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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · 4d

Explore Scotland’s most unruly park with our 'High Culture' special 🌄
⛰ Much like art, the mountains are at their most thrilling when they don’t play by the rules. We hope this issue inspires a creative impulse in you.
📸 Paul Skea
🔗 Get your copy now:
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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · 4d

Give the gift of adventure with a subscription to The Great Outdoors this holiday season 🎒

🦅#TheGreatOutdoors has been helping people to explore for more than 40 years. We exist to help you make the most of your time outside.

Subscribe today and save 64% at the link below:
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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · 19d

🍂The leaves on the trees are beginning to crimson, and this can only mean one thing... The Great Outdoors Reader Awards are officially open!

🏆 These awards are the UK’s biggest democratic celebration of the best of our outdoor culture.

Have your say now:
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/the-gre...

The Great Outdoors Reader Awards 2026: nominate your heroes!

Recognise the best of British outdoor culture. Nominate your outdoor heroes for The Great Outdoors Reader Awards 2026 now!

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · 21d

⛺ We partnered with Trek Scotland & Minreet Kaur for a first-time Munro wild camp in the Cairngorms.
🌄 Minreet's mum Pal is in remission. She's 75 in November - and is nails enough to attempt Bynack More in the dark!
Watch this space for her full story. An inspiration! 👏
📸 @davidlintern.bsky.social

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Steve Smith @steve72outdoors.bsky.social · Aug 28

Motivational magazine just been delivered 🏕🥾🏔👍
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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · 26d

⛺Britain's most experienced gear team reveals TGO's Gear of the Year.
🥾With 200+ years of experience & countless hours working outdoors, we can distinguish between hype & innovation. Wary of the latest freebie praised online? You’re in the right place!
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/gear-guides/...

The Great Outdoors Gear of the Year Awards 2025

Britain's most experienced gear team share top picks of outdoor kit and innovations. See the winners of TGO's Gear of the Year Awards 2025.

www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com

The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Uncover Britain’s mountain myths & legends in our new bumper issue 🧙‍♀️

🏆 PLUS: we reveal the world-class bits of kit and the brands announced victorious in our annual Gear of the Year Awards!

Get your copy of this special issue of #TheGreatOutdoors now:
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue...

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Andrew J Galloway @andrewjgalloway.bsky.social · Jun 21

Second attempt to recci a route for @tgomagazine.bsky.social ended in failure. ROW shown on OS 1:25,000 map around Castell Caerau not visible on the ground. Shoulder deep in bracken, gorse and heather most of the morning. 🙄

#solstice #eryri #gwynedd #parccenedlaetholeryri #cymru #snowdonia #castell

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David J Lintern @davidlintern.bsky.social · Aug 23

Spreads from the bumper edition of @tgomagazine.bsky.social loaded with poetry, boating, walking and scrambling… and our annual roundup of the best outdoor kit for 2025

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · May 8

I wrote this article for @tgomagazine.bsky.social based on my experiences at the Kinder rising mass swim last week.

Draconian rules and a hostile management policy towards the public is bad for public safety and health.

See my full thoughts:

www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/opinion/kind...

Kinder Mass Trespass: Paternalistic blanket bans on public access to water aren’t there to look after us

On the 93rd of the Kinder Mass Trespass, hundreds of protestors dipped in Kinder Reservoir in defiance of access law and landowner policy.

www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com

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Steve Smith @steve72outdoors.bsky.social · May 22

Tonights reading material sorted 👌 @tgomagazine.bsky.social

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Jun 9

📚 Our nine-year old reviewer and avid reader - who definitely does do mountains - shares their take on this Cairngorms adventure tale by @scattyscribbler.bsky.social.

Review: I Don't Do Mountains by Barbara Henderson

Our nine-year old reviewer shares their take on this Cairngorms adventure tale, I Don't Do Mountains by Barbara Henderson.

www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · May 21

⛺Backpackers & walkers who value the freedom of sleeping under the stars celebrate today's Supreme Court ruling after years of tireless campaigning to defend a right under threat on #Dartmoor.
✨@dpadartmoor.bsky.social @righttoroam.bsky.social #wildcamping
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/dartmoo...

Dartmoor Supreme Court ruling: wild camping rights upheld

On the day of the Dartmoor Supreme Court ruling, backpackers and nature lovers celebrate the upholding of the right to wild camp.

