Outdoor Enthusiast’s Best Buys and Editor’s Choice are the pick of the products we review in each issue of Outdoor Enthusiast magazine. They may have looked the best, performed the best, or maybe they were just the best value for money. Whatever the reason, these are the ones we love and think you’ll love too. [...]

There was an audible groan in the office when we saw the weather forecast and realised that Marketing Manager James was going to get decent weather for his attempt on the Coast to Coast walk. For months he has been training, walking long distances at the weekend and even doing some strange things with kettlebells. [...]

“The @Google Talks program brings authors, musicians, innovators, and speakers of all stripes to Google for talks centering on their recently published books and capturing the popular and intellectual zeitgeist of the day.” There are over 1300 videos uploaded to the AtGoogleTalks YouTube page, and this talk by Andrew Skurka may be of interest to [...]

In July 2012, British mountaineers Jon Gupta & Nick Valentine will attempt to complete the Snow Leopard Award, one of the world’s hardest mountaineering challenges. The Snow Leopard Award consists of five x 7000m peaks, back to back in Alpine Style, and this will be the first time a British team has attempted the feat.  Should they achieve this [...]

Little James from the OE Magazine office took a trip to the Raleigh factory with his Dad the other day, and here’s what he found out: OK, so that’s not strictly true. This amazing video is in fact from the British Council Film Collection and was shot in 1945 in the Raleigh factory that once [...]

They come in search of surf, sand and some of the most breath-taking views on the North Cornish coast. Now, thanks to a programme of improvement work, visitors to the spectacular Treyarnon Bay can also be assured safe access as they make their way on and off the beach in a south-westerly direction. Previously visitors [...]

As I pull on my aviator headgear, the propeller sparks into life and we trundle off down the runway. And then, whummph, like a pouncing panther we are airborne. This is my first flight in a Pitts Special, a plane that looks like it should have been flown by the Red Baron in WW1, but [...]

ScotRail have recently announced the expansion of a cut-price bike hire scheme – to save cyclists cash and enable scenic A-to-B journeys across the Highlands. The train operator has an existing discount scheme with Ticket to Ride rental shop in Inverness that offers 15% off cycle hire for people with a Freedom of Scotland Travelpass [...]