With the May Bank Holiday coming up, we just wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about a free offer that we've just launched.

If you buy a pair of brashers at participating stockists throughout May, you'll also get this dandy and handy waterproof map case, plus a useful walking, scrambling and biking 'Explorebook'.

Produced in conjunction with Trail magazine, it features 12 great routes (including accurate maps) so it should be a great addition to your outdoor library.

While of course, a new pair of brashers would be a great addition to your outdoor enjoyment.

Contact us here, if you'd like more info.

Walking World, the popular online walking guide, has now notched up a massive 4000 walks on their database.

What a fantastic achievement.

What's more, every one of those walks has been submitted and verified by a Walking World member, and so is a fantastic testament to the power of user-generated content.

We take our our hats, (and brasher boots) off to all concerned.

Why not find your next walk over on the Walking World searchable database?

In London last Thursday, April 24th, it was 'Walk to Walk Day.'

See here, and here.

And to be honest, we're surprised it wasn't a nationwide event.

Although other than those at brasher Towers who walk to walk anyway, only a few people here joined in.

Because many of us walk regularly, and for miles every weekend anyway, so walking to work would be something of a bus-man's holiday.

Although we do think it's a great idea to encourage more people to take up walking. And who knows some people might get the bug and have a 'Walk to Work' Summer.

If they do, (unsubtle product plug alert!), we can think of no better choice for walking to, and wearing at work, than our recently introduced 'Everyday' range of footwear.

All day long comfort, straight out the box, they bear all the hallmarks of brasher outdoor performance, but styled with the urban wearer/worker in mind.

So well done everyone in London, (and elsewhere), who walked to work on Thursday, and if you need some appropriate footwear to keep going throughout the Summer, we can put you in touch with some great brasher stockists.

Featured shoe style: Borilo.

Featured shoe style: Mateka.

Well not quite, but Lily's creator, and star of the hit teatime show on Channel 4, Paul O'Grady is recently back from South Africa after generously giving his time to help Save the Children out there.

His ambassadorial role for Save the Children involved meeting local kids that have been orphaned and now run their homes.

We were more than happy to provide Paul with a pair of Bosoli adventure travel shoes, for the trip.

Paul is also is a friend of Amanda Mealing of Holby City fame, who we wrote about recently after her charitable work in Sierra Leone.

He heard about us supplying her shoes and how comfortable they were, so consequently we were asked if we would supply shoes for his Save the Children trip to South Africa.

Paul's also helping Save the Children with a mammoth UK knitting campaign which you can read about here.

Here is a little piece on the brasher outdoor day last week from David Newell, who works in customer services:

"Last week, a bunch of us from brasher do what we like to do best, and got ourselves free from the office on our regular quarterly outdoor day.

And as you can see from the photographs, what a day it was, as we experienced all the splendour and adventure of the Via Ferrata at Honister slate mines near Keswick in the Lake District

We set off on a cold day but the wet weather held out until after we completed the climb.

Honisters Via Ferrata is an adventure climbing system that uses permanently fixed cable for safety and protection up the rock face, (which was used by the Victorian miners.)

Via Ferrata is Italian for “iron way” and it is England’s first such structure, but of course, there are many found in the Dolomites and the Alps as a quick scan of Google will confirm.

The owner of Via Ferrata, Mark Weir says: “Honister Via Ferrata is not just a first for the Lake District but the first in England. Not only will this be popular with those looking to make hill walking more exciting and challenging, but it will also introduce people of all abilities to try out hill walking in a completely secure environment with the success of achievement at the end.”

On our trip, the team got clipped onto the cable and started the amazing climb and trek through disused mines and over bridges.

Relaxing over a well earned and much-needed pit at the end of the day, the whole team agreed that this had been a great day, and an outing, (if you've got a head for heights), that we would highly recommend."

Here are some photos of the day from out ever-growing flickr sets:

Sir Ranulph Fiennes appeared in The Daily Telegraph last week.

In a fashion spread entitled: 'Sir Ranulph Fiennes the reluctant model'. (A headline presumably based on the fact that he doesn't look too happy in some of the shots.)

However, in one outfit he's wearing, we were delighted to see that he's shod in a pair of brasher Supalite GTX boots. Hope he liked them.

And although he may have looked uncomfortable in front of the camera, we hope he approved of the legendary out of the box comfort our boots are known for.

