Navigating is tricky. Even in fair weather and with good visibility, getting from point A to B requires some degree of skill and attention. The consequences of navigating poorly can easily result in exhaustion, injury, or worse in adverse weather conditions. Today, technology augments user skill and assists in...

A strange compromise between comfort, space, and weight—I’d never really got to grips with the idea of the Bivvy bag. No stranger to solo wild camping, I bought my first one-man tent in 2006 and always enjoyed the ample room and shelter its provided since. A bivvy bag always...

As iconic Scottish landmarks go, Loch Lomond is second only to perhaps Glencoe as the countries favourite beauty spot. The national park hosts a great deal more visitors than any other destination in the country. One of a handful of busy trails belonging to the park, the mountain half-way...

After first conquering the automotive world, GPS has all but taken over in fitness endeavours too. Runners and cyclists seem to rarely head out without a wrist-mounted tracker keeping tabs on every sweated meter and minute. Gadgetry devices are increasingly intruding into outdoors navigation too. Hiking GPS devices have...

As walking mistakes go, poor navigation can be one of the more costly and trip destroying ones you can make. Yet so many, setting out for the trail from the central belt, forget to look south to find the great hills and routes for a days exploring. While it’s...

Getting out in the hills can seem prohibitively expensive, difficult, and require more knowledge and experience that you currently have. Nothing could be further from the truth....

National parks are exceptional wild spaces that contain spectacular scenery and incredible wildlife, but what makes them different from the surrounding landscape?...

The Great Polish Map The Great Polish Map of Scotland is a three-dimensional terrain map built within the gardens of the Barony Castle Hotel. Located near Eddleston in the Scottish borders, the hotel served a previous life as army training grounds before it caught the eye of a visiting...

For well over a hundred years the lifeboat station in St Abbs has been pulling swimmers, divers, and sailors from treacherous seas and dangerous conditions on a regular basis....

Designed For Strength At six stories high and 90 meters in length, the curtain wall of Tantallon Castle is built to intimidate enemies and impress friends. The blood-red sandstone looks especially daunting in front of the blue seas and green fields that surround the medieval structure on the East...