highlands – Page 15 – John D Burns

The demise of the mountain bothy

March 19, 2013John D Burns 38

There is something special in the stillness of a winter’s night, when frost renders the burns silent and dusts the grass with transient [...]

March 10, 2013johndburns 15

Looking down through the ice that masks the surface of the river Kingie I marvel at the clarity of the water. I can [...]

February 24, 2013johndburns 14

I’m afraid there’s no way round it. I’m going to have to tell you, and you, dear reader, are just going to have [...]

A challenge was laid down and, as ever, I couldn’t resist it. Here is a little 15 min audio version of my blog [...]

There is one activity us mountaineers don’t talk about much. It gives us such joy that we’re afraid that if we let the [...]

I’m late, an hour late arriving on the ridge that overlooks Bearnais bothy. An hour shouldn’t matter much, but this hour does because [...]

I posted this on the UKClimbing website and thought you might enjoy it Mountain climbing is such fun I think I’ll do it [...]

I took my primus stove for a walk last Sunday, the weather forecast having dramatically changed for the worse and ruling out the [...]

Last weekend I was alone in the Scottish mountains. At one point I was high on a narrow ridge of windblown snow with [...]