Fields of Interest
Munros, Corbetts, through routes
Galloway Hills, Lowthers, Moffat
Picos de Europa, Bernina Alps, Crete, Tatras
and bivvybag travel
Lake District, Skye, Highlands, Europe
but only when it's fairly easy
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In 1995 I won the Fell Running Association's Long Distance Trophy for a 10-day run over all the hills of Southern Scotland - a journey of 450 miles with over 90,000ft of ascent. My recent books include Life and Times of the Black Pig (a 'cultural biography' of Ben Macdui); Three Peaks, Ten Tors (the National Three Peaks, the Yorkshire Three Peaks, and a whole lot else)The Riddle of Sphinx Rock (the life and times of Great Gable); and The Book of the Bivvy (on tentless travel). I write in Lakeland Walker, TGO (formerly The Great Outdoors), Trail, Cumbria and elsewhere. |
| Turnbull is ultimately worth reading, not just because of the clever quirkiness of his thoughts and phrases but because his night yomps and his high bivvies and his off-beat, off-beaten-track jaunts show that he retains that most basic of outdoor-writer essentials: a simple love of being out there, somewhere, on the surface of the planet. |
| The Angry Corrie, 1999 |
What's new or newishNEW is my webpage about my walk along the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, part of the Mountains to the Sea Trail, June 2008; words and pictures. NEWish is my webpage about my walk along the John Muir Trail in California, September 2007. Also NEW is my article 'Cairngorms Crag n' Bag' which won the Outdoor Writers' and Photographers' Guild Award (Cicerone Award for Best Words & Pictures Feature) 2007. It should be on the OWPG website soon. Or you can download its 600KB file.NEWISH is the webpage about my book Three Peaks, Ten Tors which was published in 2007. The National Three Peaks by Public Transport challenge described in that book has its own website www.3peaksbypublictransport.co.uk. A podcast, of me discussing Three 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). The
Podzine #10
Download MP3 File A different podcast of me discussing bivvybag nights is on www.backpackinglight.co.uk (page called 'talking about kit') and you have to scroll down down down looking for the mud-coloured clickbox. The interview is 31 min and the download file is 14MB. |
What's hereThe linkbar at the top takes you to the two main directories of the site. One page lists my published books, and for most of them you can click on for a page with pictures from the book and an extract. Another allows you to chose among the areas covered by my hill photos; from there you can link to pages with clickable thumbnails of some actual images. The links page has sites relevant to Outdoor UK, with a section intended to be useful to those planning a long-distance walk through the Scottish Highlands. It also has links into some of my recent articles available online, as well as to my favourite recent piece, A Long Walk - and a Broad Stand about Coleridge and his 9-day fellwalk of 1802. 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 site.The rest of this page is devoted to miscellaneous boasting about my wide-ranging fields of interest and my awards. If you want to see what I look like, there are some pictures on the contact page. |
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Fields of Interest |
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Scottish Highlands Munros, Corbetts, through routes |
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Southern Uplands Galloway Hills, Lowthers, Moffat |
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Lake District |
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Somerset/Dorset |
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Coast to Coast routes (all UK) |
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Hot rocky places in Europe Picos de Europa, Bernina Alps, Crete, Tatras |
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Backpacking and bivvybag travel |
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Scrambling Lake District, Skye, Highlands, Europe but only when it's fairly easy |
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| OWG Award for Excellence (Words & Pictures feature) | 2007 | A Cairngorms Crag n Bag download (600KB) |
| OWG Award for Excellence (Series of Articles) | 2005 | Lakeland - Also Famous For... |
| OWG Award for Excellence (Outdoor Book) | 2001 | The Book of the Bivvy |
| OWG/9feet Award for Excellence (Outdoor Book) | 2000 | Coast-to-coasting (with John Gillham) |
| Highly Commended Lakeland Book of the Year Award | 1999 | Long Days in Lakeland |
| OWG/COLA Award for Excellence (Guidebook) | 1998 | Coast to Coast Trail Guide |
| FRA Long-distance Trophy | 1994 |
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