Blacks were still turning out Good Companions tents when i bpought my first copy .It included an article about how the armed forces had bought a load of non issue kit to take to the Falklands ,Karrimats and Karrimor frame packs ,and Berghaus Roc packs (direct ancester of the PLCE ) .With articles by the likes of Showell Styles and adverts for Ultimate and Survival Aids it did seem like a very specialist magazine . And the fact was that not many people wanted to pull on Rohan striders and go to the hills at that time .
Let's face it too though, the issue kit for the forces in 1982 was such crap, most dating back to 1958 - webbing, boots etc - and the seventies - lined combats - that all the guys going out there to the South-Atlantic had to take their own alternative self buy kit! Especially cold weather kit and decent boots! Those that tried to last out in the 1958 pattern DMS - Direct Moulded Sole - ankle boots and puttees soon mostly went down with immersion or trench foot, in the wet and muddy Somme like peat soil conditions they were dug into for defence against Argentine air-raids out there.
Then along came Odyssey magazine - anyone remember that? I think it was also edited by Chris T, and I've got some copies up in the loft! It then became Wilderness Odyssey, but this changed name didn't help things and it seemd to go the same way as Footloose. I suppose once EMAP launched their outdoor titles smaller publications suffered, but it's great that TGO goes from strength to strength to strength!!
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