New Active Outdoors magazine
John Davidson This latest issue of Active Outdoors contains loads of features about the great outdoors across the north of Scotland, including a special report on mountain biking in the Highlands. There…
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Inverness Half Marathon 2015
The Inverness Half is always a tough race, coming early in March and therefore necessitating some serious motivation to train through the dark winter months. This year I managed to…
Video: Strathpuffer 2015
This video is an edited snapshot of my first Strathpuffer, a 24-hour mountain bike event which takes place in January in the Highlands! Think 17 hours of darkness riding natural…
Video: High-level Great Glen Way
Last year I headed out to explore some new sections of the Great Glen Way which have been built to help improve the long-distance route. This is a short video…
Bike-run-bike to Loch Ness
I found myself with an all-too-rare day with nothing planned today, so decided to go for a nice little trail run down at Dores. And what’s the best way to…
Empire Antarctica – an interview with Gavin Francis
Gavin Francis spent more than a year working as the base camp doctor at the Halley Research Station in Antarctica, cut off from the rest of the world – including…
Highland Cross 2014
The legs are slowly recovering after completing my second Highland Cross. I knocked around seven or eight minutes off my time from last year, coming into Beauly 5 hours, 22…