 I'm belatedly getting round to reading the February issue, and just wanted to mention how much I enjoyed Andrew Terrill's article on being stuck in a tent on the side of a hill in a prolonged storm, in Scotland. I've had similar experiences over the last 12 months, and what he wrote struck a chord with me. Exciting stuff! Thanks :)
Incidentally, I was very curious about what tent he was using. Does anyone from TGO know, please?
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I'm not 100% sure but I do know Andrew habitually uses an old Robert Saunders Backpacker tent. Whether this was the one he was referring to in the article on not I'm not sure but we'll check with him.
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Thanks :-) I love tent talk.... <blush...>
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 Andrew is a *superb* writer. A great find, Cameron. Hopefully there will be more and more and more articles of his in TGO! (BTW, has he written any books?)
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 Speaking of enjoying writing I enjoyed your Pennine Way account, Peewiglet. Hope you put more such accounts on your site soon!
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Andrew Terrill is certainly a latented lad and a great enthusiast. He's currently living in Colorado with his new American wife and they're awaiting their first child. I believe he's actually working on his first book. We'll let you know when it will be published. Look out for another Terrill feature in tgo's May issue when he'll be writing about Italy's Gran Paradiso.
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 Off topic i know, but PBA has just reminded me.
Peewiglet, your account of your PW journey was a great. I spent a happy couple of hours at work reading it - never really considered doing it before, might look into it now.
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 I gotto renew my subscription. The exchange rate does make it kinda expensive to send it to the US though.
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PBA and Jason T - thank you both v. much indeed for your kind words about my PW account :) I'm delighted that you enjoyed it: I enjoyed writing it!
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Cameron - Just a thought. Have you ever considered sending out TGO in electronic format to cater for potential international readers? I know the US is under-catered for in this specialist area, and Backpacker magaine is particularly poor compared to TGO (though there are good general adventure mags, like Outside and NG Adventure). This must be the case elsewhere in the world.
While I subscribed after moving to the US for a year, when shipping is thrown in, and the declining dollar, it became cost-prohibitive to continue.
Working in electronic publishing I wouldn't have though turning the mag into a PDF and e-mailing it out would have been too tricky, though I guess the file size would be big.
I would have thought this could give you a head start over other mags in this area - it's the way of the future. And you could probably charge the same for it as a print subscription, while saving your shipping costs.
Just a thought - albeit a selfish one so I can get a cheaper subscription to the mag - but it does seem to me to be a way to open up to a new market of readers.
(Having once worked for Newsquest I realise that this may take ten years or so to come about ;o) )
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Online publishing with PDFs through a secure subscribers area is straightforward enough. Best thing for TGO would be to outsource it to someone who's done it already ;) ;) ;)
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Any more word on the tent Andrew was using? I'm addicted to this sort of sad info, I'm afraid!
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 Lew Twiglet,
Andrew Terrill has just become a daddy (Mum and Baby doing just fantastic by all accounts!) so the tent info might have to hang back. Hope you can wait just a weegiplet while longer!
Seems to be in vogue here - Mike Harding's just sent us pictures of his newest wee grandkiddie from the States, and our health expert Pam Wilson is also due to give birth in the not too distant.
No such news from Cameron and myself, alas, we're just good friends.
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Oh, and Richie S,
You might have seen Cameron's. posting on the subject elsewhere - we are looking into getting an electronic version of tgo out there, on a subscription basis. This should happen sooner rather than later.
Hopefully this won't put too many paperboys out of work.
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Thanks, John. Congrat's to Andrew, mum and baby! :)
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 Finally got round to joining this forum after endless rounds of nappy changing, and I see that people have been generous with their comments. Many thanks Peewiglet, Zubald and Cameron for the kind words. Makes it all worthwhile.
As for Tent talk... yep, Cameron was right I do use Robert Saunders tents. It was a Spacepacker during the stormy Torridan trip, but mostly I just stick with the smaller Jetpacker.
The Jetpacker has been my castle for 17 years. It has withstood phenomenal winds, overnight snow dumps three feet deep, near biblical downpours, and some exceedingly odorous sock smells, and it has never let me down. It's not intended as a four season tent, but it has done the job just fine for me. Highly, highly recommended.
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Thanks, Andrew :) Congrat's on the new baby, BTW, as well as on a great tent!
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