THIRTY years ago, a man called Stephen Young came to visit me in Kincraig, where I was living at the time.Stephen was the owner of the little newspaper group that owned the 'Strathy', and we had
SINCE the inception of the Cairngorms National Park I must confess to feeling delighted and frustrated in turn at some of the decisions made by the national park board. I would guess most folk living
I HAD to head south to Englandshire for a few days to the tribal gathering that is the Kendal Mountain Film Festival.Knowing full well that I would be in for a couple of days of socialising and
IT WAS the day I'd been waiting for. After a summer and autumn of cloud, rain and wind this was 'the good day' and its restorative qualities had me singing.The drive to Duror was unspectacular - a
DURING the latter end of the summer, I walked across Scotland, from coast to coast.Our little expedition was for a BBC television programme that will be broadcast at Christmas and, although I'd walked
CONGRATULATIONS to my good chums Richard Else and Margaret Wicks of Newtonmore-based Triple Echo Productions for winning a Scottish BAFTA award for last year's The Great Climb telly extravaganza. A
OF ALL Scotland's hill and mountain areas, the region that I am probably most unfamiliar with is the Ochils, that lovely little hill range that rolls down from the highland line towards the north