Iceland Road-trip
Highlights from a 6-day road-trip around western Iceland.
Trekking & Via Ferrata in Tre Cima, Dolomites
We returned to the Dolomites this year for our annual boys weekend away, heading for the Tre Cima range north-west of Cortina. Although early in the season and some huts not yet open, we’d booked in to Refugio Lavaredo which sits at the foot of the iconic Tre Cima triple Read More …
FitBark – Dog Activity & Sleep Tracker Review
FitBark is small waterproof activity and sleep tracker for dogs. Many of us are used to tracking our own activity with an ever-increasing range of trackers from Fitbit, Garmin etc. as well as step-counters that are native on most smartphones. I already use an Apple Watch myself so I’m used Read More …
Triglav Traverse – Climbing the Highest Peak in Slovenia
Early each year we start to think about possible destinations for our annual long weekend jaunt to somewhere in European mountains. After several years trips the challenge is to find somewhere that we haven’t been to, has decent mountains (ideally fairly high with huts) and reasonable regular/cheap flights. After the Read More …
Water, Water, Everywhere – Elan Valley Packrafting & Backpacking
Elan Valley Packrafting from Nigel Gray on Vimeo. Outside of the Lake District the Elan Valley area of mid Wales has probably the most concentrated expanse of water in England & Wales. So it seemed logical to bring my packraft for a weekend backpacking in mid September. My two Read More …
Mount Toubkal, Morocco
This years mountain weekend was a little further afield, aiming to summit Mount Toubkal, the highest peak in North Africa at 4,167m. Eminently doable in a long weekend we flew to Marrakesh and immediately took a taxi to the village of Imlil in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. The Read More …
Suunto Traverse GPS watch – First Impressions Review
I was one of several people to have recently been invited by Suunto to test and review their new Suunto Traverse GPS watch. As a long term user of a Suunto Core that usually accompanies me on my outdoor adventures I was curious to see whether the addition of GPS Read More …
Video – Lapland Packrafting Wilderness trip
A short video of our week long hiking and packrafting trip across northern Lapland in early September. Hopefully it will give a sense of what an amazing landscape we traversed – across the north-west finger of Finland and into Norway. For more info on our trip see my earlier Read More …
Lapland Packrafting Adventure – Part 2
To read Part 1 of our trip click here To see a video of our trip click here Day 4 – Varitgielas-Geatkejohka After a quiet night we left the hut and headed further north-east ascending gently toward the Norwegian border, taking in a detour to inspect an empty border hut. We crossed a Read More …
Lapland Packrafting Adventure – Part 1
To see a video of our trip click here We had been deliberating getting away in September and I’d just taken delivery of my new packraft – an Alpackaraft Yukon Yak – when I noticed @korpijaakko was advertising two spare spaces on his week long hike/packraft trip across northern Lapland Read More …