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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…

John Davidson May 26, 2024 0 Comments
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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,…

John Davidson April 17, 2024 1 Comments

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,…

John Davidson June 8, 2023 0 Comments
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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…

John Davidson June 5, 2022 0 Comments
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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…

John Davidson June 3, 2022 0 Comments
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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…

John Davidson May 19, 2022 0 Comments

Ross Brannigan on his book Running Adventures Scotland

In this new episode of the Active Outdoors podcast, John Davidson speaks to Scottish author Ross Brannigan after the official launch of his book, Running Adventures Scotland, which is published…

John Davidson May 9, 2022 0 Comments

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About John Davidson

I’m a journalist in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland with a passion for the great outdoors – including walking, cycling and mountaineering.

In my day job I work for Highland News & Media as Content and Commercial Editor, working with the editorial teams across 14 weekly newspapers and associated websites and the HNM app, along with a number of editorial and commercial supplements and tourism publications. I am the editor of the John O’Groat Journal, Caithness Courier and Northern Times, covering Caithness and Sutherland.

I am also a qualified summer Mountain Leader and a member of the Mountain Training Association, and am working towards my British Cycling Trail Leader (Level 2) Award.

I have written two books of walking and cycling routes around the Highlands and have contributed to several magazines including The Great Outdoors and Scottish Walks & Cycling.

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  • A ride back into Glenmore in the aftermath of Cairngorms wildfire August 15, 2026
  • LISTEN: Active Outdoors podcast hears how Glenmore is opening up again after the Cairngorms wildfire August 10, 2026
  • Opening the Dores to off-road ride to Loch Ness August 8, 2026
  • Coire Lair horseshoe makes for a long summer day in Torridon mountains August 1, 2026
  • Beaver babies in Glen Affric delight conservationists July 29, 2026

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A full family outing over spectacular Torridon munros of Beinn Liath Mhor and Sgorr Ruadh

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New sections of Great Glen Way path have transformed route south of Drumnadrochit

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Skeletons and Stone Age ruins on Yarrows Heritage Trail in the heart of Caithness

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Spotting a soaring eagle on a fine ridge walk on the challenging Mullardoch munros

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