Active Outdoors

Active Outdoors brings together the best of the great outdoors from across the Highlands and the north-east of Scotland, with inspiring adventures, news, interviews, reviews and more. You can read our articles in the weekly Seven Days supplement inside the Inverness Courier, Strathspey & Badenoch Herald, Northern Scot, Ross-shire Journal, John O’Groat Journal and Northern Times – and follow more news and features on our website at hnmedia.co.uk/activeoutdoors.

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Read Active Outdoors every week in the Strathspey & Badenoch Herald, Inverness Courier, Ross-shire Journal, Northern Scot, John O’Groat Journal and Northern Times.

The history of Active Outdoors

Active Outdoors began as an idea I had after I moved to Inverness to work as a sub-editor on the Inverness Courier – and enjoy spending more time in the great outdoors.

Within six months of moving to the Highlands from Glasgow, I was writing a regular feature containing a walking route and a cycling route each month, which really helped me to discover the area as well as share the experience with readers.

The column began in May 2008 and since then it has grown in popularity, becoming a weekly feature in April 2010 with either a walking route, cycling route, mountain walk or special feature. This is when Peter Evans, a former editor of TGO and Climber magazines, joined the team when he moved north from Dollar and made it his mission to complete a round of the Munros (which he was already well on the way to doing!).

Peter ‘compleated’ his Munros in June 2012, climbing Sgurr na Sgine in Kintail.

In November 2011 Active Outdoors expanded and now appears weekly in six local newspapers across the Highlands and Moray. It still contains a great regular piece on a walking, cycling or mountain route or a special feature along with a selection of photographs.

We also produced a twice-yearly free magazine which proved popular with readers. Read the magazine online here.

We hope to continue bringing Active Outdoors to you for many years to come!

You can now read Active Outdoors every week in these newspapers:
Strathspey & Badenoch Herald
Inverness Courier
Ross-shire Journal
Northern Scot
John O’Groat Journal
Northern Times