s Outdoor Sleep
Hammock camp by Loch Beinn A’Mheadhoin I woke in a swaying hammock, too scared to peep over the rim in case four hundred pounds of muscle, tooth and claw was staring back at me. When I first attempted to sleep in a hammock, 13 years ago in the Tolumne Meadows area of Yosemite, this fear […]