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I spent three hours last Tuesday watching a group of hikers huddled under a single, oversized canopy, looking utterly defeated because they’d followed a “complete …

I once spent four hours in a freezing, sodden hollow on the Cairngorms, trying to coax a group of otherwise sensible people out of a …

I’ve spent two decades watching people walk into the mountains with a brand-new, top-of-the-line kit list they bought straight from a glossy magazine, thinking that …

I’ve sat in too many briefing rooms listening to people talk about “predictive meteorological modeling” as if a fancy algorithm can account for the way …

I once spent four hours huddled under a granite overhang in the Cairngorms, watching a group of hikers stare blankly at a GPS unit that …

Most “complete guide to starting hiking” articles online feel like they were written by someone who has only ever walked from a car park to …