5 Minutes With Crag Mills: Inverness Store Manager

I’ve worked for Cotswold Outdoor for 10 years now. I’ve worked in all of our Scottish stores, and helped open most of them in some way.

The location is great if you want to head East or West for your adventures. The city ranks very highly for quality of life which is important to me and my young family. Also, the people I have met from Inverness have always come across really nice and friendly.

It’s an old one, but it’s a great escape. When things get too much I love the feeling of being free. It doesn’t matter to me what the weather’s like, I just love that sense of being free and being able to clear my head.

Slovenia ranks very highly for me in Europe. It’s like Scotland but with bigger hills. Chamonix has to be up there too.

There’s too many to choose! I love mountaineering, hill walking, long distance triathlons, trail running, road cycling, mountain biking and anything else that gets me out of the house. Recently my time’s been taken up by my young daughter, so I’ve learnt to love nice forest walks with her, going at a much more relaxed pace.

I took part in the Mont Blanc marathon which was huge for me. There are obviously longer and harder races, but for me that really pushed my abilities and opened up a new world of longer runs and endurance events.