Cicerone Book of the MonthTHE RIDGES OF ENGLAND, WALES AND IRELANDBy Dan BaileyAt last! Dan Bailey’s passion for ridges is translated into a fantastic new guide, where his sense of fun, enthusiasm and energy flows through every word. ‘There

's gorgeous Richard Bailey for a demo of the said hood in action. Rather rashly he said yes, so here he is poised for action... 

to have a quick whisk through the new autumn 2011 range with marketing bod Richard Bailey. Confusingly pretty much everyone at ME is now called Richard, but you don't really need to know that.So what's new? Well, first, though it may seem a minor thing

. We always have a competition or two up and running to help OM members on their way to a few freebies, but there's more on offer than usual...We've all followed in the footsteps of Kev Reynolds, Dan Bailey & co at some point in our hiking lives, so we

takes in the gently rolling hills north ofHartington up to Sheen Hill and Pilsbury, site of an ancient Motte andBailey Castle.  [Full route]Pilsbury - Dave MycroftFullroute on the OM Routes Section complete with downloadable GPSdata and online OS mapping

across the area and broken down neatly into sub-regions and finally indexed by place name to help you out. Spot on.The West Highland Way is a similar miniaturised masterpiece from outdoors journo Dan Bailey. It starts off with an excellent overview

faceless summit photos and Iwanted there to be no doubt but that it was me up there. After somereflection, I took one last look and then focused on a fast, safedescent."That evening I had one of the best meals of my life -noodle soup, coke and two Bailey

self-powered round of the Munros insummer 2005 and Dan Bailey, an adventure travel journalist based inFife.The expedition is being supported by Rab, outdoordesigns,Terra Nova, Pacer Poles and others.Making A DonationWe reckon it's a great idea and a

in spring 2012 - 'Great Mountain Days In Scotland' by Dan Bailey is the latest in the series and apparently, being Scotland, the days are BIG - should be worth waiting for and a good accompaniment to Chris Townsend's excellent overview of the country

, though it still has the EXL elasticated lining. That lightweight fabric isn't as water resistant, but let's face it, at 8,000 metres up, rain isn't really an issue...'As light as you're going to get for an ultra-warm jacket' says Richard Bailey. 'Spot