OWPG News (other than Outdoor Focus issues – see Outdoor Focus for these)
In this Spring 2026 edition of Outdoor Focus we take a sneak preview at this year’s Big Weekend destination. Roly reviews the latest books and celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Peak District National Park, Stan Abbott reflects on a quarter century of work in the Faroe Islands and Tony Read more
In the winter edition of Outdor Focus we welcome Nicole Bukaty and welcome back Stephen Neale. We look back at the Big Weekend and the AGM and take a tour of the year’s winning entrys in the OWPG Awards for Excellence. Kevin Sene also describes a tour of the Mountain Read more
In the autumn issue of Outdoor Focus we welcome three new members; Leo Le Bon, Sophie Atherton and Matt Overd. Andrew Bibby draws our attention to the upcoming anniversary of the CRoW act and Stan Abbott gains access to a forbidden Marilyn. Chris Scaife reports from Madeira on the plight Read more
In this issue of Outdoor Focus we welcome Rachel Mead and Mike Parsons to OWPG; Kevin Sene gives us a preview of the Big Weekend 2025; Dee Anna explores the bewitching Bodetal Climb in Germany; David Jordan interviews Jacquetta Megarry on the 25th anniversary of Rucksack Readers and Sue Viccars Read more
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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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
TGO turns 40 this year and the OWPG send our very best wishes to all those who have been part of this magazine over the years from editors and staff to contributors and of course, those who read it. OWPG has many long-standing and current contributors to TGO amongst its Read more