Camping

I remember standing on a ridge in the Cairngorms back in 2014, my fingers so numb I could barely feel the threading on my stove, …

I remember sitting in a sodden tent in the Cairngorms, shivering in a four-season sleeping bag that was doing nothing to stop the chill, staring …

I once watched a group of well-meaning hikers spend forty minutes trying to assemble a titanium gourmet kitchen set while a low cloud bank was …

I was halfway up a scree slope in the Cairngorms, the wind coming in sharp, freezing gusts that felt like they were stripping the skin …

I once spent three hours in a sodden valley in the Cairngorms, trying to explain to a group of increasingly miserable hikers why we couldn’t …

I remember sitting in a sodden valley in the Cairngorms three years ago, listening to the rhythmic thwack of a poorly tensioned flysheet struggling against …

I remember a night in the Cairngorms back in 2014, huddled under a tarp in a relentless sleet storm, listening to the rhythmic, hollow thud-thud …

I’ve spent twenty-two years watching people make the mistake of buying gear based on a shiny brochure rather than the reality of a damp tent …

I remember sitting in a damp tent in the Cairngorms back in 2012, listening to the wind whip against the flysheet and realizing that my …