UK Outdoors Folk
Slowly expanding list of people and brands on Bluesky who write about the outdoors in some capacity. (Feel free to send me suggestions for additions).
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@adambutterworth.bsky.social
@dannyoutdoors.bsky.social
Keen for all things nature, access and the outdoors, especially those involving rocks, ice and snow. 🧗 ⛰️ 🌳 👟 🦦 🥾 Land Reform Act (Scotland) Act 2003 fanboy. Rehoming lost gloves since 1986. 🧤 My views, surprisingly, are mine.
@timhannigan.bsky.social
Writer: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, Indonesia; academic stuff on travel writing. From Cornwall. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
@peakdistrict.bsky.social
The latest from PDNP. Account & email not monitored 24/7. No emergency use. Press via media@peakdistrict.gov.uk only.
@danzep.bsky.social
Writer & Broadcaster – Edinburgh Holloway • The Beechwood Airship Interviews • Climbing Days • Outpost • Overnight (2025) Only After Dark – BBC R4
@rachelhewitt.bsky.social
Writing books about women, feminism, trauma, abuse, grief, recovery, joy, the great outdoors, running, sport, history, maps. Free weekly Substack: https://rachelhewitt.substack.com
@maxleonard.com
Writer. Mountain Style (Isola 2024), A Cold Spell (Bloomsbury 2023). Previous inc. Higher Calling, Bunker Research, Lanterne Rouge etc. I also run Isola Press. https://linktr.ee/m_xl
@heatherdawe.bsky.social
Writer, artist, climber, data scientist. Generally absorbed by mountains - literature, painting… - with occasional wanderings into AI.
@slowwaysuk.bsky.social
We're creating a network of 9,000+ #SlowWays walking routes that connect all of the UK's towns and cities, starting with GB. Up for helping us? linktr.ee/slowwaysuk www.slowways.org
@ramblersscotland.bsky.social
Our charity is proud to: 🥾Break down barriers to walking 👟Fight for the places we love to walk 🗺️Champion access rights 🚶🏽♀️ Run 3,500 group walks a year across Scotland ramblers.org.uk/scotland
@calmandfearless.bsky.social
Writer. Loves the spikier bits of the planet. Bath addict. Contributor to Guardian Country Diary. Represented by David Godwin Associates.
@ashrouten.com
Adventure Writer // Arctic Travel // Words in National Geographic UK, Sidetracked, ExplorersWeb, FT, The Guardian, The Telegraph etc // Research Fellow in Public Health // PhD // 🌐 https://ashrouten.com 📬 https://ashrouten.substack.com
@natalie-berry.com
Edinburgh-based journalist, translator, climber. Words: NYTimes, The Guardian, WIRED UK, FT HTSI, Nat Geo, The Fence etc. Languages, travel, adventure, science, environment, animals, current affairs. https://www.natalie-berry.com/
@markhorrell.bsky.social
Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably) | Occasionally frivolous
@alpineclublib.bsky.social
The Alpine Club Library - devoted to mountains, mountaineering and the history of both. Part of @alpineclub.bsky.social Open to visitors & club members on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays.
@jamesdaustin.bsky.social
This again. Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
@mikeparker.bsky.social
Writer in the damp Welsh hills. Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell? "No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
@issygapp.bsky.social
Environmental Art Historian (she/her), University of Aberdeen | A CIRCUMPOLAR LANDSCAPE (2024) | Editor for NiCHE Canada | PI: From the Floe Edge & Teaching Arctic Environments ❄️ | isabellegapp.com
@sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social
Mostly books, history, and nature. Politics, too. Lecturer, History of journalism. My new book, Wildly Different, about women and the wild, came out 4 March 2025: "brilliantly dispatched" - Financial Times.
@katejarmstrong.bsky.social
Writer. ‘The Storyteller' (2016; @PrizeRofC longlisted). In-progress book about grief, collapse, recovery, and big mountains. Bridport memoir award runner up. https://linktr.ee/beyondthemountain
@cjdrury.bsky.social
Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
@tomrallen.bsky.social
Explorer, author, trail prospector & travel writer. Currently in post as Expeditions & Fieldwork Manager @rgsibg.bsky.social. Mainly here to point you elsewhere. https://tomallen.info/link-in-bio
@kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social
Writer and academic. New book Pathfinding March 2025. Author of Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader. Writing courses at kerriandrews.co.uk Order Pathfinding here https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/9781783968428-s
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies. PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network. uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
@waymarks.bsky.social
Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
@alpineclick.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Fi, an alpine fine art Photographer 🏔️ FRGS, RPS, BMC & Alpine Club with exhibition images at Insta@FiAlpine 🤍 http://www.fiphotos.org 📸 Also an 🇬🇧 Arts Advocate for 12 years and a Swiss chocolate fan (forever). https://www.fiphotos.org/my-journal/
@walkhighlands.co.uk
The website for enjoying Scotland’s Great Outdoors, on foot. Views are not ours - they belong to everyone.
@alastairhumphreys.bsky.social
Living adventurously, writing books. www.alastairhumphreys.com
@kendalmountainfest.bsky.social
The world's largest cultural gathering for the Outdoor sector. FILMS • SPEAKERS • BOOKS • ART• PHOTOGRAPHY• WORKSHOPS • BASECAMP BRAND VILLAGE • SPORTS ACTIVITIES Festival dates: 20 – 23 Nov 2025 Watch Festival films online via – Kendal Mountain Player
@thevagrantlichenologist.com
Lichenologist - FRGS - Mountain Leader - Outdoor Activities Engagement for the British Lichen Society Blog: www.thevagrantlichenologist.com Insta: www.instagram.com/cragology/ Web: www.cragology.rocks
@alpineclub.bsky.social
The world’s first mountaineering club, founded in the UK in 1857. At the leading edge of worldwide mountaineering & exploration. Cover 📷 George Cave
@christownsend.bsky.social
Outdoor writer & photographer, passionate about wild places, long distance walking, & rewilding. https://www.christownsendoutdoors.com
@adambutterworth.bsky.social
Tweets about rocks, film and politics Editor of the Alpine Journal. Digital and Comms for the Alpine Club, Mount Everest Foundation & others. Opinions are my girlfriend's, but you wouldn't know her. She posts on a different app.