Term: outdoor-literature
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A journalist, a real estate advisor, an interior decorator, a writer, and a business woman – we are all mothers. We are all on a...
A ptarmigan squawked from the nearby willow bushes. Squatting by the pan of water on the Coleman stove, I called my husky, Paris, and did...
As I picked my way carefully around the rocks on a trail that meandered in and out of a dry streambed I marveled at two...
A few weeks after giving birth to our second, I stood on top of a mountain. Denali, the highest peak in North America, hid behind...
A gaggle of wise-eyed Blackface Sheep watch my husband and me bustle into neon yellow boiler coats and black, knee-high wellies. The boiler coat is...
The wind blows fierce at 25 knots, strong enough for a Coast Guard small craft advisory. We’re heading straight into the wind so we must...
I only count when the going is tough and on this, the second day of our 8-day backcountry ski expedition in northern Sweden, the going...
My grandmother was 4 feet and 10 inches on a good day with a head full of short, bouncy curls and a laugh that sounded...
When Flóki Vilgerdarson set out from Denmark with his family in search of a rumoured land beyond the Faeroe Islands, he brought three ravens. It...
Almost accidentally, we pulled into the car park at Stoneyfield Farm, to a path on the headland of Stornoway Harbour. It was a path I’d...
It is Samhain, the threshold between summer and winter, light and dark, this world and the otherworld, and I am standing at the top of...
The path is marked at regular intervals by plaques bearing the symbol of the journey, a scallop half-shell, set into walls and street signposts.
My...
I am sat on an endless beach on the southern tip of Barbados watching the sun get lost in the waves. I’m with Carly, my...
Maybe I was being naive to think that it is as easily done as it is said. Or maybe I was grasping at straws seeking...