This is a heads-up about fake AI accounts which have proliferated across social media. The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies. The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.

The Reapers - Foodways, seeds and their stories A very short 'film' I made 4 years ago (!) while covering a Gaelic work song during harvest gathering. vimeo.com/620046804?sh...

Scotlands not so clean water www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

Superb bit on the Natural Capital racket and the Kinrara sell out parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/04/o...

⛺ We partnered with Trek Scotland & Minreet Kaur for a first-time Munro wild camp in the Cairngorms. 🌄 Minreet's mum Pal is in remission. She's 75 in November - and is nails enough to attempt Bynack More in the dark! Watch this space for her full story. An inspiration! 👏 📸 @davidlintern.bsky.social

Last week, on a 2 day circuit of the feshie drainage

Spreads from the bumper edition of @tgomagazine.bsky.social loaded with poetry, boating, walking and scrambling… and our annual roundup of the best outdoor kit for 2025

Something I think about a lot, as a culture worker and an editorial gatekeeper - how to ensure others don’t fall into the same trap doors as I have. Looking forward to this book: open.substack.com/pub/darrenmc...

A recent post in the in-laws' family WhatsApp chat...

March for Palestine, Inverness, 10.5.25. A walk for all ages and creeds. Many moving speeches, some highlighting the obvious historical links between land politics in Scotland and Palestine. (Pix grabbed on the 35mm fixie while helping out marshalling)

my first newsletter in about 20 months! News & Views - 2023-2025 mailchi.mp/61df020a9e0a...

Bivvy bag scenes from a favourite place

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Food… Politics… Environment… Marmot ontology! New May issue of @tgomagazine.bsky.social focuses on National Parks, including an alt take on the GR54 in the French Haute Alps. We are what we eat, make sure it’s wholesome: www.google.com/search?q=tgo...

RAF and mountain rescue veteran David “Heavy” Whalley, who helped save hundreds of lives during his career, has died at the age of 72. A previous editor of The Great Outdoors magazine, Cameron McNeish, remembers a friend, colleague and a gentleman of the hills.

🌄#TheGreatOutdoors invites young photographers aged 15-25 to submit your favourite landscape photograph to be published in our magazine and win £75! 🥾Pick your best shot of mountains that move you & send it with 100 words describing the moment to [email protected]. 📸@veritymilligan.bsky.social

Sad to hear of Heavy's passing this morning. Here's an interview for @walkhighlands.co.uk from 2022. He was lovely company, and hugely empathetic. We made his portrait at Ryvoan bothy, trying to show the light and shadow of a life well lived. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/heavy-w...

A few images from last week's high pressure bubble, 3 days in the north west, a long way from the road

Suffering fux Batman, the latest innovative partnership where Rewilding Britain throw hard fought grass roots Access Campaigns under the bus is super awesome is it not

On top of total capture of COP by the fossil fuel industry, we now have "Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit." At what point do we acknowledge what is now plainly obvious: that this is not the solution, but a big part of the problem, a coverup for BAU? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Last week, we said goodbye to one of Scotland's finest www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/remembe...

‘Natural Capital’ is bankrupt…https://parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/03/08/the-scottish-wildlife-trusts-purchase-of-inverbroom-and-natural-capital/

Its time for the bi annual revelation on class and the arts: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Here's a reminder to not take yourself too seriously. Our egos get in the way too much of the time. This is obvious stuff, but it makes sense to reflect on it occasionally.

John King on Central Buttress Gully, back o' Braeraich, Friday 7/2/25

You say you can’t balance food production and have lynx well @johnswinney.bsky.social you are failing Scotland as every other European country manages it. More about sheep and votes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spiky, worthwhile long read on cultural memory, from turn of century colonialism to Musk and AfD www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Photograph of the Druidic stone circle at Penmaenmawr, near Conwy, North Wales, by Godfrey Bingley, 1896

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David Solomon: "My presence in the mountains carries a message" | TGO Magazine www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/david-s...

Ignore the 'blue monday' BS, and choose Bluebird Monday instead... Read Anna Wells' full feature on her record breaking winter round, from our print magazine & now online for free, and with bonus video. Password: BluebirdMonday www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/inspiration-...

NEW: Tomorrow the tech gods will ascend to the presidential dais. The image of the bros + Trump is going to be seared into our brains. It's up to us now. My eve-of-inauguration post open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

A fantastic bowl of Quinoa youtu.be/TqZpi8zAqe0?...

some glad tidings at last? Inshallah www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

If Nicky Spinks isn’t your hero then you seriously need to have a word with yourself! Awesome! #spinerace @spinerace.bsky.social

1/n: Interesting feedback on an edit for a big upcoming story for @tgomagazine.bsky.social around use of the passive voice. Editing a story where English is not first language, and sent back to the author for comments. After alot of deliberation, I chose to move the collective we into singular I...

Hallo - Britain's original outdoor magazine is bloomin' delighted to arrive on Bluesky, please give us a follow! We'll start sharing stories & skills advice soon. Want to know more in the meantime? - find us at www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com Here's a sneak preview of our new cover out soon ;)

Is it ok to admit to wanting a bit more wildness locally? Just a teensy tiny bit? Obviously this is a dick/power move to provoke a reaction, and lo: unequivocal condemnation from… um, wildlife and nature bodies. Interesting, Overton window shrinking times. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How it was on Monday

Thank you for being part of the resistance! Through solidarity, resistance, and unity, we rise together, stronger and unshaken.

Pity Farage wasn’t asked about this - he should be forced to own it @bbclaurak.bsky.social @theneweuropean.bsky.social

An incredible slice of bygone Glasgow life. Renfield St captured in glorious colour back in 1958. We're standing on the corner of St Vincent St outside where Bread Meats Bread is today. Across the road behind the tram we can see Piercy and Lawson's hat shop. 📷 Ian Semple

Who are Reform members? - older - not in London - hostile to net zero (much more so than Tory members) - economic Thatcherites (unlike the party’s target voters?) - like leaders “stirring up a bit of controversy”. - *very* online @timbale.bsky.social shares timely new research with us

Loads of hair ice growing from decaying twigs by the River Tay today. Caused by the fungus Exidiopsis effusa pushing freezing water from the pores in the wood.

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will (Gramsci)…

Photograph of a standing stone used in a wall on a farm at Llanllawer near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire by John Piper

Highly recommend this, on photographer Dan Winters - www.imdb.com/title/tt2954... I’m having lots of up close conversations about neurodivergence atm & I’ve worked in the arts my whole life. This doc is a spotlight on creative work as therapy, coping strategy, escape, tool for healing.