OWPG News (other than Outdoor Focus issues – see Outdoor Focus for these)
Kicking off the first, of hopefully many regional OWPG Members get-togethers, the Northern England regional group is organising a day’s walking in the dramatic valley of the Upper Eden. This is a very informal get-together for OWPG members in both the North of England and Southern Scotland and will, it Read more…
A tribute to Kev Reynolds by OWPG Vice-President, Roly Smith Anyone lucky enough to have attended one of Kev Reynolds’ legendary lectures will recall how he often described himself as “the man with the world’s best job.” And I would claim, judged from our 40 years of friendship and as Read more…
It is with great sadness that we report that Kev Reynolds, prolific Cicerone author and 2014 recipient of the OWPG Lifetime Achievement award, died on Friday December 10 2022. A longer tribute from one of our members will follow in due course.
By Stan Abbott – Big Weekend Organiser
Should we dare to gaze, collectively, towards the promised sunlit uplands of a post-COVID world, we can now look forward to next year’s Big Weekend, which is scheduled for the weekend of Friday October 8, 2021, to Monday October 11.
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The OWPG Awards for Excellence were announced on Nov 7 2020. Normally this would have been part of our Big Weekend – the annual members gathering which moves location each year to one of the UK’s many scenic places. 2020 of course had to be rather different. Instead of catching Read more…
The summer 2019 OWPG Media Bulletin can now be downloaded as a PDF. If you are an editor or publisher and want to know something about somewhere or you want somebody to go somewhere, then the chances are that someone from the OWPG is there already, has just come back Read more…
The winter 2019 OWPG Media Bulletin can now be downloaded as a PDF. If you are an editor or publisher and want to know something about somewhere or you want somebody to go somewhere, then the chances are that someone from the OWPG is there already, has just come back Read more…
by Roly Smith – OWPG Vice-President It’s a strange fact but my 25-year friendship with the distinguished Scottish access campaigner and writer Rennie McOwan, who has died aged 85, began with a heated argument conducted in an inflatable boat speeding up an icy fjord in Arctic Svarlbard. As Rennie and Read more…
PRESS RELEASE 15th November 2018 “WE’RE BACK IN THE DAYS OF THE MASS TRESPASS ON KINDER SCOUT” SAYS CHRIS PACKHAM AT OWPG GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD PRESENTATION Chris Packham has declared himself determined to step up his campaigning after receiving the OWPG Golden Eagle Award for distinguished services to the outdoors. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE 29 October 2018 Chris Packham has been honoured by the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild (OWPG) for distinguished service to the great outdoors. The naturalist, television presenter and author received the 2018 OWPG Golden Eagle Award, winning an original watercolour by Guild member David Read more…