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.

Off to Neverland

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

The Great Outdoors

ALMANAC • in the mountains

Mangersta, Isle of Lewis

HEDGEROWS • Right to Roam organiser and naturalist Nadia Shaikh meets the animal engineers of our land at the humble hedgerow

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Wander Wild • Ireland’s Great Outdoors Festival

EBEN MUSE writer and campaigner • A place for bold views or interviews, outdoor arts and culture or the latest in access or environmental stories, this column is a newsroom, forum and soapbox (though perhaps not all at the same time!) for the outdoor community. Whatever our differing points of view, we’re all united by our love for the great outdoors. This time, it’s over to…

BEN MORE • Jim Perrin remembers the giant of Mull, an elegant outlier leaning seaward

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ISLANDS IN THE STREAM • From gnarly ridge traverses to relaxing strolls along silvery beaches, these island hikes lend themselves to the long days of Summer

BACK TO THE ISLAND • Photographer Helen Iles revisits Ynys Enlli for a few days of seal watching and star shooting. She finds much had been left unchanged on this ‘Island in the Currents’ as she volunteers to protect its ways from the wild elements that encircle it

SEAS BETWEEN US • Alastair MacDonald Jackson spent two years visiting as many of Scotland’s west coast islands as possible. Here he showcases some of the greatest wonders of the west – and offers practical advice on how to see them

6 ISLAND HIGHLIGHTS • Alastair picks his top experiences from two years of island hopping…

COAST TO COAST IN CORSICA • One of TGO’s favourite maverick adventurers, John Fleetwood, is back, this time with a fulsome coast-to-coast extension of the renowned GR20 that embraces the best of Mediterranean village life, swimming, scrambling and the odd scrape away from the hot spots

SKILLS: OVERCOMING A FEAR OF HEIGHTS • A fear of heights can be debilitating for hillwalkers – but there are ways to ease the anxiety. On a Peak District-based course organised by the UK section of the Austrian Alpine Club, Alex and Hannah Roddie learned how to tackle this common phobia

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

BACKPACKING RUCKSACKS • Lucy Wallace and Alex Roddie head to the hills with a range of the latest rucksacks designed for multi-day backpacking, with both lightweight and more traditional loads

BUDGET 1-PERSON TENTS • Getting away from it all isn’t just for experts with expendable income. Lara Dunn tried out a few more modestly priced options to help you achieve wanderlust lift-off

BUDGET SLEEPING BAGS • Mountain Leader Lucy Wallace and pro wildlife photographer James Roddie spend dozens of nights out each season, but comfy camping needn’t cost the Earth. Here’s their pick of the budget crop this year…

WILD WALKS

1 An Groban North-West Highlands SCOTLAND

2 Aonach Eagach...