The Great Outdoors

TGO Magazine is your essential guide to hillwalking and backpacking in the UK and overseas. Get out more! We provide all the inspiration you need to plan your next trip, plus expert reviews and tips. The Great Outdoors is for anyone who loves walking in the hills, mountains and wild places. With information on the latest gear, in-depth features and stunning photography, The Great Outdoors will help you access the high peaks and long trails of Britain and beyond. Our enhanced digital addition includes even more great photos and interactive content.

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MAKE STRIDES • No matter where the path takes you, The Great Outdoors is your ideal companion in high places

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Creator OF THE MONTH • Explore the ‘uncanny’ of our nature crisis through Bryony Ella’s art practice and wild drawing workshops

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ON THE LOOKOUT • Natural highlights in the hills this month

Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You

Improving accessibility does not mean ‘sterilising’ the landscape with tarmac • We don’t need to compromise the rugged beauty of our high places to allow the11 million people in England who face mobility challenges to enjoy the outdoors, argues Debbie North

HELSBY HILL • Jim Perrin recalls climbing basics learned on a bold headland within a ‘far from pretty’ industrialised landscape

INVERNESS • James Roddie hails a Scottish city that’s perfectly placed amidst some of the Highlands’ finest landscapes

Adrenaline ACCEPTED • Big mountain challenges offer entertaining routes in some of our most spectacular landscapes. Vivienne Crow is your guide to these epics, from classic Munro rounds to lesser-trodden undertakings

Five gruelling long-distance trails

AGAINST THE GRAIN • Alex Roddie tackles Glen Coe’s infamous Aonach Eagach scrambling route west to east: the ‘wrong’ way for some, but a new way for him

Secrets of the Stiperstones of the • Roger Butler explores a beautiful and fascinating corner of the England/Wales border, where mining history and Saxon legends mingle with new stories of landscape restoration in aid of the emperor moth

A path less travelled • Richard Hartfield joins the newly established Via Glaralpina trail around Switzerland’s Glarus Alps, and meets the volunteers who built it

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SKILLS: Move faster in the mountains • Keri Wallace – Mountain Leader, founder of Girls on Hills and mountain runner – shares her hill fitness hacks, tips on avoiding ‘weekend warrior’ traps, and the secrets of how to do more in the mountains with less

Gear News • News from the world of outdoor kit, and product reviews from the UK’s most experienced gear-testing team

NEW REVIEWS • Lucy Wallace and Mary-Ann Ochota check out exciting new kit

TWO-PERSON TENTS • Alex Roddie ventures into the mountains with six of the best shelters for duos

SLEEPING BAGS • Our reviewers Fiona Russell and John Manning find some surprisingly good bargains at the budget end of the spectrum for a night out under the stars

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OUTDOOR STOVES • Equipment editor Chris Townsend reviews a wide range of stoves for camping and backpacking

WILDWALKS • 10 varied routes in Scotland, England and Wales

1 Stac Pollaidh North-West Highlands SCOTLAND • Ian Battersby uncovers the plus side to being petite

2 Windy Gyle Northumberland ENGLAND • Ian Battersby finds a tranquil saunter where battles once raged in the Borders

Rannerdale Knotts Lake District ENGLAND • Vivienne Crow explores a teeny fell that punches above its weight

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