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Roger Cox: When it comes to recording the magnitude of surfing exploits, size really matters

ONE rainy day last November, I started receiving a steady trickle of emails with links to the same jaw-dropping photograph: a surfer in a black-and-yellow wetsuit skittering down the face of a huge, aquamarine wall of water, looking for all the world like an exotic insect fleeing the maw of an about-to-snap venus flytrap.

Roger Cox: Plentiful snow is great, but if skiers can’t get to it they will slope off

Remember a few weeks ago, when I said the 2011/12 Scottish ski season had been a disaster? Well, I was wrong.

The 2009 World Stone Skimming Championships took place on Easdale Island near Oban. Pictured is a view of the crowd and skimming area during the womens competition. Picture by JANE BARLOW

Roger Cox: Enjoying the great outdoors is an art not a science, but for Generation Xbox, the formula now exists

ONE of the most effective ways to suck the magic out of a much-loved activity is to explain it in simple, ‘how to’ terms.

The field heads out across the beach towards the Black Rock. Picture: Andy Menzies

Roger Cox: A race beneath the shadow of the Forth bridges, one of the “best 500 runs in the world,” is 25 this year Picture gallery

I’M a control freak”, says John McKay, “and I’m quite happy to be called that in print.” To organise something like the AGR Black Rock ‘5’ for the last 21 years, as McKay has done, you’d need to be.

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