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On the last Sunday of June six friends, family and work colleagues rode off from The Bothy Bakery, Grantown on Spey on the inaugural Moray Trail Twenty20. The team consisted of John Davidson a friend and journalist from Inverness, my...
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This summer was my second season working as a Ranger at Philmont Scout Ranch, located in the northern New Mexico Rockies. My job is to take crews of 8-12 Scouts and adult advisors into the backcountry, teach them the skills...
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Testing out the pitch at home Recently, I finally received the 2p Haven tent. I have been watching a lot of videos of this very nice tent for the past few months and the wait is finally over. My dream...
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The AT on display I think most of us who started to seriously hike in 2015, still had a lot to learn. That is year when I heard the mountains calling. It was the same year that the YouTube explosion of...
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The author in the field getting ready for some Plein Air Painting When I first decided to go outside my studio to try plein air painting, I thought it would be easy. After all, I had spent a lot of...
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