Being part of something special at the 40th Highland Cross
The 40th staging of the Highland Cross took place on Saturday, June 22, 2024 – and I was among the 750 or so people lined up at the start in…
John Davidson PHOTOS: Scottish Orienteering Championships 2024 – hosted by INVOC
Saturday, May 25, 2024 saw the Scottish Orienteering Championships individual races come to Inverness when INVOC hosted the event at Creag Leach. Around 450 competitors ranging in age from around…
A historic Border route to the Wallaceneuk parkrun in Kelso
A railway once branched off the Edinburgh-Carlisle Waverley line at St Boswells in the Borders and led the ten-and-a-half miles to Kelso. Like so many of these once vital lines,…
Active Outdoors interview: Tim Hamlet of Assynt mountain rescue team
The Assynt mountain rescue team covers a huge geographical area incorporating all of Sutherland and Caithness. I spent a day with team in Lochinver as part of a training weekend,…
Ready for the return of the Highland Cross in 2022
Like so many other things, the Highland Cross has been absent from the calendar for the last couple of years, meaning the last time the coast-to-coast challenge took place was…
Loch Ness 360 three marathons challenge complete!
The Loch Ness Challenge is starting to feel like a distant memory, but I’ve had a little time to reflect on my recent ‘three marathons in three days’ along the…
Live tracking on the Loch Ness 360 Challenge
Follow live – Friday (Dores to Drumnadrochit) | Saturday (Drumnadrochit to Fort Augustus) | Sunday (Fort Augustus to Dores) This weekend sees the inauguaral Loch Ness 360 Challenge finally get…