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I’ve sat on too many ridges in the Cairngorms watching people struggle with packs that were far too technical for what they were actually doing. …

I remember standing on a ridge in the Cairngorms three years ago, watching a group of hikers freeze in place because they’d followed some glossy …

I remember standing on a ridge in the Cairngorms three years ago, watching a group of hikers freeze because they’d bought into the marketing hype …

I’ve spent twenty-two years watching people make the same mistake: they walk into a shop, see a shiny, high-tech boot with enough Gore-Tex to wrap …

I spent three hours last Tuesday watching a group of hikers huddled under a single, oversized canopy, looking utterly defeated because they’d followed a “complete …

I once spent four hours in a freezing, sodden hollow on the Cairngorms, trying to coax a group of otherwise sensible people out of a …

I’ve spent two decades watching people walk into the mountains with a brand-new, top-of-the-line kit list they bought straight from a glossy magazine, thinking that …

I’ve sat in too many briefing rooms listening to people talk about “predictive meteorological modeling” as if a fancy algorithm can account for the way …

I once spent four hours huddled under a granite overhang in the Cairngorms, watching a group of hikers stare blankly at a GPS unit that …