Of course, Sir Ranulph is far more at home on a hill-walk than the cat-walk, and this week sees him setting off on a new monumental challenge.

Wednesday, the 2nd of April saw him fly out to Kathmandu to prepare to climb Everest. He will take the South Col route from Nepal, which was first climbed in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

An expedition, he hopes to raise £3 million for Marie Curie Cancer Care's palliative programme, Delivering Choice.

Please follow the link to the site above and support the cause.

Quite a few of us here at brasher take our dogs with us when we take to the hills.

Marketing Manager Zoe takes her Black Labrador, Benji, who as you'd expect for a Lab, loves splashing about in the water. (particularly when it includes leaping of huge heights, and going in after stones.)

Mike, one of the web guys, takes Munky and Zippy his Jack Russell Terriers whenever he and his Missus go walking in Scotland. (And always, unfortunately, on the lead, as Munky is a bit of a canine nut-case. Who given half a chance would shoot down the nearest hole in the ground for a few hours at the drop of a hat.)

While MD Andy, has a Lake District-loving Springer Spaniel called Otis. (As in 'Redding' or 'Lift' Andy?)

And Steve, our Sales Director, has just got 2 Collie pups, who are all of 10 weeks old. Called Ollie and Jake, they get a lot of exercise in the local woods, which they seem to think was created especially for them.

We'll upload some video footage next time we're out with the dugs and our video cams at the same time.

But for now you might like to search out similarly minded hilly-dog walkers on YouTube.

Here are a couple of our favourites.

This is Po, and here are a couple of nameless Labs. (We'll at least one is definitely a Labrador, the other, gorgeous as he/she is, Mmm, we're not so sure of the breed. Some kind of Spaniel? Answers on a postcard please ;-)

Have you got any doggie hillwalking videos?

We'd love to see them.

If you thought celebs only wore Jimmy Choo's and Manolo's, then think again.

Because Amanda Mealing of Holby City, travelled to the slums in Sierra Leone in February for Save the Children and we provided her with a pair of Supalite XCR's for the trip.

Much-travelled Amanda has guest-starred in popular dramas such as The Bill, Midsomer Murders and In Deep.

She also appeared as an ex-girlfriend of surgeon Alex Adams in Holby City before taking up her regular role as Connie Beauchamp; 'a super confident ballbreaker with a ferocious appetite for life'.

Good on you Amanda for helping bring attention to Save the Children's Kroo Bay Project.

How was your walking over Easter?

Our product manager, Philippe Galland certainly caught the weather in the right mood when he ventured all the way up to Ullapool over the Easter weekend with his wife Clare.

You can see his photographs of the trip here on our flickr pages.

And remember if you've any outdoors photography you'd lie to share with us, please email them to Zoe, (zbrookes@pentland.com), and we'll showcase them for you alongside ours.

Philippe, one of our product managers is off to Ullapool.

He tells us:

"We have now completed most of the key Munroes around Torridon and also climbed some exciting routes around Beinn Eighe, even managing to take in one of the most demanding ridge traverse challenges in the UK: Liathach.

Now we feel it's time to explore a little bit further North. This year – and because of the current winter conditions – we are off to Ullapool.

If there is a cold snap in the next few days, the snow will consolidate and some ice should form.

The plan is to complete some winter climbs such as 'Lord’s of the Gully' (Left branch. Grade III) on An Teallach."

In telling us about his plans for this Easter, Philippe was reminded of a trip a year or two back:

"Two years ago Clare my wife and I were exploring the mountains around Torridon. One day we decided to climb Bein Alligin. It was a typical Scottish April day: windy, rainy and snowy conditions :-) During one of numerous motivational 'Tea stops’, we found a pair of glasses lying on the ground. We completed the walk and at the car park I asked a couple of guys if they could tell me where I should drop these glasses ? The guy inspected them and asked me if I'd found them below the Horn of Alligin? Which actually  we had. The glasses in fact, by amazing co-incidence, were his! And he told me that he lost them up there last year! "

Zoe in Marketing, and her husband, (not forgetting black labrador Benjie), are heading of to Monyash in the middle of the Peak District camping and walking for 4 days. (And also not forgetting Zoe's new digital camera, which she's promised will bring back with lots of new photos for our Flick gallery.)

