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Richard Gear's Top Wet Weather Camping Tips
The man himself reveals his mildly devious advice for staying dry in your tent when the going gets drippy

10 September 2002

HSE Launches New Water And Rock Safety Guide
New safety guidleines for providers of combined water and rock activities like gorge walking and canyoning have been released by the Health and Safety Executive

31 July 2002

Scramble Like A Pro
Top tips and cunning techniques for when the tough get scrambling and the scrambling gets tough...

18 April 2002

Scrambling - The Basics
What is scrambling? What do the grades mean? Where to go and a guide to what the guide-book jargon really means...

18 April 2002

Free Beginners' Navigation Day In Peak
Can't tell you contours from your elbow? The Peak Park Rangers are organising a free navigation instruction walk aimed primarily at beginners, pre-booking essential

25 March 2002

Water World - How To Stay Dry-ish
If you walk or climb in Britain and aren't a fish then you're going to get rained on. Here's our realistic guide to minimising the misery

15 March 2002

Red Bull Race Tops Prize Stakes
The Red Bull Northern Exposure event has the UK's biggest ever prize purse, plus latest news and details of skills preparation weekends

14 February 2002

John Dunne Masterclasses
Learn to climb Yorkshire stylee at a weekend masterclass with big, burly but brilliant John Dunne at Plas y Brenin

16 January 2002

Free Scottish Mountain Safety Day
Boots Across Scotland is running a free Mountain Safety Day in Stirling later this month for anyone interested in gaining mountain skills and more

12 September 2001

World's Biggest Covered Climbing And More
...like an indoor Via Ferrata section at the new Ratho climbing complex

18 June 2001

The OUTDOORSmagic Tarmac Code
How to avoid ending up as roadkill if you must take to the tarmac

18 April 2001

World's Biggest Climbing Centre - Exclusive Pic
It's chewy, no, it's crunchy but is it plastic or rock?

01 March 2001

Ace Race School
From the current issue of On The Hill Magazine

22 February 2001

Scottish Winter Climbing Performance Seminar
Glenmore Lodge courses plus free lectures and talks

07 February 2001

Scottish Avalanche Education Courses
Two-day courses in February from the Mountaineering Council of Scotland. It could save your life.

22 January 2001

Wind Up For Winter
Our tips for staying top on the winter hills

16 January 2001

Follow In Joe Simpson's Footsteps...
... and climb waterfall ice. Here's where to start

07 December 2000

Joe Simpson's Guide To Waterfall Ice
'Teenagers take drugs because they are being insane, paranoid and unbearable. Sadly adult ice climbers cannot resort to this rationale. They are just odd.'

01 December 2000

Don't Crater Till Later
New video highlights climbing wall safety

30 November 2000

Navigate By CD
New navigation course takes the guesswork out of mountain route finding

21 November 2000

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