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- Specialist outdoor and technology journalist with 35 years experience caving, climbing, hill walking
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Competitions........is there life outside the USA?
by Dave Mycroft on 24-08-10 at 02:12 PM
The outdoor leisure industry is a multi-billion dollar market with a worldwide customer base, but it seems it's still the $ part of multi-billion dollar that counts. Despite a global market with global brand names advertising seems heavily biased towards the domestic US market. Take a look at the number of online competitions pushed through facebook and Twitter and it would appear manufacturers are desperate for your business, but take a closer look and you'll find a different story.
People of the outdoor world, the most influential individuals in the outdoors
by Dave Mycroft on 17-08-10 at 10:44 AM
It's a strange world we inhabit if we choose to spend our time enjoying the great outdoors, a world of paradox where we think our decisions are entirely personal choice but behind the scenes our every choice is dictated to us by a group of highly influential people. Take a look at ISPO, Friedrichshafen or any of the big trade shows and you get an idea of exactly where the decisions are made as to what you and I will be wearing next year on the hills.
Good product design is no guarantee
Ten years down the line - cutbacks, insurance and windfarms
by Dave Mycroft on 09-08-10 at 04:31 PM
It's August 2020 and a lot has changed in the last ten years. After 10 years of cutbacks to deal with the economic problems of a decade ago the great outdoors is a different place.
The first impacts seemed minor as the coalition government concentrated on cutting the defecit by cancelling school buildings and cutting back on capital spending, but as local governments turned every stone over in search of savings it was inevitable that something had to give. As councils saw budgets slashed
BBC and wild campers - when will they ever learn?
by Dave Mycroft on 27-07-10 at 11:38 AM
Today's BBC News carries a story entitled "Cumbria beauty spot wild camping warning" that highlights problems at Ulpha Flats and Ulpha Bridge caused by unauthorised camping. Following on from the recent Loch Lomond ban on camping it's a worrying, though not entirely unexpected, development that could have far ranging effects. Unfortunately the BBC have chosen, yet again, to label this abuse in the Duddon Valley as "Wild camping".
Wild camping has very little in common
The Berbers have been very accommodating.
by Dave Mycroft on 19-07-10 at 01:53 PM
The Berbers have been very accommodating could be an important observation for the long distance walking community if a radical idea comes together. The Appalachian Trail, one of the USA's Triple Crown of long sitance trails, is geologically linked to mountain ranges forming a ring around Canada, Greenland, Iceland Britain, France, Spain and even Morroco .....and yes, some bright sparks want to reconnect them all for the first time in 250 million years - as a walk.
