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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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Sound artist, aka Seapink Sounds • Simon’s improvisational approach to music recording has evolved into an immersion in outdoors soundscapes

Readers’ page • Share your views, your experiences and your favourite photos

Mam Tor & The Great Ridge, Peak District • Few walks anywhere in Britain offer a greater reward-to-effort ratio than this airy, undulating Peak District ridgeline. It can get busy, but it’s a joy to walk

HYPER HIKING: Climbing Snowdon as you’ve never seen it before • Filmed by outdoor photographer and videographer Alex Nail, the first in our new video series takes you on a spectacular fast-motion ascent of Wales’ highest mountain

Damn straight: the walkers who took on Britain’s ‘longest line’ • What’s it like to walk 80km in a straight line – across some very big mountains? Not straightforward, as Calum Maclean found out

FORGING AHEAD: A new dawn for Britain’s most remote pub • The remotest pub on the British mainland reopens this month under community ownership. We spoke to one of the locals to find out more about their plans…

How expanding access could be the best way to save our landscapes • The growing clamour for better access could be seen as a threat to nature – but, with the right thinking, it could actually be a great benefit, says guidebook writer Paul Besley

Love Trails Festival returns to Gower Peninsula for 2022

TRAIL RUNNER • BAGS THE WAINWRIGHTS IN 2ND FASTEST TIME EVER

The Black Ridge: Amongst the Cuillin of Skye

CROSS FELL • The highest summit in the Pennines, this isolated monster of a hill is well worth the effort, says Jim Perrin

BIG HITS AND B-SIDES • Mountain walks are like music: there are the stone-cold hits, and the more obscure but just as worthy ‘B-sides’. We asked a crack team of writers and photographers to pick out their favourite classic British hill-walks – and the lesser-trodden alternatives to each

THE THIN BLUE LINE • The England Coast Path will soon become the longest continuous coastal walk in the world. James Forrest fastpacks a 107km section of this trail-to-be on the coast of Yorkshire – and discovers a wild margin brimming with life

KILLILAN TIME • As winter meets spring in the north-west Highlands, Stefan Durkacz backpacks over a lesser known group of mountains and experiences both the sublime and the ridiculous

NO BORDERS IN THE MOUNTAINS • In 2018, lured by the prospect of a ‘secret’ mountain range almost the size of the Alps, Richard Hartfield attempted a 1200-kilometre hike across the mountains of the Greater Caucasus. In this contested region on the Russian border, beset by conflict, he found no small measure of paranoia and hostility – but also kindness, kinship, and spectacular beauty

How to go hillwalking with dogs • Devoted Collie owner and Munro Society President Anne Butler shares her expert advice on how to look after your best friend on the hill

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