They are planning to do various walks in the Manifold Valley, with fingers crossed that the weather is kind and, indeed everything crossed to ensure as Zoe says that: " With my poor navigation skills I hope we don’t get lost !"

Note from blog Editor: 'Zoe. Keep the questionable map-reading skills quiet eh? We try to imply here that all brasherites are granite-hewn, survival skill expert, map-reading geniuses, not to mention; grizzly outdoor legends. Please don't spoil the illusion.'

Last but not least, Martyn Yorke our Product Developer is off to Burbridge in the Peak District bouldering for the weekend in preparation for his 10 day, hard-core bouldering holiday in Font in April

(Photo used with kind permission of allybeag on Flickr.)

Recently some of the team spent a very enjoyable day out in the hills with Sir Chris Bonnington.

We were in Wasdale, and it occurred to us that a combination of facts could just make this the most interesting valley in Britain.

Fact One:
Wasdale Head, is home to the smallest church in England. St. Olaf's.

Fact Two:
At 252 ft, Wastwater is the deepest lake in England.

Fact Three:
Wasdale has the highest peak, Scafell Pike at 3209 ft, (we know you knew that, but it is worth mentioning.)

Fact Four:
Wasdale was home to the biggest liar. Will Ritson, Victorian landlord of what is now the Wasdale Head Inn, he had a reputation for telling porkies. So much so that an annual 'Biggest Liar in the World' competition is held every year in his honour.

We think that makes for a pretty compelling combination.

Do you have another contender for the country's most interesting valley?

We'd love to hear from you.

Next time you're preparing breakfast after an overnight camp, don't bother to take the stove along, cook breakfast with your torch instead.

But not just any old torch, you'll need one like this,

Described as the world's most powerful flashlight, it pumps out a massive 4100 lumens. (Whatever they are.)

And will doubtless become the torch/cooker of choice obyoutdoor chefs everywhere.

To see it in action, you can go to the YouTube link here.

(Seen on the ever illuminating, LightHikersWorld blog.)

This is a great find from Telegraph TV's travel section.

A short, useful film about being out and about in winter.

(We particularly liked the orange bin-liner demo.)

We came across a great blog the other day from a chap called Mark Reid.

Mark, (described by The Sunday Times as 'Wainwright with Booze'), is the author of "The Inn Way" series of guidebooks based on long distance circular walks via traditional pubs in the Yorkshire Dales, Lake District, North York Moors, Northumberland and Peak District.

We think it's a terrific idea; walking and pubs, a marriage made in heaven.

What's more, for every book sold Mark donates a percentage of the profits to conservation projects with the relevant National Park. Money raised helps fund activities such as habitat creation, tree planting, walls and barns restoration.

So Mark, cheers for the Inn Way series and please keep us posted as new editions come out.

Footnote: When we asked Mark his permission to write about him on our blog, he actually wears brasher Trailmasters. And has done for the last 8 years, getting through a pair every 18 months or so. A reflection we hope, on the number of miles/pubs Mark covers, rather than the typical life-span of our boots!

We were really chuffed to discover this blog recently from an enthusiastic brasher wearer.

The more so when we read the posters comments about our boots.

The blog is called 'A walk to the bridge'. And it really conjures up an affection and appreciation of the countryside that only a walker could experience.

What's more it features some terrific 'seasonal' photography and insightful, first-hand observations of the natural world.

We also liked the reference to 'no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing', in this post.

(Where, we are delighted to report, the blogger, on listing the required kit for walking included: "...a pair of Brasher boots. These are essential. I wear mine every day and I treat them abysmally but they never complain and keep me warm and dry.")

There's also a further reference to: "and the abysmally treated Brasher boots that I wear most days." here.

(Bonus link: You can find a more fully illustrated version of the blog here.)

This is a good find; The University of Liverpool mountain database.

Storing information about more than 2600 hills and mountains in Great Britain and Ireland.

The mountains have been classified according to height and minimum reascent from all other mountains. The classes currently available are Munros and Munro Tops, Corbetts, Donalds, Grahams, Marilyns, Murdos., Nuttalls, Welsh Hills and English Hills.

The mountains can be searched by country and by region or by class of mountain.

Perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, we're big fans of lots of the UK's walking and climbing festivals. (Here's just a selection courtesy of Google.)

And over the next few months we'll be posting about some crackers.

If have any favourites, please drop us a line and we'll try to include it here on our blog.

