We're Back - Happy New Year!

Yes, like the title says, we're back and fully - ahem - functional after the Christmas New Year break and we'd just like to say Happy New Year from everyone at OUTDOORSmagic.

That'll be me, Jon, the editor, Susan (assistant editor), Dave (routes editor), Dominic, our commercial manager and all the people behind the scenes who help the site run relatively smoothly from day to day, particularly the tech guys.

Thanks too to our commercial partners, the companies who advertise with us, without whom there wouldn't be an OUTDOORSmagic site.

The good news is that we've got some exciting new developments coming soon and refinements to existing parts of the site. And the forum, gallery and the review system just seem to get bigger and better all the time.

Anyway... hope you had a great break and got out on the hills over the break. Actually we know a lot of you did - the evidence is in the Gallery in the form of some fantastic pictures.

In particular, the high pressure conditions before Christmas created a lot of classic inversions, the situation where cloud pools in the valleys, but the tops are left clear and sunny standing above a sea of murk. When you break through above the cloud line, the results are astonishing with peaks standing out like islands in the cloud.

Here's RichardSun's evocative shot of the Glyderau from Crib Goch as an example.

Or Geoff C's shot of a Lakeland inversion viewed from Great End.

And one more from RichardSun, this is the South Ridge of Snowdon peeping out above the clouds, nice :-)

Loads more great pics in the OUTDOORSmagic Gallery and a reminder that all OM members have 3MB of free space to upload their own outdoor images. Have a browse, it's inspirational.