Interview with Caroline Allen author of the new book The Ireland Way launched in 2017, which links together several trails the create the first long distance coast to coast walk on the island. The Ireland Way is a walking and cycling trail over 900km / 560 miles. It covers 14 counties from Cork to the Giant's Causeway. It takes roughly 40 days to walk. Along the twenty stages you will explore seven mountain ranges, woodland, farmland, bogland, coasts, rivers, lakes, Irish culture and warm hospitality. Please visit the website for further details and links to facebook, instagram, twitter, trip advisor and pinterest.

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In this the last from the 4 part series recorded at The Photography Show 2018 I speak with the last two brands Canon and Olympus for their good, better, best suggestion for the ideal camera for outdoor enthusiasts. Andy continues his round and has a close up look at Jobi and the Gorilla Pods plus another specialist holiday company who will whisk you away to exotic destinations and help you capture never to be repeated images.

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A great podcast for you packed full on interesting information all related to outdoors and photography. We meet Nikon and FujiFilm who make their suggestions as to the good, better, best cameras for outdoor enthusiasts. From simple point and shoot tough cameras through to the top of the Nikon range. Interesting to hear the unique approach FujiFilm take towards each product in their XT range. They all actually use the same sensor throughout but it is just the extra features you pay for. Andy is very impressed with an adventure travel photography company who give you the complete immersive experience while you learn and travel at the same time, plus he spotted a unique product which has come to market via Kickstarter, which provides you with accurate exposure and colour temperature readings using your iPhone.

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In this podcast we continue our search at the Photography Show at the NEC for the best camera of 2018 for outdoor enthusiasts and this time it is the turn of Panasonic to give us their suggestion for good, better, best.

Their choices are the TZ-200 Compact, the FZ-330 Bridge and the top of the range G9 with some conversation on the tough little FT30, the latest version of the FT3 which I’ve had for years and carried on many an expedition in all weathers.

Andy revisits his youth and talks to Ilford to discuss a new solution which turns any art paper into an a masterpiece using your inkjet printer. This will appeal to those who really love to take time to craft their image from inception through to hanging it on the wall.

Finally there’s something to learn from Atomos if you have desires to use your camera to create broadcast quality video. What many people don’t understand is that the compression format your data goes through is actually slowing down the editing process and reducing the quality of the video potential. This is for people with aspirations to create the absolute best moving image along with their stills.

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In this podcast Andy and I visit the 2018 Photography Show at the NEC with two objectives in mind.

I had arranged to meet all the major brands to try and narrow from each of them 3 cameras (good, better, best) which would be ideal for the outdoors enthusiast. I’m not talking action cams, or heavy DSLR’s, but those in between which offer remote charging via USB, good weather resistance, and features that appeal.

I hoped they would provide the details and reasons for the best tool for the job.

Andy’s task was to find everything else which would appeal, anything small, lightweight and which added a function to our outdoor lives we just couldn’t live without.

This is part 1 of 4 podcasts from the show.

Enjoy

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We continue our discussion with Keith and his book High and Low and during the discussion touch on many deeper aspect of the content and how he dealt with the realisation that depression was the cause of his emotional rollar coaster.

We start of discussing his views on food preparation for walks such as the PCT or AT. We discuss if hikers over prepare?

What about finances? Many listeners want to know how people like Keith prepare financially for through hiking. He gives a very honest reply and it will make you wonder about your own pressures.

What about the sacrifice you make for a through-hike. Is the reward worth it?

He opens up about the moment that he had to face the Doctor and admitted that the diiagnosis was in fact true. The worst day of his life.

After this moment he had to face many painful home truths. The influence of alcohol and diet and how much this effected his life was one of many things he had to address.

The conclusion of our conversation may surprise you. There could be changes afoot for Keith and possibly a whole new door opening.

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With many outdoor long distance hiking books under his belt, this unique offering High and Low adds to the growing library of Keith Foskett.

An interesting mix of people, places, mishaps and depression. In this first part of the 2 part interview we discuss aspects from the book and also Keith's approach to hiking life.

Depression is like chest pain. You know its serious when the doctor wants to see you the same day.

Battling ferocious weather, the ubiquitous Scottish midge, strange-sounding local delicacies and sub-standard TV sets, this is one man’s battle to conquer the wilds of Scotland, and his own psychological demons.

When dealing with emotional baggage, it’s best to pack light.

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Libby and Lisa completed their self-propelled, continuous round of all 282 Munros in the summer of 2017 in 77 days, setting a new fastest-known female time!

Beauties and the bog are a team of fell running women based in Sheffield, UK, close to the Peak District National Park. Originally formed as a team for the High Peak Marathon, their adventures began when training for this 42-mile, overnight fell race.

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We finally have to leave the solutiude and romance of Sandwood Bay and head for Cape Wrath lighthouse. Although we can see the lighthouse form the bay itself, the first fence we have to cross has the ominous sign, suggesting that checking for a live firing exercise might be a sensible thing to do! However, there’s no phone signal at the bay and we felt confident from the conversations we had with villagers and shop keeprs on route, that live firing had been cancelled that day. Even so, we umm’d and ahh’d for a while before deciding as we couldn’t hear anything exploding to go for it! Underfoot it was probably the hardest part of the trip. We chose not to stick close to the coast, which would have meant dropping into deep gullies only to have to climb back out again, but keep a kilometre inland where the track was more undulating. I say track, but it was more a case of picking the best line through the bog and marshland.

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