‘It’s hard to imagine the fires of July’: a bike ride through the Cairngorms in Scotland

By Ailsa Sheldon

Wildfires raged through the national park this summer, but much of the landscape remains untouched – and autumn is the perfect time to go I n the Cairngorms national park, the bracken is changing from dark green to russet and umber. “We see the forest as an extension of our home,” Graham says. “We want people to know we’re still here, we’re still awesome,” says Graham.