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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Contributors & contacts • Meet some of the folk that made this magazine…

The Great Outdoors

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THE MEADOW PIPIT • Right to Roam organiser and naturalist Nadia Shaikh reminds us to notice this resilient small brown bird amid our upland monocultures

Readers’ page • Postal address The Editor, The Great Outdoors, Kelsey Publishing Ltd, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL. Please include a phone number and postal address..

The Search – the life of a mountain rescue search dog team

THE VIEW FROM HERE • Who belongs in the mountains and how should they enjoy them? For Alec Finlay, these questions are at the root of how we perceive wild nature and how we care for it

SHORT CIRCUIT ON YR WYDDFA • Jim Perrin conjures more Eryri magic, folding time on a lesser-known scramble to Wales’ highest peak

TAKE THE GREAT OUTDOORS EVERYWHERE!

SAVING OUR SUMMITS • Mountain ecosystems across the world are under threat – but the people who love them are fighting back. Hanna Lindon meets the hillwalking heroes using their outdoor skills for positive change

Find a cause

What lies beneath • Documentary photographer Richard Cross rises above the shortbread tin romanticism that colours so much of our outdoor heritage, with the perspective provided by drone photography applied to land use issues of our day

CALIFORNIA DREAMING • You don’t have to thru-hike a whole Triple Crown Trail to get a taste of wild America. James Roddie experiences summits, camps and canyons on a two-week tour of the Golden State

EXPLORE CALIFORNIA

SKILLS: HELP FIGHT WILDLIFE CRIME • Most wildlife crime happens in remote places, making walkers the most likely witnesses. Here’s how to recognise the signs – and help bring the perpetrators to justice

WILDLIFE CRIME IN NUMBERS

DO NOT DISTURB

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

NEW REVIEWS • Steph Wetherell and Fiona Russell focus on two new products

ONE-PERSON TENTS • Mountain Leader Lucy Wallace takes the latest in single-serving shelters for a spin

BACKPACKING MEALS • From sceptic to satisfied and satiated walker, Gemma Palmer puts a selection of dehydrated camp meals to the taste test

3-SEASON SLEEPING BAGS • Mountaineering Instructor Kirsty Pallas and pro wildlife photographer James Roddie tuck in for the night in the great outdoors, with their pick of 0-degree sleeping bags

WILDWALKS

1 Five Sisters of Kintail North-West Highlands SCOTLAND

2 Geal-Chàrn, Aonach Beag & Beinn Eibhinn Central Highlands SCOTLAND

3 The Glen Sax Round Southern Uplands SCOTLAND

4 St Sunday Crag via Lord’s Seat Lake District ENGLAND

5 Wansfell Lake District ENGLAND

6 Wernygeufron Hill & Beacon Hill Mid Wales WALES

7 Limerstone Down & Hanover Point Isle of Wight ENGLAND

UPHILL STRUGGLES • When one reader – and her new four-legged friend – felt as though they were barking up the wrong tree with training, Juls Stodel shared advice to help you have no ruff adventures