In the middle of February 2025, Hannah Bailey and Lesley McKenna of Wandering Workshops invited me to Aviemore to go splitboarding up Cairngorm; it was mid-winter, there was bound to be snow, right? Wrong.

What ensued was a very Scottish adventure of hiking across heather, boards strapped to our backs to find a snow filled gully to carve a few turns before hiking back out. It was windy, it sleeted, we had blazing sun, it was perfect.