Members share their accounts of magical moments in wild places. Why not contribute your own?
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 looking after Nevis is Pam Beattie who shares her memories of climbing her 94th Munro – Ben Nevis.
My Nevis: Alex Gillespie
Published: 22 Jan 2021
Helping us celebrate looking after Nevis is Alex Gillespie who shares his memories of the Ben from before 2000 when the Trust took it on.
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.
Wild Moment: Thomas Keating-Jones
Published: 19 Jan 2021
We are incredibly lucky to have some great hikes on our doorstep. This poem celebrates the ice covered pond at the top of the Downs!
Wild Moment: Lauren Smith
Published: 6 Jan 2021
"Around every bend a new and glorious surprise..." Impressions from a pre lockdown visit to the Highlands are captured in a poem
Wild Moment: Richard Castro
Published: 11 Dec 2020
"...pointed maple, blunted sycamore, rounded jagged elm..." Nature and people interact during lockdown - do you recognise the location?*
Wild Moment: Matt Barrett
Published: 25 Nov 2020
"Freewheel through rushes in the nearly-night..." Trust member Matt's poems are inspired by moments in nature found cycling "the usual loop"