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Four intrepid Scots in their 20s and 30s will embark on a range of conservation adventures in the Highlands, Trinidad, California and Newfoundland, thanks to a fund set up in memory of Bill Wallace MBE, an inspirational Edinburgh-based mountaineer who…
Volunteer members of the Mountain Bothies Association (MBA) are getting geared up for a busy year of bothy maintenance. The Association, which looks after over 100 bothies for walkers and other outdoor enthusiasts, has a full programme of projects planned for…
There are some situations where a strong, rigid boot is almost essential – ice-climbing immediately springs to mind – but for a lot of the time there is no need to lug a pair of boots around. Footwear is an…
Having spent years engaged in a perpetual foot versus stiff boot struggle, I became an evangelical convert to the world of trail shoes after completing a long distance route in footwear strongly resembling my old school trainers. Since then trail…
Following the long spell of very dry weather, firemen have been fighting several large wildfires in Northwest Scotland and the Outer Hebrides. Flames stretching for two miles in length were at one point threatening the village of Strontian on the…
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