The Beaches of Scotland: A selected guide to over 150 of the most beautiful beaches on the Scottish mainland and islands. 2022 By Stacey McGowan Holloway. Vertebrate Publishing. 186 pp. Softback and ebook. £20 RRP. ISBN 9781839810787 Disclosure: Stacey, the…
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Urban Geology meets Urban Nature Maps
Edinburgh is a great city to be a geologist in. So much rock is exposed within the city bounds and there is a considerable variety in lithology, if not geological age. While the commanding heights of the seven hills (Arthur’s…
Tagged with: Edinburgh, Geodiversity, map, Social Good, urban nature
Posted in Book reviews, Edinburgh, Geodiversity, Geological Walks (urban), Maps, Scotland, Woodlands
Posted in Book reviews, Edinburgh, Geodiversity, Geological Walks (urban), Maps, Scotland, Woodlands
Cycle Training Assistant completed through Cycling Scotland
Over the past two weekends I continued my progress in building up my cycling qualifications through Cycling Scotland. Local difficulties prevented me from getting up to do my final day on Cycle Trainer course with a fantastic group with diverse…
Edgelands in North Lanarkshire
Edgelands are those places that are on the periphery of urban sites. The concept was wonderfully explored in a book of the same name by Paul Farley & Michael Symonns Roberts and has become a pervasive enough concept to warrant…
An unexpected Pavement Palaeontology bonanza at Straiton retail park
Earlier in the week I was out checking out another prospect for work, as expedition trips are few and far between just now, when I stumbled upon the stone cladding used on the Next Store. I don’t have any call…
Lochan nan Arm: legends, translations and a bit of geomorphology
I’ve quite a long association with the area around Tyndrum in the Western Highlands. I first visited as part of one of my undergraduate projects when I was doing my geology degree related to past mining activity and then went…
‘Footwear systems’ for the hills
One important piece of advice I was given by my old friend Dr Andy McMullen (Botanaeco) when I started doing a lot of outdoor work, both leadership and scientific fieldwork, in 2014 was to LOOK AFTER MY FEET! Part of…
Tagged with: Expedition skills, Hillwalking
Posted in Hill Running, Mountain Training, Orienteering, Scotland, Uncategorized
Posted in Hill Running, Mountain Training, Orienteering, Scotland, Uncategorized
Beinn a’ Ghlo: back to the hills
While it was possible to return to the Scottish hills for paid work a few days earlier, the 3rd of July saw the lifting of the five-mile travel restriction in Scotland. Although this gave me a lot of scope in…
Tagged with: Beinn a' Ghlo, Loch Loch, QMD
Posted in Mountain Training, Mountains, Pathwork, Scotland
Posted in Mountain Training, Mountains, Pathwork, Scotland
Hills of Hame is now ‘Good to Go’ after July 15th
Everyone in the outdoor community is having to adapt to changes and think about how deliver training and experiences under new constraints. Today I drew up a Covid-19 plan and worked through the Visit Scotland ‘Good to Go!’ accreditation scheme.…
Keeping hill fit close to home
Although things have changed slightly in Scotland, with unlimited outdoor exercise, I’ve still been relying on a lot of home-based exercise to try to keep myself fit for getting back into the hills. I am lucky that there are small…
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