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · May 7

"The Water Company Who Cried Wolf"

On the 93rd anniversary of the Kinder Mass Trespass, hundreds of protestors dipped in defiance of access law and landowner policy which decrees that the public do not have the right to swim in our reservoirs.

@ebenmyrddin.bsky.social reports.

Kinder Mass Trespass: Paternalistic blanket bans on public access to water aren’t there to look after us

On the 93rd of the Kinder Mass Trespass, hundreds of protestors dipped in Kinder Reservoir in defiance of access law and landowner policy.

www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · May 1

🧗 As it turns 100 this May, Katy Dartford celebrates Britain’s oldest purpose-acquired climbing hut; launchpad for countless adventures, shelter from Eryri/#Snowdonia’s storms and a gathering place for generations of climbers.

📸: The Climbers' Club
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/helyg-1...

A century at Helyg: the hut that helped build British climbing

Katy Dartford celebrates Eryri/Snowdonia's Helyg, Britain’s oldest purpose-acquired climbing hut as it turns 100 this May.

www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Apr 25

🕰 @kathillauthor.bsky.social time travels to Maol-bhuidhe, one of Britain’s most remote bothies. With photographer @nicholasjrwhite.bsky.social, she retraces the steps of teachers who travelled between Highland communities.
Read on in #TheGreatOutdoors:
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue...

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Apr 25

In the shadow of giants 🏔️

⛺ Peter Elia joins a once-in-a-lifetime trek to K2 Base Camp and finds splendour, strength and comradeship in the heart of Pakistan’s Karakoram range.

📸: Alun Richardson

Read on in #TheGreatOutdoors:
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue...

The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Apr 25

📸 Will Lake enjoys nothing more than escaping his desk with camera in hand, often to the #LakeDistrict. It is an antidote to "endless metrics, goals and rankings". His images are refreshingly unprocessed and joyful.

See more in new #TheGreatOutdoors:
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue...

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Apr 25

Go beyond wild camping in #TheGreatOutdoors ⛺
5⃣ adventurers share their strange sleeps outside
🕰 Kat Hill travels back in time to a remote bothy
🖼 Will Lake does landscape photography without fuss
🏔 Peter Elia camps in the shadow of K2
and more!
Read now:
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue...

The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Apr 23

🎁 First published in the April issue of #TheGreatOutdoors, this feature-length story is now free to read as a thank you to our online community.

🔗 Use the password Pennine to unlock your free story.

A line down the spine of England: the Pennine Way at 60

Celebrating the Pennine Way at 60, completers of England’s first National Trail share memories of walking, running, and singing its 268 miles.

www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Apr 23

FREE STORY: A line down the spine of England 🥾

🥳To celebrate the #PennineWay's 60th, we asked those who have walked, run, danced and sung their way along the 268 miles of England’s first National Trail to share their stories. You'll be surprised by what's changed... And what hasn't.

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David J Lintern @davidlintern.bsky.social · Mar 30

Food… Politics… Environment… Marmot ontology! New May issue of @tgomagazine.bsky.social focuses on National Parks, including an alt take on the GR54 in the French Haute Alps.

We are what we eat, make sure it’s wholesome: www.google.com/search?q=tgo...

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Apr 15

The Last Wainwrights.
More than 40 years after ticking off the Wainwrights himself, @aleator.bsky.social set out to complete his father’s unfinished round. While bagging those final 24 summits, he discovered new layers of meaning in the landscape.
Read on:
www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/latest-issue...

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Mar 27

RAF and mountain rescue veteran David “Heavy” Whalley, who helped save hundreds of lives during his career, has died at the age of 72.

A previous editor of The Great Outdoors magazine, Cameron McNeish, remembers a friend, colleague and a gentleman of the hills.

Remembering David 'Heavy' Whalley, a Mountain Rescue Legend

RAF and mountain rescue veteran David “Heavy” Whalley - a gentleman of the hills - is remembered by Cameron McNeish.

www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com

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The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social · Mar 25

🌄#TheGreatOutdoors invites young photographers aged 15-25 to submit your favourite landscape photograph to be published in our magazine and win £75!
🥾Pick your best shot of mountains that move you & send it with 100 words describing the moment to [email protected].
📸@veritymilligan.bsky.social

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