Chris Townsend Outdoors: What I've Been Reading Online No. 25

View up the Allt Druidh, Cairngorms, October 2

Another month passes. Autumn is well under way. And here's my next selection of online reading I've enjoyed.

HILLWALKING, LONG DISTANCE WALKING, CYCLE CAMPING, WILD CAMPING

On its fortieth anniversary Fiona Russell looks at the story of the West Highland Way.

Cycle touring and camping in the Highlands and Island with Kevin Rushby.

Advice from Ronald Turnbull on how to walk coast to coast across the Highlands

Patrick Baker on the challenges of a splendid high mountain crossing.

Interview with the author of the new book Wanderlust Europe, which I reviewed here.

Carey Davies on the morning after a night in Glen Feshie, on the trip I wrote about here.

Autumn colours, Strathspey, October 6

NATURE & CONSERVATION

Loch Insh Osprey

Merryn Glover on the ospreys of summer, now departed.

David Russell is revitalised in Ardnamurchan.

Trenchant comment and interesting words from Jim Crumley on the slaughter of wildlife by 'sporting' estates.

Beavers can create fireproof refuges says Ben Goldfarb.

Britain needs to grow more trees - are sheep farms the answer?

Environmental researcher Connie O'Neill and biologist Colin Osborne on turning land overgrazed by sheep into woodland.

Re-wild to mitigate the climate crisis, urge leading scientists

Research in the journal Nature shows the value of rewilding writes Guardian Environment correspondent Fiona Harvey.

Alex Roddie looks back at last summer

Sunset, Rothiemurchus Forest, Cairngorms, October 2

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