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.

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SEPTEMBER in the mountains

Finding magic

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ROBIN’S PINCUSHION • Nadia Shaikh opens the pages to wonder and tells the story of the robin’s pincushion, a plant gall with an otherworldly narrative arc

The Art of Julian Cooper • (hardback, £40, Unicorn)

The new green goldrush

BEINN TARSUINN • Jim Perrin recalls jaunts up a glorious cirque of granite ridges from an Arran glen that harboured unexpected dangers

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Natural INSTINCTS • Almost without us noticing, fast-evolving technology has gradually transformed our ability to interpret and attune to nature. Can rediscovering lost arts like animal tracking, natural navigation and foraging help us recapture that connection?

Twitching and BEWITCHING • Steph Wetherell heads north over the sea for her fill of winged wildlife, Neolithic history and the ‘last enchantment’ of Orkney in the midsummer twilight

Small wonders • Lizzie Shepherd has travelled the world photographing nature in its many guises. In this remarkable photo essay, she demonstrates that it’s possible to find as much beauty and meaning in the mundane as it is in the extraordinary

GHOST OF THE MOUNTAINS • The Ghost of the Mountains: Unravelling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard follows Dr Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi’s 20-year journey to study and protect one of the world’s most mysterious big cats. In this edited extract Kullu, as he is known, describes an epic journey to establish a study site in the Lingti Valley, deep in the Indian Himalayas

HeartHero Elliot AED

La Sportiva Ultra Raptor 3

WATERPROOF JACKETS • Lara Dunn and James Roddie embrace the (sometimes not-so-Great) British weather in all its changeable glory with this year’s pick of the waterproof crop

MIDLAYERS • Gemma Palmer and Peter Macfarlane throw on the best of this year’s fleecy layers to ward off autumn chills

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WILD WALKS

1 Sgùrr na Stri from Elgol Isle of Skye SCOTLAND

2 Askival & Hallival Isle of Rùm SCOTLAND

3 An Sgùrr Isle of Eigg SCOTLAND

4 Criffel Dumfries & Galloway SCOTLAND

5 Wast Water Screes from Ravenglass Lake District ENGLAND

6 Mynydd y Dref & Meini Hirion Eryri / Snowdonia WALES

7 Moel Ysgyfarnogod from Talsarnau Eryri / Snowdonia WALES

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UPHILL STRUGGLES • Peak problem? Trail trouble? Ask Juls…