Members share their accounts of magical moments in wild places. Why not contribute your own?
Wild Moment: Edie Crosbie
Published: 2 Mar 2021
Winner of the 2021 John Muir Trust Wild Poetry Competition, English, P4-7 category - Edie Crosbie - writes about a scallop.
Wild Moment: Jell Ellis
Published: 27 Feb 2021
A short poem, written after an impromptu night-time walk up to the fields and woods, lured out by bright moonlight on a still cold winter night.
Wild Moment: Louise Scott
Published: 26 Feb 2021
A night spent sleeping in my car amongst the mountains of Skye inspired this poem.
My Nevis: Martin Haigh
Published: 18 Feb 2021
Helping us celebrate 21 years of looking after Nevis is Martin Haigh who shares his memories of climbing his 200th Munro – Ben Nevis
Wild Moment: Iona Mandal
Published: 12 Feb 2021
Iona has completed all three levels of the John Muir Award with a focus on poetry for her Conserver Award. She shares her favourite one here
Wild Moment: Terry McCabe
Published: 5 Feb 2021
"If you're very lucky the distant skirl of the pipes on the wind..." a poem about empty places celebrates life from the mountain top
Wild Moment: Bern Hellier
Published: 5 Feb 2021
A former Lake District National Park Voluntary Warden's poem recalls his first visit to Scotland: "I was blown away (not literally)"
Wild Moment: John Pearce
Published: 5 Feb 2021
"Too soon, like you, we’ll be grits and muddy remnants..." Read a love poem for Ben Hope and Ben Klibreck
Wild Moment: Bern Hellier
Published: 4 Feb 2021
A red-letter day on Helvellyn, featuring a temperature inversion and broken spectre, brightens up his 'dark materials'
My Nevis: Pam Beattie
Published: 27 Jan 2021
Helping us celebrate 21 years of looking after Nevis is Pam Beattie who shares her memories of climbing her 94th Munro – Ben Nevis.
My Nevis: Tim Mackey
Published: 22 Jan 2021
Helping us celebrate 21 years of looking after Nevis is fell runner Tim Mackey, who painfully recalls his first Ben Nevis race.
My Nevis: Alex Gillespie
Published: 22 Jan 2021
Helping us celebrate 21 years of looking after Nevis is Alex Gillespie who shares his memories of the Ben from before 2000 when the Trust took it on.