 which magazine's staff walks the most miles in a year?
By this I mean to exclude walking to work etc. Miles in the mountains or doing trails only.
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 Does it matter? Is it a competition, hobby or lifestyle?
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If it's a competition I'd elect John Manning for his 2700 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail last year. I've never counted how many miles I've actually walked but I'm well into my third round of the Munros and spend an everage of 50-60 nights a year in a lightweight tent. I'm generally on the hills every weekend and I usually get about 2-3 overseas trips a year - Nepal, North America, Alps etc but to quote another of your contributors – "I'm a professional" :)
For me it's a lifestyle thing.
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 Cameron - no wonder I can never get you in - there was me thinking you were avoiding me when you were out the back in your lightweight tent.
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 Darren,
the only visible purpose of such a question is to make us all jealous and want to get a job with TGO! I think it would be a hell of a lot more likely that people based and living in Scotland would have more opportunity to get into the hills than those living in the mountain ranges of East Anglia.
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Dave, I was hoping for a rumble between Trail and TGO in the Peak Districk or maybe Yorkshire.
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 Chris Townsend walks a fair few miles and yes, I was going to sugest Cameron McNeish.
And a thumbs up to your book Cameron, 'The Wilderness World'
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Many thanks, Brenda, that's very kind of you.
Dave is right – I live in the shadow of the Cairngorms, in Newtonmore and I chose to live in this area about 30 years ago when I decided I wanted to spend my life climbing hills. I've been lucky in what I do for a living, but it is a lifestyle thing. To some people I'm very fortunate, even very lucky. To others I'm just a sad bastard... Ho Hum!
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Oh, and Lindsay, keep trying mate - I'd love to have a few days out with you...
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 Cameron - interesting thread. I'd be interested to know if you are a family man and if so, how you reconcile the demands of family life with so much time away. I'm very envious. I'm lucky to get one week a year in the highlands, although I do have a young family and live in london.
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 Hey it's not all walkie you know - there's a desk goes with the job too! Since I got5 bacmj from the PCT I bet I haven't clocked up more than a few hundred miles (unless you count the walk to work from my flat two miles from the centre of Glasgow!). Nice walk if you can get it!
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Yes ecco, I am a family man. I've been married for 33 years and my wife hikes with me quite a lot. We have two son who are now 31 and 28. As I mentioned, albeit tongue in cheek, I am a professional ie I do it for a living – editing magazines, making radio and tv programmes, writing features and books, and as John suggests, the desk does get in the way. My wife suggests I mention I tend to work a 14 hour day, most days, but hey it's lifestyle...
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Oh, I've just remembered the story of Fritz Chrysler, the famous violinist. A lady once told him she'd give her life to play the violin like he did. He looked at her and said, "Madam, I did."
But as I mentioned earlier, one person's lucky hill walking writer/ journalist/broadcaster is another person's sad bastard
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can't say i envy the tgo peeps jobs' nowadays. knowing that their efforst are going to be printed out on toilet paper (the mag seems to be heading downhill - wass wrong Cam?). If I was John manning I'd start walkign to work in the morning and just keep going, past his office and into the hills.
think on, cam - 14 hours a day to be printed on andrex!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for that Arthur. Toilet paper? Andrex? Anybody else think that?
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Maybe that explains why our dog runs out of the bathroom with my TGO......or maybe it's just he recognises the pictures as related to walks ;-)
Seriously though.....not Andrex or toilet paper, but it has that feel of the early attempts at recyled paper. I like the matt finish but the paper does feel cheap. If the budget meant a choice between the well respected writers or the quality of the paper keep the writers as they more than make up for it.
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If I had my way Id make all magazines print on news paper, all that wasted high quality paper tonnes of bleach and all the processing just for a few moments looking at somebody else’s grand day out. The quality of a magazine is in the printed word, if you want nice pictures buy a coffee table book. and if you really need nice pictures of boots get a catalogue. I wonder how many magazines are actually kept for more than a few months. If I kept all mine there’d be no room in the house by the end of the year.
Obviously good paper is needed for such as Colin Priors works and maybe the front cover but its high quality writing that interests me when I pick up a publication.
but happen I'm wrong!
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 jim, as soon as I can get near to the computer I'd reply to your post (must get rid of all those copies of MBUK).
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Jim Brown 2....we've got every single issue of The Great Outdoors but those odd copies of Trail end up in the garage and get chewed by mice.
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