Winter ML
Sea, River and Canoe Guide
Mountain Bike Trail Cycle leader
Snow Sport Scotland Ski Instructor
Single Pitch Climbing Instructor
BASP First Aid

I have spent most of my years guiding in Scotland but I have also guided regularly in Australia and lived and worked over there as a guide for nearly three years.  I have also guided in the USA and of course guided in the South West of England.  Personally I have been fortunate to have wandered most of the UK, some time in Africa and Asia and bits in Europe.

I’m currently on that right now with my three daughters.  They are now of an age where our adventures can be truly challenging and though I have done many trips that have been ‘challenging’, ‘dangerous’, ‘ardious’ and for ‘exstensive periods of time’ my biggest adventures have been with my three girls as I share their first steps into Scotland’s wilderness.

I would like to think it would be local folk lore and legend but my friends like to tease me that I am bit of geek when it comes to technical knowledge of my trade.  I have to know how something works and why it is useful.

I appear in a few guides with first ascents on rock and river.  I have been in Trail a couple of times as a feature and appeared on Radio Scotland Outdoors shows.