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.

WELCOME • Keeping the flame alive

IN THIS ISSUE • Meet some of the folk who made this mag…

The Great Outdoors

Capel Curig, Snowdonia

THE KNOYDART BREWERS • Beer from the back of beyond

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The inaugural MARTIN MORAN ROUND

November 2022

Renewables – are we caught between a rock and a hard place? • In the first of a regular series, Mary-Ann Ochota ponders the dilemma of where to build renewable energy infrastructure: on the hills, or in the sea?

“It all started with my wife having Alzheimer’s… it knocked me for six” • Nick Gardner has spent the past two years completing the Munros. Here the 82-year-old talks about traversing the Cuillin Ridge, the therapeutic effects of hillwalking, and his adventure plans…

THE MERRICK • Jim Perrin pays homage to an understated Borders hill with grand views, and to a naturalist with great foresight

ONE FOR THE ROAD • Hillwalks and pubs have long gone together well. But what are the best hike and hostelry pairings in Britain? In one of their toughest assignments yet, five brave contributors gave us their verdicts…

JAGGERS’ REVENGE • Francesca Donovan visits three drinking dens for breakfast, lunch and dinner on a Peak District packhorse pub marathon

GO YOUR OWN WAY • Jon Sparks ambles from Grasmere to Ambleside on a pilgrimage to a TGO Readers’ Award favourite: the Golden Rule

CIDER WITH LOKI • Andrew Wasdale walks his dog to Laurie Lee’s local watering hole in the Cotswolds

TAKING IT UP A NOTCH • Andrew Galloway describes a truly edgy walk to the boozer: the Aonach Eagach to the Clachaig Inn, winner of the best walkers’ pub in the TGO Readers’ Awards, 2021

ROCKSTEADY RITSON • Taking in the highest peak in England and the birthplace of British rock-climbing, Hanna Lindon’s alternate route from the Wasdale Head Inn has plenty of rockstar appeal

A PLACE APART • The Scottish peninsula of Knoydart is famous for its remoteness; but, as James Roddie discovers with his partner, it’s the spirit of community you find there that truly sets it apart…

A LAND RECLAIMED: THE HISTORY OF KNOYDART

ABOUT THE OLD FORGE

MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK • Why stop at one exhilarating ridge when you could have three? In what might be the best-value walk in the Lake District, James Forrest heads to Blencathra to tackle a trio of airy scrambles

ROAD TO THE ALES • Around 800 years ago a local earl built a road across the high moors between Atholl and Strathspey to transport his favourite tipples to his castle. As autumn closes in, Stefan Durkacz sets out in search of the legendary Comyn’s Road

A PLACE IN THE SUN • Looking for somewhere to walk the winter blues away? There’s more to the Costa Blanca than high-rises and sunburned holidaymakers: Vivienne Crow escapes the bustling beaches to explore a hidden hinterland of limestone mountains and dramatic gorges, with a fascinating Moorish legacy

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION • Hiking on the Costa Blanca

LAND OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE • Drawn to Guatemala by the chance...