Adventures in a Hot Tent | Blog October 12, 2022October 12, 2022John D Burns Ever wanted to try a tent heated by a woodburning stove? Here is all you need to know. The light is fading quickly, [...]
John D Burns: The Hot Tent Diaries | Podcast October 8, 2022October 10, 2022John D Burns Listen to John Burns talking about his new book The Hot Tent Diaries about exploring the Highlands of Scotland in a heated tent. [...]
Camping in the Scottish Highlands: Vlog September 15, 2021July 24, 2022John D Burns John D Burns videos hot tenting in the remote Scottish Highlands. [...]
Death and power in the Highlands June 13, 2019John D Burns The mountains and glens of the Scottish Highlands are famed for their beauty and tranquillity. These are places where great peaks [...]
Wild about camping (Up date) June 4, 2019John D Burns I’m delighted to be able to tell you that the scheme I outlined in such terms of derision yesterday has been scrapped. In [...]
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Terror in the glens June 1, 2018John D Burns I leant against the rough stone wall of Bearnais bothy and stared out at the rain from porch as hefty droplets of rain [...]
Torch Warning November 2, 2017John D Burns 3 Around a year ago I posted this post about my new head torch. The light’s fantastic My new head torch seemed incredible bright [...]
The Light’s Fantastic April 15, 2016John D Burns 3 ‘Where the hell is it?’ I probe the darkness with the fading beam of my head torch searching for the bothy. In the dwindling [...]
Fire and Men April 11, 2016John D Burns 7 It’s dark and raining heavily now. The bothy fire smokes for a few minutes, coughs, splutters and then dies. Charlie, my walking companion [...]