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Reeks District: Ireland’s Adventure Playground with Jessie Leong

‘How do you pronounce Carrauntoohil?’ ‘Karen-toole’ replied Piaras, mountain guide from Kerry Climbing. ‘It means inverted sickle, a serrated knife-edge. Just look at the ridge behind you.’
December 03, 2018

Reeks District: Ireland’s Adventure Playground with Jessie Leong

‘How do you pronounce Carrauntoohil?’ ‘Karen-toole’ replied Piaras, mountain guide from Kerry Climbing. ‘It means…

Outdoor Guides

Ease your way into wild camping

Ask an American about wild camping and the chances are they'll tell you all about pulling up next to a lake in their 40ft RV and surviving with just a…
May 21, 2014

Ease your way into wild camping

Ask an American about wild camping and the chances are they'll tell you all about…
May 12, 2026

A Beginner’s Guide to Wild Camping

Wild camping has a particular appeal because it strips things back to literal basics. There’s no reception block, no neat row of pitches and no hum of other people’s evenings just beyond the hedge.
August 08, 2022

A journey of meaning

In a little over three weeks, I’ll be stood on a railway platform in Cheshire waiting for a train and the start of an 8000km adventure. Over the following 18…
April 28, 2022

Coire goes Woofhostelling and takes the Family

I’m still not sure how we ended up with a working collie puppy. One minute I was visiting friends on the small island of Kerrerra where the farm dogs had…
July 20, 2020

Wild camping - a fight or flight dilemma

Over the last couple of months there's been countless column inches in the mainstream media devoted to "wild camping", and none of it has been good.
December 22, 2019

Skin Up to and Ski Off the Cairngorm

For a while now I have wanted to ski tour, finally I managed to get the gear together to be able to! So I headed for the Cairngorm, I had…
August 15, 2019

Albert and being Sustainable.

What connects a tiny patch of snow in Scotland to a Blackpool pub and landslides in the Alps? Henry Iddon pulls the threads together in a guest Editorial on sustainability.
July 17, 2019

The post-industrial landscapes of Snowdonia's slate industry are being re-imagined as a leisure resource

For a period of over 150 years the landscape of Snowdonia, and particularly the western side from Bethesda to Blaenau Ffestiniog was dominated by a brutal, industrial, visage of dark…
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At MyOutdoors we operate a "Real World" testing system. This means we work together with manufacturers and selected retailers to provide independent test and review of products using a combination of full time outdoor professionals and dedicated amateur users. All products are field tested for a minimum of 7 days, with longer term testing also undertaken, in suitable environments including the Cairngorms, Highlands, Lake District, Peak District and Brecon Beacons in the UK and the Alps, Patagonia and the Himalayas amongst testers' international destinations in the last 3 years.