The Mountain Lifestyle Blog

  • Weather Windows for Perfect Paddleboarding

    The absence of all but a light breeze has really given us some great, calm paddleboarding opportunities this week and today looked to be the last day of such conditions. In order to catch the high tide, we could have a relaxing start to the day, which involved a walk around the village from the Read more

  • The Forcan Ridge (Gd II)***

    With a guidebook introduction of ‘One of the best mountain scrambles in Scotland’ and a three-star rating, a traverse of the Forcan Ridge has been high on my list of things to do while we are in this area of the Highlands. Today looked like our best bet for appropriate conditions for crossing the knife-edge Read more

  • On the Isle of Skye

    Making the best of conditions, necessitated an early start from the loft. There was no getting away from the showers, but an early morning lull in the wind gave hope of a paddleboarding adventure, so as the day grew light, we crossed the famous bridge onto Skye. To increase our odds of a sheltered paddle, Read more

  • Creag an Duilisg (The Crags)

    Had to work around the weather today, so set off on Paddleboards just west of Plockton around a little bay called Port Ban and over to an Island called Eilean Sgreabach. Last nights rain had just about cleared away, but it was still pretty dark. The clouds began to lift off the mountains in the Read more

  • Plockton by Paddelboard

    By some astonishing good fortune, while strong winds are circling around the UK, the little town of Plockton is almost in the ‘eye of the storm’ with barely a breath of wind. It’s still getting it’s fair share of heavy rain, but without the wind, it means that the sea is calm for paddleboarding. Given Read more

  • Paddleboarding across Loch Lochy

    Our plans to get ourselves somewhere remote and out of the way of the world came good – and we even managed to fit in an adventure on the paddleboards too. Un-usally for Scotland, there was not a breath of wind; perfect conditions for paddleboarding – so we scanned the maps as we drove north Read more

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