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

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

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

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

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

With the threat of an imminent lockdown across the whole of Wales, we made the last-minute decision to head north while we still could and having hurridly thrown some kit and clothes into the back of the van, by mid-afternoon, found ourselves hiking around the shores to Ullswater in the northern Lake District. The plan… Read more