The Week In Pics

Golden sandy beaches, Mont Blanc at sunrise, and very large orange tents in this week's edition.

Coigach Hills

"30 secs later - hailstones!" according to photographer Sagara, when this snap of Cul Mor was taken. It's all a matter of timing. One minute you're reaching for the tripod; the next you're reaching for the Gore-Tex jacket...

The After Glen Coe album has been bulking up a fair bit recently and it's full of photos where the combination of light and cloud seems to be just about perfect. Ullapool Boats, below, is one of them and it didn't even cost all that much effort - apparently it's a view from just outside the SYHA. You can't ask for a much better location for a hostel.

Cul Mor from Stac Pollaidh, by Sagara

Ullapool Boats, by Sagara

Mont Blanc

Alan's Mountain Travels are enough to inspire jealousy even in an armchair mountaineer. The weather obviously treated him kindly on the Chamonix leg of his ventures, and the Welsh leg isn't exactly lacking in atmosphere either. Allow plenty of time for browsing through the brooding Snowdonian skies, Alpine ridges, and this pic of the Misty Mountains which makes you wonder why Peter Jackson didn't realise they are really in Wales:-)

Mont Blanc at Sunrise, by Alan Bellis

Misty Mountains Snowdonia, by Alan Bellis

Lakeland Rivers

The Lakes - April 2007 album is new, and overflowing with white water - not to mention a very contemplative looking dog.

Stickle Ghyll, by Kev Murley

Sun and Sand

We haven't had much of a summer on this side of the English channel so time for a quick hop across to the far side, where conditions look decidedly more promising. The Normandy album features the sun and sandy beaches we're lacking over here,and a good old sea gull scrap into the bargain.

View from walls Mont St. Michel, by Adrian Esland

My tent's bigger than yours ...

We've had plenty of friendly disagreements about tent colour on OM - are you a vibrant yellow tent owner or do you go for camouflaged green? - but this time the question is size. "Maybe we should have pegged it down before the wind got up and blew the tent down the garden..." is Captain Paranoia's comment on this particularly commodious orange tent. The album name - That's not a big tent ... - says it all.

Walking Tents, by Captain Paranoia

That's all for now. Upload your photos here - we love looking through them - and if you want some inspiration for places to take your camera, try the routes section of the site. Also, the new, the wonderful, and the downright weird, from the world of outdoor gear, is always up for comment in our gear reviews. Or you could just while away the afternoon chatting in the forum ...