TGO Blog
Out with the MAMILS
Cameron McNeish
November 12 2011
Cameron infiltrates the growing gang of mountaineers turned road bikies
You've Been Trumped
Cameron McNeish
July 16 2011
A review of the Anthony Baxter film, You've Been Trumped
Putting a price on the Natural World
Cameron McNeish
June 01 2011
How do you put a price on the values that the natural world offers?
A walk in another world
Carey Davies
April 14 2011
The sky is slate-grey, the air is tepid and the clouds are liable to open any minute.
To the Pacific
Chris Townsend
March 03 2011
Passing rainforest, snowfields and jagged mountains on the way to the coast, the final leg of Chris Townsend’s Pacific Northwest Trail journey could hardly have been more varied
Winter training in the Cairngorms
Carey Davies
February 02 2011
I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that a mountain’s most flattering colour is white.
Lots of snow, then rain and wind...
Cameron McNeish
February 01 2011
Overnight wind and rain had decimated the snow cover and in a few short hours the winter hills had been stripped, leaving only a few streaks of snow in the gullies.
In the Cascades
Chris Townsend
January 10 2011
A 26-hour storm, a perilous whitewater river crossing and a desperate bushwhack were just some of the challenges Chris Townsend faced on a particularly intense section of his Pacific Northwest Trail journey.
At home on the trail
Chris Townsend
January 05 2011
From bushwacking through the brush to some glorious high camps, Chris Townsend has had plenty of variety on his latest leg of the Pacific Northwest Trail
A great night for TGO
Cameron McNeish
December 02 2010
I’ve lost count of how many magazine award events I’ve attended over the years and when I stepped down as TGO editor I thought that was one duty that I would be spared in the future.
TGO TV: A film-making lesson with Triple Echo
Carey Davies
November 29 2010
Last week the TGO team took a trip to the Cairngorms; not to walk, but to learn more about the dark arts of video filming and editing.
Breathing easy with Gore-Tex: A trip to Germany
Carey Davies
October 07 2010
It’s been possible to detect a change in the status of Gore-Tex in recent years.
At Large in the Hebrides
Cameron McNeish
September 13 2010
Life has been pretty hectic since I was set loose from the TGO editor’s desk back in June.
Bushwacking and bears in the Selkirk Mountains
Chris Townsend
September 13 2010
High in the Selkirk Mountains I stare down a steep mountainside thick with tangled head-high bushes – known here as brush – in which are hidden boulders, logs, greasy stones, bits of bog and other obstacles.
Back in the hills!
Emily Rodway
September 03 2010
I wrote in my latest Editor’s Letter about how my hillgoing has been a bit depleted of late.
Planning a hike on the Pacific Northwest Trail
Chris Townsend
August 31 2010
Choosing the most appropriate gear for a 1,200-mile walk takes some thought, but Chris Townsend has had plenty of experience at preparing for a long distance backpack
First report - Pacific Northwest Trail
Chris Townsend
August 16 2010
On any long walk the themes and feel of the journey take time to develop.
Tackling the northwest wilderness
Chris Townsend
August 06 2010
Chris Townsend introduces his next long distance backpacking adventure – the fledgling 1,200-mile Pacific Northwest Trail…
A night in the forest
Chris Townsend
June 30 2010
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
A busy summer coming up...
Cameron McNeish
June 28 2010
The 2010 TGO Challenge has come and gone, the various blogs have all been enjoyed and the photographs circulated.
Cumbrian fellwalking ditty
Emily Rodway
June 06 2010
This appealed to my silly side... Check out the MySpace website of Wierdstring, a humorous Cumbria-based string trio, and listen to “Fellwalking Cum-Bri-Ay”.
Advantages of winter
Chris Townsend
June 02 2010
“It has been said that winter camping doesn’t build character, it reveals it. Sometimes, it may reveal that you’re out of your mind.” Laura and Guy Waterman, Backwoods Ethics
The Arizona Trail
Chris Townsend
June 02 2010
Ten years ago I was hiking through the deserts, forests and mountains of Arizona from Mexico to the Utah border, a distance of around 800 miles.
Anticipating spring
Chris Townsend
June 02 2010
“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day” Robert Frost, Two Tramps In Mud Time
The Continental Divide Trail
Chris Townsend
June 02 2010
For 3,000 miles the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) follows the watershed of the USA, down the Rocky Mountains from Canada to Mexico.
The Challenge looms large
Cameron McNeish
April 27 2010
It’s just over a couple of weeks before the TGO Challenge begins, two weeks for me to get my kit sorted out, deliver a couple of boxes of food to strategic points and get myself a bit fitter.
In time for a great weekend
Cameron McNeish
April 09 2010
The weekend’s approaching and joy of joys, it looks as though spring is here at long last.
Is it goodbye to the Outdoors Show?
Cameron McNeish
March 16 2010
News that the annual Outdoors Show, previously sponsored by the OS, is to be moved to London as part of the International Boat Show, surely sounds the death knell for the event.
An unsurprising lack of response?
