Author Archives: Gary

Brave adventurers might cross entire continents to discover the source of a river such as the Nile or Amazon, usually funded by some really posh knob, geographical society or the like, hire hundreds of native porters to carry their Earl … Continue reading →

The past few days have been spent mostly hunting down turfer unique zones and picking off a few unique zones locally that have been created since I first turfed those areas. Holyrood Park in Edinburgh was one such area with … Continue reading →

Some turfers might think it’s totally crazy to drive for an hour, then slither 580m down a muddy precipitous path with a sheer drop on one side, in winds gusting to 40 mph and with horizontal rain and sea spray … Continue reading →

With the Turf Ultimate Region Fight 2024 finished for another year – Team Scotland came in a respectable 4th place out of 12 competing teams – the pressure is now off. Now we can all get back to normal turfing. … Continue reading →

Another busy turf day, this time into the big city, the west side of Edinburgh to be exact. It was the final area of the city where I still had a bunch of uniques to claim, around 90 of them … Continue reading →

Well, that was a tough session. Only 29 zones taken in just over 3-hours but that’s what you get when you visit the Scottish Borders. They make you work for your zones in part of the Scottish Borders and I … Continue reading →

Another reason for my turfing session around Currie and Balerno the other day, one I forgot to mention in the turf blog of that trip, was to tick off another Monument zone towards the new Monument medal. This medal requires … Continue reading →

Writing a blog page about turfing can be quite challenging. You take a zone. Then you take another zone, and another, all the way to infinity and beyond. Which, of course, is impossible, as infinity goes on forever and you … Continue reading →