It's a tough job, and highly skilled, but the effort and expense of building and maintaining upland paths often seems to be taken for granted. Here Dan Aspel speaks with expert Dougie Baird of the Outdoor Access Trust For Scotland, on what it takes to restore badly worn trails, and a new campaign that's seeking not only to help protect one of Scotland's great mountains, but to reframe the conversation around how this vital work should be funded.
Press Release Boulder UK Youth Plywood Masters, 2 – 3 August 2025
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Fri Night Vid Mother Earth - 8b Trad in Australia
This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushland that has been...
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