The Keswick Mountain Festival in May looks a cracker. As does the walking on offer at the North Devon Festival, also in May.

While next month; February 15-23 sees the Fort William Mountain and Film Festival.

Consisting of workshops, exhibitions, the history of mountain rescue, photography, film, lectures and biking events, it looks like Fort Bill really is the place to be that week.

So don't forget we'll keep you posted about some great walking festivals, and please let us know about any you'd like us to mention.

outdoorsmagic have a seasonally appropriate and informed article about the contents of your winter backpack.

Good advice, as always, not forgetting the further observations in the accompanying, 89, (at time of posting) comments.

(Most of which seem to concentrate on the topic of nutrition in the hills. And including to this reviewers eyes, and palate,some fairly unkind words about that confection of confections; Kendal Mint Cake!.

Particularly when you have to join 30 other participants who have to cover
approximately 85 kms in 60 hours, as part of a seven day trip to the top
of Kilimanjaro.

A demanding, 4100m (13500 ft) ascent, over generally rough terrain,
arriving on the summit to a breezy, -14 degree welcome is just what
brasher fan David Bennett, of Bennett Safetywear did early this year, when
he raised £3,500 for Oxfam by taking on Kilimanjaro.

Accompanied by walking pal, Ad Rooijakkers, an ex-PSV football playing,
ex-Dutch marine, (we're are not making this up), they were shod in brasher
Trailmaster GTX's.

As David recalled:
"The Brasher boots were fantastic- not a single blister or even
the slightest red mark on either of us! And at the summit where the
temperature was about -14C my feet were a lot warmer than my hands!."

You can see a little more about David's trip here.

On Wednesday 19th December the brasher team headed to the hills on a pre-Christmas company-wide outdoor activity day.

We were split into three - very competitive teams!:

Santa's Little Helpers, Rudolph's Reindeers and Frosty's Snowmen.

We started at the Old Repeater Station, Grindon near Haydon Bridge then set off in our groups and walked along the roman wall to Caw Gap, passing Crag Lough and also the place on Hadrian's Wall where Robin Hood was filmed.

We all had a go at abseiling down Peel Crag's before continuing on our walk. At the end of the day we had the chance to test our aim at archery, with only a few stray arrows, but most of them hitting the target!

The teams had a few more tasks to keep busy along the way - ranging from a quiz to boiling an egg which helped to boost our scores.

We collected points for each of our tasks with the winning team being announced at the end of the afternoon.

Frosty's Snowmen were the team that came out on top and took the winning position with the help of a perfectly boiled egg!

All in all it was another fantastic brasher day out!

Adventurer John Pilkington has certainly seen more than his fair share of
the world. Often with a pair a brashers on his feet. Here's his story of
an epic journey across the Sahara.

His interest in the trip was stimulated by the fact that every week
throughout the winter, caravans of up to fifty camels arrive bellowing and
snorting in Timbuktu. They are at the end of a three-week, 450-mile trek
and each carries four huge slabs of Taoudenni salt, the ‘white gold’ of
the Sahara.

To find out more, John procured three camels and a Moorish guide,
put on his brashers and set off from Timbuktu to find stunning desert
landscapes and a life lived as it was a millennium ago, when salt was,
literally, worth its weight in gold. This is his story:

A Tale of Three Humps.

