Celebrating the Summer Solstice in Gairloch
View north from Big Sand, near Gairloch The longest day is a very special time and one that always provokes mixed feelings. A mild euphoria that it is, to all intents and purposes, constantly light. A sense of disbelief, for these long days are ephemeral; by the time the lightness has been accepted it is […]
Another MTB traverse of the Cairngorms: Aviemore to Blair Atholl
Former bridge at Carnachuin in Glen Feshie In 1971 the Italian alpinist Reinhold Messner wrote an essay entitled ‘The Murder of the Impossible’, in which he criticised the trend among some mountaineers of the time of drilling holes in the rock to allow the fixing of expansion bolts. His objection was that, by using […]
Carn nan Tri-tighearnan: enjoy the view before the Moy windfarm comes.
Look carefully and you will see an innocuous looking mast, harbinger of a 19 turbine wind farm development on the Moy Estate. This week I feel inspired to write a celebration of my local hills, the high moors that rise to the southeast of Inverness. As far as I know the region as a whole has […]
