I remember standing on a ridge in the Cairngorms back in 2012, watching a landscape that felt fundamentally wrong. The vegetation was thin, the riverbanks …
I was standing on a sodden ridge in the Cairngorms three years ago, watching a group of otherwise capable hikers try to patch a leaking …
I spent twenty-two years watching how ecosystems fail when people treat them like something you can just “fix” with a single, expensive gesture. There is …
I spent most of my career watching people try to “save the planet” by buying expensive, pre-packaged “pollinator kits” from big-box garden centers, only to …
I remember a Tuesday in the Cairngorms, about six years ago, standing in a horizontal downpour that felt more like being hit by a pressure …
I spent most of my twenties watching people make the same mistake: they’d walk into an outdoor shop and walk out with five hundred pounds …
I once spent four hours in a bivvy bag on a ridge in the Cairngorms, listening to a group of “prepared” hikers argue about whether …
I remember a Tuesday in late October, standing on a rain-lashed ridge in the Cairngorms, watching a young hiker freeze mid-stride because a golden eagle …
I’ve spent twenty-two years watching people walk into the treeline with a thousand pounds of shiny, high-tech kit they clearly read about in a glossy …
I’ve spent more nights than I can count sitting by a dying ember, staring at a charred, unidentifiable mass that was supposed to be dinner. …