I know from my own experience just how notoriously bad hillwalkers and climbers are at signing petitions, even when the subject of that petition directly affects them.

It would be great to meet up with some TGO readers in the next couple of weeks at a couple of talks I’m giving, one in Fort William and one in Stockport.

My apologies to Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner.

Congratulations to climbers Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner on their epic series of climbs on Ben Nevis last week.

I’m working through an interesting process at the moment, one that I’m partly enjoying and partly resisting.

Looks like being a decent weekend on the high tops of the UK.

Triple Echo Productions, who have put together my forthcoming programme for BBC2 Scotland and Sky Channel 990 called The Skye Trail, have put up a short clip of the show on their website.

There are so many issues connected to yesterday’s Scottish government announcement about the Beauly-Denny powerline that I’m not sure where to begin.

First day back in the TGO office and a mountain of emails to work through.

I hope all our readers had a fantastic Christmas.

Looks like my earlier blog about a snowy winter might have been prophetic.

Don’t forget the crampons practice

My air of depression over the future of Scotland’s wild land has been exacerbated by the news that Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister, has strung together a committee to ensure Scotland meets its pledge to reduce carbon gas emissions by 42% by 2020.

After the week from hell – much of it trying to meet deadlines associated with the Beta version of this website, I eventually escaped from the office last weekend and made my way south for the Backpackers Club Christmas Party.

It doesn’t feel as though much time has passed since I announced the birth of our last TGO website but such is the continual development of the internet and the growing expectancy of users that we’ve had to re-design more or less from scratch.