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A SnowFactory in action PIC: Ski Scotland

Skiing in Scotland: Are ‘skier days’ stats still a valid way of assessing a ski ...

The view form the start gate, Freeride World Tour qualifier, Obertauern, April 2024 PIC: Flo Gassner / Freeride World Tour

Travel: The Beatles’ favourite ski resort eyes a new era

Sam Christopherson on his way to the nose PIC: Roger Cox / The Scotsman

Surfing: Scotland’s 2024 longboard champions to be crowned in Pease peelers

The Aurora Borealis, commonly known as the Northern Lights, as seen in the sky above Kiruna, Sweden PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Book review: Atoms of Delight: Ten Pilgrimages in Nature, by Kenneth Steven

Trillevallen, Sweden PIC: Roger Cox / The Scotsman

Travel: Trillevallen, the Swedish ski resort that time forgot

Philip Hughes in Antarctica PIC: Courtesy of the Artist

Philip Hughes’s well-travelled notebooks to visit Stromness

Right on cue, the sun starts to break through as the Maverick event gets under way at Glencoe PIC: Andy Meldrum / Glencoe Mountain Resort

Glencoe 'Maverick' event kicks off Scottish freeride season

Snowboarding through trees is thrilling but you have to keep your wits about you

Passions: When snowboarding through trees, remember to aim for the gaps

The Solway Firth PIC: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Book review: Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape, by Fiona Stafford

Caitlin Connor in action PIC: Robert Hendriksen

Caitlin Connor: The gifted Scottish ice climber chipping away at the world circu...

A view of the Napo River as it runs through the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. PIC: Rodrigo Buendia / AFP via Getty Images

Book review: Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature, edited by Durre Shahwar and N...

Rachel Hazell swimming off the coast of Iona PIC: Hannah Nunn

Today's Changing Room: How a lockdown sea swimming ritual turned into a book

A still from Thrawn, the new film from Hannah Bailey

New Scottish snowboard film stars Lesley McKenna and Beira, goddess of winter

The Radical Road and Salisbury Crags PIC: Colin Hattersley / National World

Brendan Paddy of Ramblers Scotland on the campaign to reopen the Radical Road

Beinn Ghlas

Celebrating 90 years since the first Scottish ski race, the 1934 Killin Slalom

One of the A-Frame Club cabins at Winter Park, Colorado, designed by Skylab Architects PIC: Stephan Werk

Creative white spaces: quiet triumphs of domestic ski architecture

North Uist PIC: Roger Cox / The Scotsman

From paragliding to wave-riding: 2023's best books about the great outdoors

Glencoe Ski Patroller James Munro, on the Spring Run piste, at Glencoe Mountain Resort. PIC: Stevie McKenna / Ski-Scotland

Scottish Ski & Board 2023/24 e-mag

Passions: It can take hours of effort for a few seconds of weightlessness

A full price one day ski pass at Steamboat Springs, Colorado (left) will cost $269 (£213) this season. Meanwhile an equivalent pass at Glenshee (right) costs just £35. PICS: Roger Cox / The Scotsman

Skiing: The best way to beat lift pass price hikes? Ski and board in Scotland

Paragliders competing in the Sports-class Racing Series Gin Edition, Montclar, France, June 2023. PIC: Marcus King / Cross Country Magazine

Book review: Head in the Clouds, edited by Andrew Craig and Hugh Miller

The view from above at Glenshee PIC: Stevie McKenna / Ski-Scotland

Is Glenshee really the best Scottish ski resort?

Skiing: AI might destroy us, but first it's going to make snowsports better

Chile, 2009 by Chris Burkard PIC: Courtesy of Chris Burkard / gestalten

Surf photographer Chris Burkard on his new book, The Oceans

Roger Cox's home-made handplanes

Passions: Just when I should be making surfing easier, I take up handplaning

Stewart Crichton, Ian Wishart and George Law surfing in Aberdeen, 1968 PIC: Andy Bennetts

Book review: Surfing Scotland, by Malcolm Findlay and Andy Bennetts

Detail of Sam Howard's Portrait of Scottish surfing pioneer Willie Tait PIC: Samuel Howard

Photographer Samuel Howard brings Scottish surf scene into focus

Godrevy Lighthouse near St Ives in Cornwall, which inspired Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse PIC: Gonzales Macias / Picador

Literary lights: new book illuminates the enduring appeal of lighthouses

Artist George Nuku PIC: Stewart Attwood

How artist George Nuku is tackling plastic pollution one installation at a time

21st century surfers at Machrihanish PIC: Alex Hewitt / TSPL

The summer of ’69, when Scotland’s surfers first found waves on the west coast

Dougie Strang

Book review: The Bone Cave, by Dougie Strang

Iona Marble, Turquoise Bracelet and Urchin by Helen Mortley. Picture: Roger Cox

Passions: The beachcombing art of Mull's Helen Mortley

From left to right, George Law, Surfing Scotland author Andy Bennetts and Stuart Crichton, Aberdeen Beach, 1968 PIC: Copyright Andy Bennetts

Surfing Scotland: New book to chart the history of Scottish wave riding

Today's best surfing magazines show the way forward for print media

Dave Rastovich in The Family of Things PIC: Courtesy of Patagonia / The Roaring Journals

In the Family of Things: Dave Rastovich co-stars with critters in new surf film

Phoebe Strachan reched the last eight in the women's longboard category at Eurosurf 23 PIC: Malcolm Anderson

Reluctant longboarder Phoebe Strachan gives Scots a lift at Eurosurf​​​​​

The Scottish surf team's Mark Boyd, looking more than comfortable in powerful waves on Scotland's North Shore PIC: Malcolm Anderson / Scottish Surfing Federation

Scotland’s best surfers to compete at one of Portugal’s literary hotspots

A train leaves the Tibetan capital Lhasa on its way to Beijing PIC: Peter Parks / AFP via Getty Images)

Slow Travel vs Fast Travel: the difference isn’t as obvious as you'd think

Dreamy early season conditions at Glencoe PIC: Stevie McKenna / Ski Scotland

What the 2022-23 Scottish ski season taught us about snowmaking

Tarawa, capital of the Republic of Kiribati and one of the many islands featured in Sea Change by Christine Gerhardt PIC: Torsten Blackwood / AFP via Getty Images

Book reviews: Sea Change | The Language of Trees

Craig McLachlan PIC: Lewis Arnold

Scottish surf champ Craig McLachlan is ready to take on Europe

Writer James Crawford.

Book review: Wild History – Journeys into Lost Scotland, by James Crawford

Among other things, Linda Cracknell fixes her powers of description on the tiny, "tangly forests" of moss and lichen growing on the slopes of Sgòr Gaoith in the Cairngorms PIC: Damien Meyer / AFP via Getty Images

Book review: Writing Landscape, by Linda Cracknell

Mark Boyd will be the man to beat at this year's Scottish National Surfing Championships PIC: Malsurf

Celebrating 50 years of the Scottish National Surfing Championships

The view from the top at the Verbier Xtreme - the final stop on the Freeride World Tour PIC: Dom Daher

​​Freeride contest season draws to a close in Switzerland and Scotland

In addition to surfing, spearfishing and freediving are important parts of the Staunch universe PIC: Janeanne Gilchrist / Staunch Industries

Staunch Industries: the Scottish surf brand that’s getting back to its roots