Adventure sports

Get Active, Get Outdoors & Go For It with VisitScotland Adventure Pass!

9 Mar 2009

Get Active Get active in the New Year and explore some of Scotland’s great variety of adventure activities, whilst taking in the awe-inspiring landscapes that Scotland has to offer. With over 10,000kms of coastline, spectacular scenery, and…

Cool Sports

19 Feb 2009

Baseball It's not just rounders you know. Beyond its similarities, baseball is a game of skill, speed and tactics. Find out how by heading along to the Edinburgh Devils or the Glasgow Baseball Association, where beginners are always welcome. See…

Scottish Surfing

10 Apr 2008

Even when the surf’s up in Scotland, chances are the temperatures won’t be. But with advancements in wetsuits over the past few years, it’s now possible to surf the Scottish coastline year-round. Fuelled I suspect by seeing one too many photos of…

WIN a luxury adventure break for 4 to the sandy beaches of St Andrews, Scotland

20 Feb 2009

Get Healthy, Get Outdoors and Go For It with the VisitScotland Adventure Pass this Spring. Explore Scotland’s great variety of adventure activities, whilst taking in the awe-inspiring landscapes that Scotland has to offer. With over 10,000kms of…

Air apparent

2 Oct 2008

I am so stupid. I’m shuffling forward on a bench in a King Air plane above Hollister, California. Only now, at 15,000 feet, after a quarter of an hour of shivery anticipation, and a mere stride from an open door to the sky, do I realise the implications…

Three to try: adventure sports

17 Jul 2008

Transgression Park Head to the top of Edinburgh’s Ocean Terminal for a spin on your BMX, skateboard or inline skates. Not yet a consummate professional? Lessons and equipment hire are available for all three ‘freesports’. There is also a designated…

Get Healthy, Get Outdoors and Go For It with the VisitScotland Adventure Pass

13 Apr 2009

FREE VisitScotland Adventure Pass for everyone!

WIN a luxury self-catering adventure break to Perthshire with VisitScotland Adventure Pass

31 Mar 2009

VisitScotland has teamed up with Equazen to give you an action-packed adventure break in Perthshire, Scotland. Equazen produce healthy fish oil products, which will help keep you fighting fit and ready for Scotland’s Great Outdoors. WIN an…

WIN a 4-night adventure break for 4 to the eco-friendly Loch Lomond Waterfront Lodges worth £1,800

16 Mar 2009

Explore a thrilling variety of adventure activities, whilst taking in the awe-inspiring landscapes that Scotland has to offer. With over 10,000kms of coastline, spectacular scenery, and unspoilt countryside, it’s no wonder that Scotland is known as…

Streets of glory - Edinburgh Rat Race

17 Jul 2008

Edinburgh will be reclaimed by hundreds of scurrying creatures this month. Claire Sawers meets the people behind the Rat Race

Scottish Islands Peaks Race 2008

18 Jun 2008

The List’s own Adam Coulson throws the common sense rulebook overboard to compete in the Scottish Islands Peaks Race which took place between 16-19 May 2008.

What are you doing for Erskine week?

22 May 2008

Help raise funds to care for deserving ex-Service men and women throughout Scotland. 1st-8th June 2008

Mountain biking

23 Aug 2007

You’re tired and you’re sore. Nights on the vodka still don’t mix with nights on the air mattress. Sunlight splits the trees as the smells of pine forest, fresh earth and your own Red Bull–tinged breath fill your nostrils. It’s daft o’clock in the…

Laid-back bikes

18 Jun 2007

Remember that ad from the early 80s flogging the Yellow Pages where the kid asks for a bike for his birthday? The grim up north dad is banging on about a saddle looking like a razor blade but buys his lad one anyway, mumbling, ‘Well, I were right about…

Activity Sports - Mountain Biking

Easy Rider

27 Mar 2007

In Glentress forest, in the Tweed valley, a series of mountain bike runs have been created on Forestry Commission land, just outside Peebles. At the bottom of the hillside, the ‘Hub in the Forest’ is an activity centre that services the needs of the…

Activity Sports - Snowboarding

Lower Slopes Drifter

27 Mar 2007

David Laing attempts to master one of the fastest growing sports in the world

Activity Sports - Off Road Driving

Crash Course

27 Mar 2007

Despite getting stuck in a stream, Claire Prentice enjoys a lesson in off road driving

Deerstalker

Rural rat race

12 Mar 2007

If you go down to the woods this month, be sure of a big surprise. Unless, of course, you are one of the 500-plus loons who have already signed up for the Deerstalker, an assault course through the countryside, forests and hills around the Borders…