Chris Townsend Outdoors
5 天之前 · At 680g I wouldn’t carry this on a long walk. My original booklets weigh 100g each. The new edition is far more comprehensive of course. Congratulations to all involved in its production. The book costs £25 and is available from the Scottish Mountaineering Press. Highly recommended. Posted by Chris Townsend.
Chris Townsend Outdoors: October 2024
2024年10月12日 · It’s not long, around 8 miles/12km, but the going is tough in places and anyway this is not a place to rush through but to savour. This landscape is rugged, rocky, rough and complex, mixing sea and mountain in a wonderful array of forms and patterns. The Stack of Glencoul, Eas a'Chual Aluinn, & Loch Beag.
Chris Townsend Outdoors: 2021
Thursday 30 December 2021. Favourite New Outdoor Gear of 2021. Sea to Summit Ultralight mat, Sea to Summit Alto TR2 Plus inner tent, & Jetboil Stash stove, plus some old favourites - Alpkit Woodsmoke shirt & Tilley Hiker Hat. Here are my favourite new items of gear for 2021 after another year testing gear for The Great Outdoors.
Chris Townsend Outdoors: 2023
2023年12月29日 · Favourite New Gear of 2023. Mountain Laurel Designs SoloMid XL, Atom Packs The Mo 60. Here's my annual favourite gear of the year roundup following another twelve months testing gear for The Great Outdoors. Not all the items were new for this year, just tested by me for the first time. As in previous years they don't necessarily replace ones ...
A Look At The November Issue Of The Great Outdoors
4 天之前 · In the November issue of The Great Outdoors I review eight head torches and the Paramo Alta Trek trousers. Also in the gear pages Kirsty Pallas and James Roddie review four pairs of warm gloves each. There's a Scottish theme to this issue as it's the annual TGO Challenge one with stories and pictures from this year's event. Alex Nail describes ...
Chris Townsend Outdoors: October 2021
2021年10月31日 · This big book arrived a couple of weeks ago and I've been browsing through it on and off ever since. It's a companion volume to Wanderlust Europe, which I reviewed last year, and has the same format.That book covers the whole of Europe, this one just the Alps, if you could use the word 'just' about Europe's main mountain range.
High Summer new edition - available November 1st!
1 天前 · High Summer was first published in 1989, in an edition long out of print.Back then all photography was on film and I took over 3000 colour slides during the walk. Just 21 appeared in that first edition. For the new edition there are 98 black and white photos in the paperback and 105 colour photos in the ebook, most of them never published before.
A Look At The November Issue Of The Great Outdoors
2021年10月11日 · The latest issue of The Great Outdoors is out now. I have a feature describing the gear I used on my trip to An Teallach that I wrote about on this blog here (with more photos). I also review the Motorola Defy smartphone, the Columbia OutDry Extreme Nanolite waterproof jacket, and the Fjallraven Greenland Jacket.
A Look At The July Issue Of The Great Outdoors - Chris Townsend …
2021年6月23日 · Hi Chris, re: the ViewRanger article you mention. Recently I wrote to the company asking: Some years ago I started using ViewRanger and purchased the entire OS map collection for the UK, and this remains the most useful …
Outdoor & Nature Books 2021 - Chris Townsend Outdoors
2022年1月8日 · The Vanishing Ice: Diaries of a Scottish snow hunter by Iain Cameron (Vertebrate, 2021) A fascinating and intriguing book about the author's passion for the remnants of snow that last through the Scottish summer. Adventure stories, scientific research, history. There's a lot to snow patches!