The Archive: Climbing Magazines 1980 - 1990
Something that never fails to capture our attention is old outdoor ephemera. Leafing through tea-stained pages of climbing magazines is an activity we spend hours doing at Hikerdelic HQ, and we're fortunate enough to have amassed a pretty hefty archive as a by-product of this pastime. The golden era of outdoor catalogues is up for debate, but in our view, you can't get much better than the '80s and '90s. The colours were brighter, typefaces were bolder, and smiles were wider. There's something irrefutably motivating about magazines from this era. Something that makes you want to put down the bundle of paper and head outdoors to assimilate the feats of Joe Brown & Don Whillans. As much as our office could be a library, it's not. Therefore, the only way we can share our mountains of outdoor ephemera with you is through scanning pages and posting them here. So, sit back, start dusting off your hiking boots, and revel in the scans of the golden era below.
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