Another dig at Trail?

ANNIE BANNANIE

03/05/2005 at 19:21

Andy im over the moon you have made my day, as a middle aged broiler i only buy Trail and now i feel like a spring chicken!qu9ite like OE though :-)

Andy Howell

04/05/2005 at 17:12

I'm glad that your association with Trail helps you feel young! Mind you, Trail is good for looking at the pictures and reading the gear reviews. I worry that it really appeals to people with very limited attention spans!

I've said before, one of the nice things about TGO is that there are articles in it that you can actually read!

Marcus Crompton

04/05/2005 at 18:49

Yeah reading's just for old beardy types though <pulls baseball cap down over eyes and tries to look younger than 38>

Jon Doran

04/05/2005 at 20:38

'I for one would rather have the reviews of world reknowned experts like Chris Townsend/John Manning for gear reviews than some unknown journalist in the great ranges of Peterborough.'

To be fair, the majority of Trail's gear reviews are by renowned expert Graham Thompson, a well known gear reviewer in the great ranges of Ambleside.

We're living with a magazine culture that's been formed by the likes of FHM and Loaded. I'm not talking so much about the attitude as the endless nuggets of information and box-outs, lists, more lists etc at the expense of properly written, inspirational articles. I find that rather sad because inspiration and good writing is what print does best.

Check out the American magazine world and you'll see that stuff like Outside and Climber are still feature based and better for it in my opinion.

I'm not having a pop at Trail, they've obviously decided that it's what the readership wants and their sales presumably prove them right, but it's a bit like Chelsea. Effective, yes but entertaining? I'd rather watch Arsenal or Barca playing beautiful football. But there you go.

OutdoorsMagic Editor | jon@outdoorsmagic.com

Weird Darren

04/05/2005 at 20:46

Jon the only beautiful thing aout Arsenal is their diving. It's so graceful.

Anyway new issues are out soon.

HAsn't the month just flown by.

Marcus Crompton

04/05/2005 at 21:23

I agree Jon. Lists are pretty much at the bottom of my list too. I almost regret complaining about the defunct full-page photos and recipes for ham sandwiches now.

Alison Stockwell

04/05/2005 at 23:34

Annie.

You are not middle-aged. Has no-one told you? Middle-aged is always fifteen years older than you currently are.

:-)

ANNIE BANNANIE

05/05/2005 at 02:54

Lol thanks for the tip Alison! Andy your quite right about readership of Trail, I have the attention span of a knat, but then again i read TGO, Climber, OE, The Edge (when i find an old copy lurking) MTB, The Times, Telegraph, News of the World, FHM. I think its wonderful we have the choice of magazines we do, on such a wide variety of subjects.

Jester*

05/05/2005 at 13:10

I think it's quite wrong of you to say that Trail is for people with a short atte

Jon Foote

05/05/2005 at 13:43

Pity that there's very little effective proof-reading of either Trial or tog.

Andy Howell

05/05/2005 at 17:16

Jon's certainly right about the FHM culture!

Anyone who speaks French should check out the b-monthly Trek Magazine which is absolutely superb.

http://www.trekmag.com/mag_04_reportage_idees.asp

ptc*

05/05/2005 at 17:37

Trail is easier to read sitting in the van with your lunch.
TGO is too involved and slips off the steering wheel mid article.

ANNIE BANNANIE

05/05/2005 at 19:06

lmao james you nearly made me spill my gin!

Yannow if we only had one mag everyone would whinge there was no choice, we have dozens and what ya lot do????????? Gordons or Bombay?

Andy Howell

07/05/2005 at 11:02

Reading TGO in the van. Hmm, you have a point but it basically backs up the notion that you really just look at the pictures in Trail.

For that reason I find Trail better on the bus and train than TGO - it kind of washed over you!

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