We have winners! Many thanks again for the numerous submissions, it yet again was hard to choose the winners and honourable mentions - you are truely a very talented readership!

You’d be forgiven for thinking that Ultralight has died with all the talk about it. But like a cat, this philosophy has many lives; and ideas, well, they don’t die. And so I feel a bit like Carrie Bradshaw, as I couldn’t help but wonder: Have some people just not understood what ultralight means?

This is a very long post, and includes contributions from Glen Van Peski, Colin Ibbotson, Ron Bell, Andrew Skurka and Chris Townsend. Fetch a cup of tea or coffee and then read more!

The worst month of the year has started, but happily at the end of it a week in the outdoors is on the menu.