Active Outdoors

Hidden waterfalls and a series of intricate woodland paths make this a fascinating circuit of the Big Burn at Golspie.

This weekend sees the official launch of Scotland’s first formal canoe trail, stretching from Fort William to Inverness.

HIGH hills don’t have a monopoly on the best views. Often it’s lower summits that provide them, and that’s certainly the case with a Corbett neighbouring…

Crossing the Black Isle between the Cromarty and Beauly firths, this bike route follows some of the area’s quietest and most spectacular roads.

Following the Dunbeath Water, this unofficial heritage trail takes you years back into history and miles into the depths of the strath.

While most of us are looking for the safe slopes on a day in the winter mountains, Keith Miller is on a mission to find the most unstable slopes, the…

THE solitary stone sits alongside a couple of lonesome pines on a track high above the village of Cromdale on Speyside. Marked as Clach nam Piobair –…

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Villagers in Fochabers and Mosstodloch were celebrating last week when a long-awaited bypass was opened, taking traffic off what used to be the A96. The…

On the quiet side of Loch Ness, the forests around Inverfarigaig provide some of the most beautiful walking in the area.

THE mist parted suddenly and the summit pinnacle of Sgurr nan Clach Geala reared up like the prow of a great ship.

A winter skills course run by Glenmore Lodge, learning the basics of competent movement on the mountains in winter

Pedalling around Speyside on this great bike ride I was struck with a sudden burst of optimism about the year ahead.

Seventeen Jacobites are believed to have been shot dead at the Prisoners Stone in the bloody aftermath of the 1746 Battle of Culloden.

WITH snow and ice covering the Ullapool road early on a winter’s morning, I was seriously worried whether I’d be able to reach the start of my walk in…

Over the past year the Active Outdoors team have enjoyed a number of adventures across the Highlands and Moray. Here is a selection of photos from a fantastic…

The minor road between Lybster and Watten holds happy memories for me from a previous bike trip from Aviemore up to John O’Groats.

As we turned the corner, a wall of heavy snow greeted us and the road went from black to pure white in seconds. And that was just on the way to this fabulous…

J?OHN shook me awake. After a night of fitful sleep in the tent I had fallen into a dream-filled slumber and didn’t hear the alarm. ?It was 4 o’clock…