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I once spent four hours in a bivvy bag on a ridge in the Cairngorms, watching a group of hikers try to “layer up” using …

I once spent three hours on a ridge in the Cairngorms watching a group of well-equipped walkers descend into a very preventable kind of misery, …

I remember a Tuesday in the Cairngorms, about six years ago, when the wind was gusting at forty knots and the rain was coming in …

I spent ten years watching people buy the most expensive, high-tech training programs and carbon-plated shoes, only to see them struggle to maintain a steady …

I was standing on a ridge in the Cairngorms last October, watching a peregrine return to a ledge that had been stripped of its natural …

I remember standing in a sodden, waist-deep peat bog back in 2014, trying to explain to a very frustrated group of walkers why we couldn’t …

I once spent four hours huddled under a granite overhang in the Cairngorms, watching a group of “highly prepared” hikers stare blankly at a map …

I once spent four hours sitting in a damp hollow on a ridge in the Cairngorms, watching a group of “prepared” soloists try to negotiate …

I was standing on a scree slope in the Lake District three years ago, watching a well-meaning hiker scramble to untangle a high-tech, retractable leash …