A mental health and outdoors advocate has called on political parties fielding candidates in May’s Council elections in Fife to make mental health support and accessing the outdoors key priorities in the next term. Ross Cunningham from Inverkeithing, who runs a website called Mountains Mend Minds...
Mountains Mend Minds, a website dedicated to promoting the mental health benefits of hillwalking, is challenging people across Scotland to 'hike a hill' for mental health charity SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) in August. The website's editor Ross Cunningham, who took up hillwalking when suffering...
Whether you have summited a handful of Munros or have 'compleated' them all you will probably be able to think of one you enjoyed above all the others. I've 'bagged' 185 so far and there are plenty that stand out to me such as Liathach, The...
During the initial lock down of March and April I walked and walked through the city streets, round, over, through Arthur' Seat and Holyrood park and along the miles and miles of old tow paths that secretly criss cross Edinburgh. Admittedly sometimes only because I...
When Munro baggers think of Scotland's finest mountains, for many the mind will drift to the gnarled peaks of Skye's Cuillin ridge, to the giants of the Nevis range, and the majestic fortresses of Torridon and Wester Ross - all situated in different parts of...
Fife is a peninsula with coastlines to the north, east and south, giving the region a distinctive identity which can be traced back hundreds of years to the time when Fife was a Pictish Kingdom - leading to its unofficial full title still used to...
It is undeniable that the summer just passed (yep, sorry to confirm it’s definitely over!) saw a noticeable spike in Scots exploring the outdoors. You only needed to take a drive through the likes of Glencoe or Glenmore or around Loch Lomond on a weekend...
All Aboard the Munro Train Just over a year and half ago I noticed the hashtag #microadventure while aimlessly scrolling through Instagram. With a little more research, this appeared to be a buzzword used by influencers to position a day out as something much more exciting....
This week I managed to summit a Munro I'd been dreading since the day I learned of it, called the 'In Pinn'. For me, the challenge was both a physical and mental challenge as I was doing a real rock climb for the first time,...
'Munro Moonwalker' Alan Rowan, who has written three books on his adventures over the years hiking Scotland's mountains during the night, has praised the hiking community for following the Scottish Government and Scottish Mountain Rescue's calls to stay off the hills during the lockdown. Scottish Mountain...