Trekking poles are mainly used for support, balance and to take some weight off your legs. The last is important. I find that my legs fee...

The cover shows Scott Steiner in Halfmoon Park in the Scapegoat Wilderness on the Continental Divide Trail Back in the distant pre-Inte...

Findhorn Bay Sometimes the sea attracts. With a promise of sunshine and thoughts of the freshness of sea air and the spaciousness of a ...

In the latest issue of The Great Outdoors I review 11 60+ litre packs and 5 stoves, plus the PHD Waferlite down jacket. Also in the...

The Feith Buidhe and Lochan Buidhe on the Cairngorm Plateau The last two days have been hot and sunny in the Cairngorms, a wonderful ch...

Tilley Hat, Paramo Katmai shirt & Pacerpoles on my Yosemite Valley to Death Valley walk last autumn Looking through old files rec...

Twenty-five years ago I was camped high on the side of Utladalen in the south-west corner of the Jotunheimen National Park looking acro...