Wild Lochaber Blogs
The latest bleats from the sheep on the street...
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
We have put together a collection of Lochaber blogs to highlight the traditions, culture and wildlife in the various regions, including the West Coast Islands.
We show entries from the last 100 days, organised by region, topic and blog. The titles and text snippets give a taste of each entry with direct links to the main blog entry on the host website. We hope you will find time to explore the full articles and further information on the host blog sites.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for blogs you would like to see here.
Simon Willis
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We are sitting like vagrants under the road bridge at Scissors Crossing. Three of us are avoiding the blistering heat of a desert day before a long climb into the San Felipe Hills. One of our small band of hikers, who rejoices in the trail name Pathfinder and who had already...
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I was recently asked "How did you train for the TNR". It's a good question, especially when people in the video say, "you can't train for this!". My reply emphasised that preparation was as important to me as training, so I'll cover both of those here. However, I...
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We like to think we're safe in wild places. Mostly we are, but every now and again someone has an unpleasant experience like the one alongside, shared on our Torino Nice Rally WhatsApp group. This reportedly happened in the town of Tende.I experienced nothing approaching this, but...
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I cycled the Torino Nice Rally in September 2022. I took ten days to complete my ride, which was deliberately slow, as no one ever returned from such an amazing adventure saying "I wish I'd gone faster", it was always the reverse.You can see the Short videos I shot and edited during the ride...
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Organisers of cycling events, an environmentally aware bunch, increasingly insist their competitors reach the start without using aircraft. The Torino Nice Rally might go this way, although the organiser James Olsen tells me he wants to keep it rideable in 5-days (just!) so people can...
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At home in Scotland, I found it hard to get my head around the nature of the Torino Nice Rally. Now I think of it as four, high-level Italian military gravel roads (Strada Assietta, Strada Cannoni, Altiplano della Gardetta and Via del Sale) linked together by a series of road cols, most...
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Always Another Adventure / Sunart Media: Privacy PolicyOur contact details Name: Simon Willis Address: 4 Upper Scotstown, Strontian, PH36 4JB UKPhone Number: 44 7595 250213 E-mail: alwaysanotheradventure@outlook.com The type of personal information we collect ...
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It has become one of Scotland’s great off-road cycling trails. Yet planning a ride can be tricky, partly due to the fickle weather, but mainly due to the mix of surfaces, from tarmac to mud, made trail to loose stones. Most cyclists wonder, ‘what bike should I...
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This is where you'll find links to resources that will help you plan and complete some of the adventures in my videos. You'll hopefully recognise them by the video thumbnail.TORINO NICE RALLYTHE CALEDONIA WAYLOCH NESS 360THE MORAY GRAVEL WAYTHE KINTYRE GRAVEL WAY
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These are the Rules for the giveaway running on the Always Another Adventure YouTube channel from 12th December 2021.The prize is a used set of Kitchen Sink bikepacking handlebars with front loop by Redsfity sports. They are 44mm and you can find full specifications on the Redshift...
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It was Sean who devised this route. I’m not shifting blame you understand, I’m giving him the credit, because we ended up with one of the best four-day Autumn rides I’ve done in Scotland.We’re fortunate enough to have some epic bikepacking routes in this country - An Turas Mor, the Highland...
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Think of it as a mid-life crisis motorbike, but without the motor. Actually, don't. I've already had several of them and I'm probably past mid-life now. Just think of it as a treat to myself. My excellent road bike is showing its age. My gravel bike is great, but a...
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In June/July 2021 Hannah and Frodo completed the whole trail in under two weeks. They have some great advice for doing the shuttle at the end of the trip, and some warnings for anyone thinking portages around tricky bits might be easy - they're not. Hannah has kindly...
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How big is kayak fishing in the UK? More to the point - how big will it become? Because in the US it is big. Pesda Press (who also publish my book) clearly think there is potential to grow. Hence this new publication in their Practical Manual series. It's the first on the subject this side of...
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The Caledonia Way is a somewhat unusual long distance cycling route. While it's mostly on minor roads, you can't ride the whole thing on a road bike. There are at least three sections where it heads into distinctly off-road territory. Not full mountain bike...
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The Kintyre Way was ahead of its time. Established in 2006, it's a good 100 mile walking route, usually split over seven days. However, since its inception a new breed of outdoor transport has appeared, the gravel bike. It's a hybrid of road and mountain bikes,...
The Rum Ranger Diaries
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12 Days of Christmas Wild Day 4: 28 Dec: Looking up: Wind-sculpted clouds. As a photographer, you always wish for interesting skies, and today’s were stunning! I see a vague whale shape in this sky, and it reminded me of a sci-fi short story I read years ago: whales had been transported along...
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#zara #princesszara #beachlife #walking #sundaywalk #seashore https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Gx-y5nd2Q/?igshid=12bl9kueiyp97
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#cowsofinstagram #ridgelineposse #bovineaudience #walking #sundaywalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B6GzZf-nWrT/?igshid=12k0izlh7sndn
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Alarmingly more cattle gathered on the ridge in a very short space of time! #cowsofinstagram #ridgelineposse #bovineaudience #howmanycows #walking #sundaywalk https://www.instagram.com/p/B6G0CLFnVI8/?igshid=1426ssicrgq8x