"Our days soon settled into a rhythm. At 5am I would awake to find my guide
U Batna kneeling towards Mecca, deep in prayer. Three glasses of
ridiculously sweet tea, then we’d saddle up the camels and be on our way
by six. U Batna spoke only Arabic, of which I knew nothing, but as the
trip progressed he taught me the words he needed to say to me, like
‘camel’, ‘sand’, ‘rice’, ‘tea’ and ‘keep walking’. The going was
exhausting, but by a combination of walking and riding we kept up a good
pace. At midday we would stop for rice and more tea; then carry on until
sunset. There was no road – travellers to Taoudenni take routes of their
own choosing.
After three weeks we reached the salt mines and I was utterly shocked by
the conditions there. There were no streets, no houses, no electricity, no
fresh water; not even any cooking fuel apart from camel dung. Daytime
temperatures reach 30°C in winter and more than 50°C in summer – a
footwear challenge that even Brasher might find difficult to meet. The 100
or so miners survive on a diet of rice and millet, supplemented by camel
meat when a caravan offers them a sick or weak animal for slaughter. To
slake their thirst they can choose between drinking the brackish contents
of local wells or paying a premium price for decent water to be brought
in. It’s truly a posting from Hell.
Salt has been mined in the Sahara since at least the 4th Century, but the
deposits at Taoudenni were only discovered in the 1500s. They come from an
ancient time of higher rainfall when there was a lake in the Taoudenni
basin, and having no outlet its water became steadily saltier until after
many centuries it turned into a pan of solid salt. Later this was overlain
by mud and gravel, so the salt seams today lie some 15 feet below the flat
surface of the basin. Working in teams of three or four, the miners dig
pits down to this level, then cut horizontal galleries in which they hack
out the salt using crude hand-made axes.
On the return journey I fell in with a salt caravan and found out just how
tough desert life can be. The two camel-drivers and thirty camels were up
before dawn and carried on well after dark, covering up to 35 miles a day
compared with perhaps 20 when I had been with U Batna. Once under way the
caravan didn’t stop. We even brewed tea on the hoof, using portable
braziers which the camel-drivers swung in the breeze as they strode along.
At night we cooked rice together on camel-dung campfires, and slept under
the stars.
From Timbuktu the salt is shipped up the River Niger to the port of Mopti,
where Moorish traders sell it on to people from a wide swathe of West
Africa. I joined one of the longboats, known as pinasses, and as we tied
up on the crowded Mopti waterfront I wondered about the future of the salt
caravans. Lorries are making an appearance in the desert, but camels have
the edge in that they don’t consume expensive diesel fuel, and as long as
there’s a demand for salt there’ll always be a role for the camels. But
will U Batna’s sons and grandsons want to spend their lives coaxing these
cantankerous creatures across one of the most gruelling deserts on Earth ? Somehow, I doubt it."

(Footnote:The boots John wore on his epic journey were originally called 'Kubes', and now are no longer in production. However the current evolution of that boot is the new Danso XCR. For details of John’s books and multimedia talks visit www.pilk.net)

Over the Christmas and New Year break quite a few of us here at brasher have got some great walks planned.

(Of course, not quite as exotic as Philippe's), but nevertheless, we've got people heading for the Lakes, the Dales, Lanzarote and Exmoor.

So may we take this opportunity to wish you the compliments of the season, thank you for reading our blog, and please let us know if you too are going anywhere exciting over the festive season.

See you in the NY,

and best wishes from all at brasher.

Philippe Galland works as a Category Manager here at brasher.

Outside the office he can usually be found, trekking, mountaineering or biking in some remote part of the UK's wilderness.

(Incidentally, you can see some of Philippe's excellent photography here on our Flickr page.)

Earlier this year, Philippe married the lovely Clare, however for one reason and another, they had to postpone their honeymoon, but this Christmas, the couple will correct this in some style when they jet off on a 3 week South American jaunt.

Philippe promises to file a report about their travels when they gets back from Rio De Janeiro, Buenos Aires, the Amazon rainforest and the Andes in Peru, and of course will let us all know how the brasher boots perform.

Until then, here's just a flavour of the kind of thing Philippe gets up to:

"My girlfriend, (now wife) and I were in France a couple years ago walking in the high plateau of Vercors in the middle of summer. It was a very hot day and I actually left my water bottle and whole supply behind in a hut – too late to go back. We couldn't find any accessible point to drink as there was a serious draught up on the plateau. We became very, very thirsty and needed to re-hydrate quickly before any serious problems developed. The only spring shown on a map was very dry and any water it offered was very difficult to reach, way below ground. The question was, 'How to reach it?' But luckily, needs must, and an idea occurred to us. I used my Goretex boots with all the laces attached together to create a small rope and as it is water proof.. I could fill up my boot and drink it - Tasted sock though but thanks to my brasher boots and Goretex's ability to keep water in sometimes as well as out, the rest of the day was saved."

Hope you don't have to 'rough it' quite as much on your belated honeymoon Philippe.

We've just found out that our latest women’s winter walking boot, the Gore-Tex, Tambora GTX, has been accredited with ‘recommended’ status in the December 2007 issue of TGO magazine.

To say we are tickled pink would be an understatement.

Praised in particular for its weight, sole unit “gripping well on all terrain” and decisive lacing, the reviewer Judy Armstrong, also described the Tambora's footbed as “one of the best”.

