I remember standing in a sodden patch of bracken near the Cairngorms back in ’14, watching a group of hikers hover over a bright orange …
Fungi: Identification Is Not the Same as Edibility


I remember standing in a sodden patch of bracken near the Cairngorms back in ’14, watching a group of hikers hover over a bright orange …

I once spent three hours in a sodden peat bog near the Cairngorms, squinting through a magnifying loupe at what I thought was a rare …

I remember standing on a sodden ridge in the Cairngorms back in 2012, trying to explain to a group of increasingly shivering hikers that we …

I remember sitting in the driving rain on a ridge in the Cairngorms three years ago, watching a photographer scramble over a scree slope just …

I remember sitting in a damp sedge bed three years ago, shivering in a high-tech, £300 “stealth tent” that had more zippers than a tailor’s …

I once watched a group of hikers sit shivering in a damp valley for three hours, clutching expensive binoculars and staring at a patch of …

I remember standing on a ridge in the Cairngorms back in 2012, teeth chattering and visibility dropping to about ten meters, watching a group of …

I spent three years as a ranger watching people stare at a patch of disturbed mud, clutching expensive field guides like they were holy relics, …

I was standing on a sodden ridge in the Cairngorms last November, the kind of damp cold that settles into your marrow and stays there, …

I remember standing on a ridge in the Cairngorms three years ago, wind coming in sideways and my boots feeling like lead, only to find …