Re-living the Golden Age with Alex Roddie
If you are in the Scottish hills one winter’s day and you see a Victorian climber step cutting his way up an ice
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photography
If you are reading this – Please go home!
At the end of Loch Arkaig I came across a sign. What it basically says is, “See those big lumpy things behind this
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“There is nowhere left to go, but everywhere.”
Sometimes you just don’t see what’s on your doorstep. I live beside the river Ness. I see it every day, watch its moods
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A gift from the mountain gods
I’m doubled up over my walking poles, high on a snow slope, gasping for air like a goldfish plucked from its tank. My
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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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I think I’m Turning Black and White
I was out today in the frozen Cairngorms today and took some photos in black and white and in colour. I’m beginning to enjoy the
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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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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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