Has anyone out there tried Tambora GTX?, we’d love to hear your experiences and comments…

Here’s a wonderful post about brasher shod walker Christopher Lambert crossing Europe with a sketchbook in his backpack. (Here's a link to find out more about this charming book on Amazon. And as an added bonus, a direct link to Christopher's site.)

Beautiful stuff. Many thanks for the heads up to Katherine Tyrrell at the TravelSketch blog.

In early November John Tremble, our National Account Manager, and Sales Rep, Bill Woodruff, spent a few exhilarating days honing their Mountain Leadership skills in the Lake Ogwen region of Snowdonia National Park,

Camping at Gwern Gaf Lichaf, they were following in the footsteps of Lord Hunt trained in the area before the first conquest of Mt Everest in 1953.

John and Bill's days in the mountains contribute to their qualification as recognised Mountain Leaders.

John and Bill took the time off work in a combination of holiday and company sponsored leave to help them develop their mountain skills.

Over 2 days our men of the mountains did 2 major climbs of over 3,000 ft: Y Garn from the North ridge route and back down through the famous 'Devils Kitchen' into Cwm Idwal, where a steady climb up into the mist at 2000 ft saw the temperature plummeted to below freezing and the chaps got a very creditable layer of frost covering on their fleeces !!

John log for the trip reveals, that they met 2 parties on the way up - including a school trip with some very cold kids.

The first day's 6 hour walk in total culminated with a stop off in the wonderful and most welcome, Lake Ogwen coffee shop for a warm-up and a thaw out!!

On the next day, a Friday John and Bill climbed Tryfan one of the most spectacular peaks in Snowdonia. Approaching from the campsite after a cold night in the valley.

Taking a circular route from the camp up towards the Glyder peaks, then up onto the south summit of Tryfan which changes the walk into a grade 1 scramble over shattered boulders, some of them huge; dumped by the ice as the glaciers retreated.

The weather throughout was challenging: Thursday very cold/wet especially in the mountain top area. Friday turned into a lovely cold but sunny day with clear skies on Tryfan but cloud over Y Garn to the North

Footnotes:
To compare boot properties in tough conditions, John used the Towa GTX on Thursday for Y Garn, and the Aso GTX on Friday for Tryfan. Bill put the Aso GTX through it's paces on both days.

All in all a great 2 days with a great environment to put our boots to the test with spectacular scenes too.

John found that the Towa very comfortable with great heel support and solid underfoot. No blisters and generally a good out of the box experience.
Commenting that the Aso is a heavier boot, but ideal for the tough scramble type walking encountered on Tryfan, with superb ankle support and a very solid sole unit. Reporting too that they handled the tough and rough rocky conditions very well.

On Thursday 27th September a sizable chunk of us at brasher enjoyed a few, fun filled hours, out on The Cheviot Hills.

Three groups of us tramped to the top of Simonside, in just over two hours (and several tired legs later.)

It gave us the chance to test our navigation skills (or lack of in some cases!) with the more experienced brasherites amongst us, sharing their knowledge about how to correctly read a map and use a compass.

On the way back after helping to look for a lost dog, with the unfortunate name of Jinx who hopefully found his way back to his owners!

We all met up and drove to a nearby pub, The Anglers Arms at Weldon Bridge, where we had a delicious, and fortifying meal before heading home for a much needed rest.

On the whole it was a great day out which was enjoyed by all.

We don't normally look like this. When this shot was taken, we were all practicing our synchronised Kendal Mint Cake munching skills.

If you're an old hand in the hills, you'll be aware about the importance of checking the weather before venturing out.

But with new walkers discovering the joys of jaunting all the time, we thought it might be a good idea to share a couple of our favourite online weather resources. (Not least because we all do like a natter about the weather don't we? And checking it out throughly is a good habit for every walker to get into.)

So if you're a first-timer, one link we'd like to point you to is the good old Met Office.

Forecasts cover daylight hours and contain the following information.

• Hazards list.
• A brief summary of the weather on the hills.
• An indication of height and extent of the lower cloud.
• Visibility.
• Wind and temperatures on the hills.
• Freezing level at or below summit level.
• A general outlook for the next few days.

The forecasts are issued daily.

The Mountain Weather Information Service is also worth a look, as are your local BBC weather forecasts.