The most serious walk in Britain?
I realise I must have lapsed into unconsciousness as the icy downwash from the rescue helicopter, hovering above, brings me round. Peering through
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How to get cheaper gear – Legally
It’s not that I don’t trust technology it’s just that most of the time I don’t understand it. It’s the pace of change
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The demise of the mountain bothy
There is something special in the stillness of a winter’s night, when frost renders the burns silent and dusts the grass with transient
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LM Bothy -Audio Cast
Chicken soup, why you shouldn’t burn down a bothy and the wonders of coal. All hot suff as I visit another remote Highland bothy
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LM Bothy -Audio Cast
Chicken soup, why you shouldn’t burn down a bothy and the wonders of coal. All hot suff as I visit another remote Highland bothy
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Hey dude, pimp my bothy!
Looking down through the ice that masks the surface of the river Kingie I marvel at the clarity of the water. I can
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Kinbreack Bothy – Audio blog
My latest audio podcast. a virtual walk into Kinbreack Bothy http://johndburns.podomatic.com/player/web/2013-03-02T01_06_49-08_00
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Of Lochs and Snow
There is one activity us mountaineers don’t talk about much. It gives us such joy that we’re afraid that if we let the
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Protest about Cairns
I posted this on the UKClimbing website and thought you might enjoy it Mountain climbing is such fun I think I’ll do it
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I’m so excited – I’ve been benighted!
It finally happened, after over thirty years on the hills, an enforced bivi! I think I’m pushing back the frontiers of incompetence now.
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