OUTDOORSmagic Summer Meet-Ups!

We're going to head for the Duddon Valley in the Lakes - see map - where we'll be staying at the campsite at Turner Hall Farm, just up the road from Seathwaite. It's a nice scenic site with reasonable if basic facilities and there's a good pub ten minutes walk away in Seathwaite.

The area's much quieter than the 'honeypots' like Ambleside, Langdale or Patterdale, but it's beautiful with nice climbing at all grades nearby at Wallowbarrow or access to the Coniston Fells and Dow Crag via the Walna Scar Road which starts just up the valley.

OUTDOORSmagic Welsh 3000s Meet-Up: 30-31 August

Following on from last year's rather sad attempt to tackle all the Welsh 3000s in a day, we're going to have another crack at it in August. Full details to be announced nearer the date, but we're going to arrange logistical back up, so you should be re-fuelled at various points.

It's a very hard day, but if you fancy a crack at it, start training now. Of course you can still come along even if you're not interested in the 3000s. Provisionally we'll be staying at the camp site just down the A5 from Capel with, you guessed it, easy access to the pub.

More details on this forum thread.

We held our first OUTDOORSmagic Meet-Up two years ago in Snowdonia and we're run them regularly since then including a successful Gore Event in the Lakes last autumn. The Meet-Ups are simply an open to everyone opportunity to get together with other OM users, put faces to names, go walking and climbing together - or apart if you prefer - and spend a night or two getting happily inebriated in the pun with like-minded people.

Like we said, everyone is welcome, and every Meet-Up we've run so far has been a blast. There's no charge, no pack drill, all you have to do is turn up. In the past we've organised lifts from local stations or further afield, so you're not excluded if you don't drive.

There's a Meets and Partners section of the forum, which exists purely so you can arrange to get together with other site members, organise trips etc. Take a look by clicking here.

And last but not least, a group of OUTDOORSmagic members have formed their own BMC-affiliated outdoors club, which is a web-based, national group which organises regular meets in mountain areas throughout the UK. For more details, see the Mixed Routes web site.