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Festive greetings to all our readers from the grough team

We’d like to wish you all a happy Christmas! All the team here at grough hope you get everything you could wish for from Santa to help you enjoy ...

Tree scheme beats Stanage project to win grant

Walkers’ and climbers’ projects missed out in a public vote to decide where a £5,000 grant would be spent in the Peak District.

Path repairs will help Coast to Coast walkers

Walkers on Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Walk will have a smoother passage along part of the route after improvements to a badly eroded section.

Reprint for Wainwright charity calendar

A calendar featuring photographs of some of Alfred Wainwright’s favourite fells has been flying off the shelves.

'Superb flying' saves Halloween climber from Idwal horror

A climber was plucked from a north Wales crag by an RAF helicopter performing what mountain rescuers described as ‘superb flying’ in appalling conditions at the weekend.

Bag Crianlarich's twin peaks in one day

The giant twin peaks of Crianlarich, Ben More and Stob Binnein, are a great destination which, on a clear day, will give a fabulous vista of the Highland mountains..

New mapping system will help colour-blind

Britain’s national mapping agency has introduced a new product to help people who are colour-blind read maps more easily.

Cow attack puts Dales Way walker in hospital

A walker was hospitalised after being attacked by a cow in the Yorkshire Dales. The incident happened as 86-year-old Ken Honeyman was on the Dales ...

Council urged to drop footpath plan

Campaigners are urging a Welsh council to drop plans which, they say, will lead to the neglect of some of its public paths.

Flood-damaged paths mapped by Lakes authority

Walkers in the Lake District are being urged to check on the state of footpaths as Cumbria recovers from the devastating floods that left £1.6m of damage and left many bridges and rights of way either destroyed or damaged.

Anniversary challenge to councils to put themselves on the map

Councils are being challenged to wake up and get their maps up to date, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the law that obliges them to record rights of way.

The gift for walkers with it all: a metre of footpath

What Christmas gift do you buy for the walker who has everything? If the committed hiker in your life has the latest garish Gore-tex, an all-singin...

Campaigners 'jubilant' on double green-letter day

Typical! You wait more than70 years for landmark outdoors laws and then two come along at once. Campaigners have been reacting to what the Open Spa...

Artist's quest reveals state of Lakes paths

An artist’s quest to recreate the sketches of the Lake District’s celebrated chronicler Alfred Wainwright has uncovered the extent of footpath erosion in the area.