walking – Page 3 – John D Burns

A day on the Great Glen Way

April 10, 2017April 11, 2017John D Burns 1

Here’s my latest trip along the Great Glen Way from Drumnadrochit to Inverness beside Loch Ness. I jumped on the bus and waved [...]

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 [...]

April 5, 2016John D Burns 5

Normally, when I’m out in the hills, I don’t worry too much about what the ground beneath my feet feels like. The earth [...]

September 20, 2014johndburns 8

If you are thinking of visiting a Highland bothy, and if it’s something you’ve not experienced you definitely should take the opportunity for [...]

May 16, 2014johndburns 12

It’s all very hush, hush. I’ve issued conflicting information on which Scottish mountain I’m going to camp on to confuse the opposition. As [...]

April 13, 2014John D Burns 8

(If you go two episodes back in the blog you can read the first instalment Judgement Day) It’s the morning after the walk [...]

There is grass in my baked beans – I must be camping. It doesn’t matter how carefully you cook things when you are [...]

The approach to Ryvoan bothy, described in the above post, is another great granny walk. The walk to the green Lochan, you pass [...]

Had an amazing day in the Cairngorms a little while ago. On the 28th of January, my 57th birthday, I headed across the [...]

Sometimes you just have to take a long hard look at yourself. This photo of me convinced me that the time had come [...]