CONTENTS
Spring 2019
30
Mountain portrait
Jim Perrin investigates the variety of
options for ascending Drygarn Fawr,
not all of which involve bog-trotting!32
The hills the locals love
Top tips from outdoor writers based
in the Lakes, Dales, Peak District,
Dartmoor and SnowdoniaWalking back through history in the
Upper Derwent Valley to consider the
signiicance of its iconic reservoirs40
Why Beinn Dearg is equally as
deserving of your attention as its
three big sistersForgotten
TorridonEscape
Inspiration to get away
8 Arkle
Almanac
In the outdoors this month
10 In the frame Ribblehead
11 News Edale and Scotland
12 EOCA Project voting
14 Guide Haltwhistle
16 In Numbers & News
18 Top 10 Mountains
in TV and ilm
20 TGO Challenge
22 Events
24 Interview Gabriel Stewart
25 Books
26 Letters
28 Roger Smith
114 Readers’ pictures
Unfold a map of the
Peak and you’ll find
reservoirs splashed
all over it, a series of
baby-blue splodges
Ben Lerwill, page 50
On the cover
Taken above Troutbeck, Lake
District, by Tony West
Splashes in the
48 landscape4 The Great Outdoors Spring 2019