Hiking Navigation
Top 5 Tips for Navigation from a Former Army Officer
Knowing some top tips for navigation are always helpful when out hiking. Although the prevalence of GPS-capable smartphones is a massive leap forward for hikers and hillwalkers in recent years, [...]
9 More Pieces of Hiking Equipment you can leave behind thanks to Smartphones (Part 2)
Continuing on from our earlier blog post regarding the benefits of bringing your phone hiking, here are nine more items you can leave out of your backpack thanks to smartphones [...]
10 Pieces of Hiking Equipment you can leave behind thanks to Smartphones
More and more we’re told to go for a hike without any technology in order to get back to nature. The new term ‘digital detox’ has even made it into [...]
How To Read A Map: A Hillwalk Guide
How To Read A Map “How to read a map?…”, my fellow hiker muttered as he twisted and turned the map this way and that. We hadn’t long started our hike [...]
Identifying Mountain Features
At Hillwalk Tours, we know that identifying mountain features and landscape features is a very important and useful skill to have when out in the hills. The ability to identify [...]
How To Use A Compass
If you’ve ever wondered how to use a compass, this is the right blog for you. We previously wrote a post about how to read a map and this is [...]