Perthshire, Part One

I’ve wanted to visit Perthshire ever since I saw a particularly eye-catching front cover on BBC Countryfile Magazine in November 2019. The cover showed the Pass of Killiecrankie in the throes of Autumn and I…

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Knott Rigg & Ard Crags

Setting out to bag all 214 Wainwrights has been a bit of a revelation. Without our checklist of fells, there are so many hills which we’d probably never have come across, including the summits of…

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Low Fell & Felbarrow

Low Fell and Felbarrow are the type of hills that could be easily overlooked if they weren’t Wainwrights, that most illustrious category of fell. Perched on the western fringes of the Lake District, these small…

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Whatever the Weather: a Week in the Western Lakes

We’re very lucky to live close enough to the Lakes to be able to hop across the A66 for day trips to Ambleside or Keswick every few weeks. But the truly wild and remote side…

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The Falls of Bruar

If you’re driving north into the Scottish Highlands by way of Inverness, there’s a more than good chance you’ll spend a few hours driving along the A9. It’s not a bad drive (although you’ll inevitably…

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