A quick HappyNew Year from everyone here at OUTDOORSmagic -we'll be back properly with all guns firing on Monday, but for nowwe've posted up our regular Friday morning MountainWeather Outlook and Saturday in particular looksace.Beinn Each

of Scotland's own mountain problems not just tomountaineers, but also more generally land managers, policy-makers,the tourism industry and the general public.More generally it's a big year for the outdoors north of theborder with the launch of the Loch Lomond

Yes, like the title says, we're back and fully - ahem - functionalafter the Christmas New Year break and we'd just like to say HappyNew Year from everyone at OUTDOORSmagic.That'll be me, Jon, the editor, Susan (assistant editor), Dave(routes editor

The guys over at Montane have ushered in 2013 with the launch of a new website complete with, well, more of everything Montane really.In particular they've focussed on two fundamentals - information on their range of outdoors clothing and equipment

attractions includingthe return of last year's awesome Ford SkyMasters aerial climbingcompetition.Along with that, you can see and try canoeing, mountain biking, diving,climbing, beer at the Jennings Cumberland Arms, listen to Kerrang Radio- trad outdoor heavy

The nice people at Cicerone Press have been having a bit of an early spring clean and have a big pile of books to sell off cheap, like.The titles are either out of print or have slightly tatty covers and available at bargain prices direct from Cicerone.There's plenty of choice, w...

It's set to be a record year for the 2012 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival - 9-11 March - with an unprecedented number of films submitted for the event, some 226 of them in fact, giving head honcho Matt Heason a lot of whittling to do. A tough job

Ooops, here's some ancient news for you - the Peak District ParkAuthority has issued a 26-page strategy document setting out how thePark will develop over the next five years.The plan has been written by Authority staff, but is based oncanvassing

Shamelessly stolen from the Kendal Mountain Festival web site, but we did ask first...some familiar names there - Alastair Lee for the excellent Autana and Paul Diffley with Widebozy - but the winner of the Grand Prize at this year's event was a

Good news for traditional hairy-chinned mountaineers, it is nowofficially the Year of the Beard.The Chinese New Year celebrations on Sunday ushered in the year ofthe Goat or Ram, which are both hairy, bearded animals andtraditional symbols of peace