outdoors – Page 5 – John D Burns

Returning to Gelder Shiel Bothy

July 31, 2017August 1, 2017John D Burns 2

Ah! there my young footsteps in infancy, wander’d: My cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the plaid; On chieftains, long perish’d, my [...]

Listen to part of the Last Hillwalker where John and his companions trek across the Scottish Highlands, find a lake that isn’t there and [...]

I don’t normally write about my feet. I’m quite fond of them but I don’t expect my readers to share my interest in [...]

June 16, 2017June 16, 2017John D Burns 1

Win a signed copy of The Last Hillwalker. Simply join my mailing list to enter. Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/y8kpg5vm by 13th July 2017 [...]

June 15, 2017June 16, 2017John D Burns 1

Really delighted to have captured this amazing sight on video. Baby eels in a Highland stream. Here’s a great blog about eel fishing [...]

June 10, 2017John D Burns 4

Books are dead. In the future no one will read paperbacks, e-books will rule and the only place for paper books will be [...]

June 7, 2017June 7, 2017John D Burns 8

THE PAIN AND THE GLORY The Victorian’s were very fond of big pointy things. So fond, in fact, that they have littered the [...]

John Burns talks about his experiences walking the Pennine way, then, 1974 as a 19 year old, and now, in his retirement. [...]

Find out more about my book The Last Hillwalker in my new video [...]

May 24, 2017May 26, 2017John D Burns 3

It’s hot for May. On the small station platform at Edale, the air is filled with bird song and the scent of flowers [...]