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Places, expeditions, articles
This section contains words-n-pictures web journals of my recent trips to the John Muir Trail, California, and to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.Here also are some of my recent articles, written for magazines like tgo (The Great Outdoors) or Lakeland Walker, including a couple that have won awards plus others that I've particularly enjoyed writing. Here are also links to one or two podcasts from the Outdoors Station, and captioned images from an Edinburgh talk/slideshow on bivvy bags.
Perhaps the best 200-mile walk in the world, from Yosemite to Mount Whitney in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. My walk along it was in September 2007.
web journal words and pictures
A podcast about walking the John Muir Trail and using Alan Castle's guidebook from Cicerone Press
podcast from the Outdoors Station
Can trees please? Americans seem to think so, but I had my doubts on this 100-mile walk along part of the Mountains to the Sea Trail in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.
web journal words and pictures
The Cairngorm 4000-footers, over three days, by scrambling routes or easy climbs. Article published in TGO and winner of the OWPG Cicerone Award for Best Words-and-Pictures Feature 2006
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The five-day race the length of Wales. Glyn and I came approximately last -- but we made it. The race is being re-run in 2012, with an entry fee multiplied by fifty. The first edition of Welsh Three Thousand Foot Challenges had a 12-page account of the run. This has been shortened for the current edition but you can download the original here.
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A talk in Edinburgh (for the charity Hope and Homes for Children) in 2011 where the brief was 20 images each appearing for just 20 seconds on a full size cinema screen. The 'Night of Adventure' comprised 11 outdoor adventurers. I was the tame one -- but at least my adventures, being hilltop bivvies, did indeed take place at night.
web page 20 images and their captions
video [external link] the images (squashed a bit) and me talking
A podcast of me discussing The Book of the Bivvy can be listened to with the link below. The interview is 30 minutes, the file is 15MB.
podcast
A podcast of me discussing my bookThree Peaks Ten Tors with a lot of digressions at the OS Outdoors (actually Indoors) Show in March 2007 can be downloaded with the link below. The interview is 35 minutes, the file is 16MB (so you need Broadband).
Download MP3 File
Coleridge and his 9-day fellwalk of 1802, which I rewalked in 2002 for Lakeland Walker magazine. Coleridge's own description of Moss Force, Newlands - to my mind the finest piece of outdoor writing so far - is only in print in academic works, so I've put it on the web.
web page words and pictures
Moss Force, Newlands from Coleridge's hill journal 1802
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