The Isle of Wight Walking Festival is back for 2012 kicking off on the 5 May and the big news is that they're short of men for the festival 'Speed Dating Walk' - oh, and some bloke from Level 42 will be walking across burning embers for charity

One for the diary with the the Isleof Wight Walking Festival Celebratory Weekend scheduledfor the weekend of 24-27October and featuring a speed dating walkand Alan Hinkes no less...The weekend will feature nearly 50 walks and marks the tenth

data and report back to the WeatherLine online and phone service. Once on top they record wind speeds and conditions underfoot so that walkers can have the most upto date information possible. With a cold snap and snow forecasted at the end of this week

.Led by experts with detailed local knowledge, there's a huge rangeof walks on offer from gentle town strolls to arduous trudges acrossthe moors. There's even a singles walk if you want to make theoutdoors your speed-dating party.We particularly like the look

tell us will feature are 'The Swiss Machine', a documentary about Ueli Steck, the prodigiously talented and ridiculously fast Swiss alpinist with stunning aerial footage of his speed ascents of major alpine faces culminating in a trip to Yosemite to pit

back to base). This is called a track backDownload the log into a digital mapping system so that you can review your performance (position, elevation, time and date, speed)With Memory-Map, you can convert a track to a route on the PC screenGPS Training

is generally very windy - that's windy enough to make walking hard up high - and showery, while wind speeds drop a bit on Sunday, but still blustery, again with rain. Next week doesn't look too

Park Rangers' from the city's regeneration department, who are already both fund-raising enthusiastically – events include a speed-dating evening - and training hard in the Peak.If you want to join them, you need a team of five walkers plus a non

This week's tip is a reminder as much as anything, with a quick look at handy winter weather resources to keep you up to date on hill conditions as things get cold and gnarly.We run a regular Friday weekend mountain weather summary here on OM

. Nevisport's mountain weather forecast covers the main UK mountain areas, updated twice a day and gives both a general overview and a three-day outlook with useful stats like wind speed, freezing levels and both valley