Cameron McNeish
March 11 2010
I know from my own experience just how notoriously bad hillwalkers and climbers are at signing petitions, even when the subject of that petition directly affects them.
Loving Lakeland in snow
Emily Rodway
March 02 2010
Sometimes an inaccurate weather forecast can spoil your day; sometimes it can make it!
Getting wet in Windermere
Emily Rodway
February 26 2010
I’m off to the Lakes this weekend but the weather report’s looking horribly ominous.
Talks and cold weather
Cameron McNeish
February 23 2010
It would be great to meet up with some TGO readers in the next couple of weeks at a couple of talks I’m giving, one in Fort William and one in Stockport.
Wow - they did the walk too!
Cameron McNeish
February 19 2010
My apologies to Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner...
Great climbs, but they missed the walk...
Cameron McNeish
February 16 2010
Congratulations to climbers Dave MacLeod and Andy Turner on their epic series of climbs on Ben Nevis last week.
Filling in the form
Cameron McNeish
February 04 2010
I’m working through an interesting process at the moment, one that I’m partly enjoying and partly resisting.
A busy week calls for a day in the mountains
Emily Rodway
January 22 2010
It’s been another busy week in the TGO office.
Cold and white for the high tops
Cameron McNeish
January 22 2010
Looks like being a decent weekend on the high tops of the UK.
A black day for Scotland
Cameron McNeish
January 07 2010
There are so many issues connected to yesterday’s Scottish government announcement about the Beauly-Denny powerline that I’m not sure where to begin.
A decade of backpacking gear
Chris Townsend
January 06 2010
As a gear tester for TGO magazine I try a wide range of outdoor gear every year. Over a decade this adds up to a vast amount of stuff.
A cold start to the year
Cameron McNeish
January 05 2010
First day back in the TGO office and a mountain of emails to work through.
Experiencing the wild
Cameron McNeish
December 21 2009
Looks like my earlier blog about a snowy winter might have been prophetic.
Don’t forget the crampons practice
Cameron McNeish
December 17 2009
Don’t forget the crampons practice
Where’s the path?
Emily Rodway
December 17 2009
One of my TGO Challenger mates recently put a post up on the TGO Challenge forum, directing people to a the clever ‘Where’s the path?’ website at: wtp2.appspot.com
A wish fulfilled
Emily Rodway
December 14 2009
Last week, Chris Townsend sent an email in to the TGO office including an image of a Brocken Spectre that he’d seen from Schiehallion.
A great weekend for walking
Emily Rodway
December 11 2009
Just checked the Mountain Weather forecast – and it’s looking fantabulous for tomorrow: no rain; 90% chance of cloud-free Munros; superb visibility.
The ultimate trail
Chris Townsend
December 10 2009
Some trails linger in the mind. For years afterwards memories of them surface, bringing delight and sometimes intense reflection. The lessons and rewards of those trails can still be coming through years after the journey along them is over. Indeed, such trails can become benchmarks against which other journeys are measured. One such route is the Pacific Crest Trail.
The pleasures of camp cooking
Chris Townsend
December 10 2009
“Walking off into the blue struck me as being a poor reason to forgo the pleasures of eating” Hamish Brown, Hamish’s Mountain Walk The cold rain lashes down.
The journey
Chris Townsend
December 10 2009
Completing the TGO Challenge in May set me thinking about the satisfaction gained from a long backpacking journey.
On and off the trail
Chris Townsend
December 10 2009
Go beyond the trails and become an explorer. “When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you’ll see something, maybe.”
Summit camps
Chris Townsend
December 10 2009
“There is a pleasure in camping on mountains inexplicable to the unbeliever” W.H.Murray, Mountaineering in Scotland
Looks like a grim future for Scottish wild land
Cameron McNeish
December 10 2009
My air of depression over the future of Scotland’s wild land has been exacerbated by the news that Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister, has strung together a committee to ensure Scotland meets its pledge to reduce carbon gas emissions by 42% by 2020.
Check out my forthcoming Skye Trail television show
Cameron McNeish
December 08 2009
Triple Echo Productions, who have put together my forthcoming programme for BBC2 Scotland and Sky Channel 990 called The Skye Trail, have put up a short clip of the show on their website.
Merry Christmas from the Backpackers Club
Cameron McNeish
December 08 2009
After the week from hell – much of it trying to meet deadlines associated with the Beta version of this website, I eventually escaped from the office last weekend and made my way south for the Backpackers Club Christmas Party.
Thank you for your patience
Emily Rodway
December 07 2009
We're aware that there are currently rather a lot of errors on this website.
The TGO Community
Emily Rodway
December 05 2009
I'm afraid that the TGO Community and chat forum is offline for a few days.
Websites and walking
Emily Rodway
December 04 2009
Getting the new TGO website live has been a bit of a steep learning curve, to say the least.
Welcome to our new website
Cameron McNeish
December 04 2009
It doesn’t feel as though much time has passed since I announced the birth of our last TGO website but such is the continual development of the internet and the growing expectancy of users that we’ve had to re-design more or less from scratch.
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