A few photos from the Mattehorn Ultraks Skyrace
Matterhorn Ultraks 2018
Trail running in the Azores: Faial costa a costa 48k
First things first, into race registration to pick up race numbers, sign the it's not your fault it's mine paperwork, and collect entry bag. I was hustling down a wet and windy street in Horta, the main town of Faial trying to keep my enthusiasm up. We'd been sitting in a cosy tea-house on the... Continue Reading →
8, 9 or 10 Under the Ben
Ewan, Gregor, Cieran and I had lots of pints, some nachos and venison burgers, then a wee bit of sleep and a full cooked breakfast and did an endurance mountain bike race. 10 Under the Ben. Except we didn't do 10, we stopped a tad early because we'd already ridden the circuit a few times... Continue Reading →
Strathpuffer 2017
The Strathpuffer…….a year on from 24 hours of mud induced leg pain here we stood again, a dithering group of men in their most uncomfortable environment, the supermarket. Staying in group formation we advanced around the isles cramming not so sporty, sports food into our trolley. Things like cheese and sausages. Fortunately emerging from that... Continue Reading →
And off to Russia we went.
I would much prefer to open dramatically with tales of adrenaline and fear but a chronological tale of mountaineering more than often starts with obscene amounts of time spent canned up in airports, aeroplanes and other vehicles. And so it started for us. Our destination was Bezengi mountaineering camp, which lies within the great Caucasus mountain range between Russia and Georgia. It... Continue Reading →
Me and Ewan are going on an adventure again
We’ve been on a few before you know. It’s hard to define the threshold beyond which something becomes a true adventure. One of the contributing factors for us has been that adventures usually have a higher degree of uncertainty or list of unknowns. Time ‘out and about’ for us has included camping, biking and climbing... Continue Reading →
Sunshine, clouds and meal deals
Scotland has been good to us over the past few weeks. As she begins to shake off her winter cloak we've been treated to a couple of weekends of good snow and hill conditions. The first set of photos below are from a weekend spent on bikes and foot in the Cairngorms. In the preceding days... Continue Reading →
Photos from Tromso, Norway
Some photos from a wee trip up to Tromso in Norway in the first week of January 2016. The fjords around Tromso are literally teaming with whales. I had expected to spend hours scanning the horizon for small black dots but in reality if you went out on a boat, stood in one place and... Continue Reading →
Suilven: Assynt: North West Scotland
Climbing Suilven by Norman MacCaig I nod and nod to my own shadow and thrust A mountain down and down. Between my feet a loch shines in the brown, It's silver paper crinkled and edged with rust. My lungs say No; But down and down this treadmill hill must go. Parishes dwindle. But my... Continue Reading →
Pedalling from San Francisco to the Mexican border, my finishline
I had never expected to cycle out of San Francisco, the intended end point of my cycle tour. However the lure of an extra few miles, corners, hills, sights and experiences were too much to bear so I set my sights on the Mexican border. I had a choice between cycling inland to Yosemite and... Continue Reading →
