On Hill Walking Magazines
Here are a collection of hillwalking magazines that I have been known to peruse and I have subscriptions to all but the last in the list.
Though geared more towards the more leisurely walker, it does features hill country rambles along more low level walks and has been beefing up the hill country content in more recent times. The associated website is shared with its stablemate Trail and seems as if it is being developed as a separate portal in its own right. I have my reservations about the site’s design but that hasn’t stopped me visiting when it comes to seeing what people thinks of various pieces of outdoor kit.
More of a hillwalking and backpacking title than the above and with a definite Scottish flavour, this is what I would have if I was only allowed one.
The name says it all: the main focus is clearly on Ireland. If I ever get around to walking in my home country, this is from where my ideas could come. Sadly, the website is little more than an advert for the magazine though online subscription purchasing facilities recently got added courtesy of PayPal; a missed opportunity to promote the island as a walking destination in my humble opinion.
Lakeland Walker
I first glimpsed this in Booth’s supermarket in Keswick and was hooked foe a while after. These days however, my lakeland fill is being obtained from other sources and I fail to justify buying it unless needing something on the way home from a Cumbrian excursion.
There was a time when I was a regular reader of Trail but I grew beyond it when its various feature articles stopped appealing to me. That is not to say that I don’t pick up the occasional copy but it’s one of their extensive gear comparisons that will attract my interest rather than anything they feature on enjoying the outdoors. Even so, I recently found the route descriptions collected at the back of a recent issue were to my liking but it’s still not a regular read of mine. It shares its website with Country Walking so the same comments apply as per that magazine.
