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Alun's Hill Links

(in real need of an update ... work in progress)

(Galleries & Guides) (Weather & Mountain Webcams) (Official Bodies) (Equipment) (Funnies)
(other hill-related sites)

 

• West Wales Wanderers links
  • Life Wanderers
  • Munich Wanderers
  • Aberystwyth Walking Club -- ex West Wales Wanderers

 

• WEATHER links for all over the UK hills, courtesy of Chris Crocker
• The Angry Corrie, the first and finest hillzine in all the Isles, at the home of TACit Press.

 

• Photo Galleries, Route Guides, etc
  • mad about mountains -- arch-Marylinist Ann Bowker's site.
  • A guide to the Lake District.
  • Wilderness Wales for picture galleries, etc.
  • Walking in Scotland -- Bev Mercer's favourite walks
  • McClassify's -- links to Munro pics around the web.
  • Sub3000 -- Richard Webb's site dedicated to hills that are not M*nr*s.
  • Hillwalking in Ireland -- by Simon Stewart, includes the Long Walks.
  • go4awalk.com -- route maps, GPS waypoints, photo galleries, web cams, etc

 

• Weather & Mountain Webcams
  • Mountain Weather Information Service
  • Met Office Weathercams -- has some weather cams online but only at some Scottish sites to date
  • Snowdon Weather Project -- camviews from Elidir Fach
  • Skiddaw
  • Ben Nevis & Nevis Range from Fort William
  • Cairngorms -- from the people who run that eyesore of a funicular railway
  • Buachaille Etive Mhor from Kings House
  • Pen y Ghent -- from the Yorkshire Tourist Board

 

• National Bodies and other official Associations
  • BMC, the British Mountaineering Council -- to include detail on the upcoming draft CRoW Act mapping.
  • MCofS, the Mountaineering Council of Scotland.
  • MCI -- Mountaineering Council of Ireland.
  • SMC -- Scottish Mountaineering Club.
  • Mountain Rescue (UK) -- info and links at Blue Dome.
  • CCW, Countryside Council for Wales -- responsible for access proposals under the dismally under-publicized Tir Gofal, and the far broader ranging CRoW Act
  • Countryside Recreation Network -- access issues, etc.
  • European Ramblers Association -- details of the ERA and its development of a European network of trans national footpaths, the e-paths.

 

• Equipment etc
  • Ordnance Survey -- Explorer map range, just completed, end-March 2003.
  • Index of Discover-y/er maps of all Ireland.
  • Poles Page -- hiking poles info and advice
  • A general word about proper equipment for British conditions from the SMC, probably written by Ken Crocket.
  • Páramo and Nikwax.  A personal recommendation:  all you'll ever need to keep you warm and dry above ankle level.  Páramo have a decent web site up and running, but you can't buy direct from them since they went online (though the web page will provide with your ten nearest stockists).
  • Cotswolds Outdoor Shop
  • Field & Trek

 

• Funnies
  • signs of a bagger . . . anyone you know?
  • The Mendips
  • Vulture Sheep

 

• other hill-related sites
  • Scotland Online's outdoors articles -- though Dave Hewitt's weekly article, Summit Talks will not continue into April.
  • Hillwalking Links -- a better list of links than this from hillwalking.org.uk
  • Statistical Topics in Hillwalking, by Chris Crocker -- also has combined database (pick your format) of all the hill-lists I can think of, and he plans to keep it up to date with changes in mapping, etc
  • RHB mail list -- concerning all things Marilyns and Marilyn bagging, and a load of other associated nonsense.
  • Blue Dome -- sundry bits and pieces of interest, go see
  • GPS waypoints for hill summits and other GPS links.
  • Mars top changes! (though NASA still give the old figures)
  • The World's Most Prominent Peaks -- David Metzler's global list of mountains ranked by Prominence (i.e. relative height), as opposed to mere altitude
  • Prominence mail list -- global (though mostly US) bagging

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