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Two hundred issues! Wow! Our Winter 2026 issue is out now. And it’s an absolute cracker of an issue, too. For starts, check out that cover! The image was taken by Daygin Prescott of Shaun Mittwollen during a probable first descent on the backside of Tassie’s Cradle Mountain. It’s incredible that Daygin was able to get this kind of perspective not from a drone but from the cliffs above, and I just love the way the rocks give these lines of perspective that all converge on Shaun mid-descent. It’s a stunning shot from a wild winter adventure, the type of outdoors challenge that has typified Wild over the last 200 issues.

Speaking of 200 issues, we have a few special stories in the issue to celebrate. We’ve got Bob Brown making a guest reappearance as a columnist. Michael Collie remembers when Wild was a startup. We have a selection of the greatest Wild Shots ever. And we have an amazing profile, written by Megan Holbeck, on a contributor to Wild who not only wrote in the very first issue, he wrote in the most recent one prior to this, and with many other contributions in between—we’re talking a profile on none other than the legendary guidebook author John Chapman.

But being Wild, the issue is, naturally, all about adventure. Let’s start with the winter-specific content first. As well as Shaun’s piece on skiing Cradle Mountain, we have an awesome photo essay of famed Canadian ice climber Will Gadd tackling Kosciuszko NP’s Blue Lake. We have a how to overnight snowshoeing, another on getting into snow camping more generally and our Wild Bunch picks out five of the best Main Range backcountry ski descents. And Winter in Oz doesn’t just mean snow, of course. It’s the perfect time to go chasing waterfalls in Far North Queensland, so local Madoc Sheehan gives us the lowdown on three awesome watery FNQ adventures.

There’s also an absolutely exquisite feature on sea kayaking at Ningaloo, a piece on walking in Ettrema Gorge which explores the pleasures of reconnecting with our outdoor mates, and our track notes take you up to northern NSW to the Washpool and Gibraltar Range National Parks.

We also look at what Oz can learn from US national parks, at who’s right and wrong when it comes to remembering what happened on an outdoor trip, and at the long-awaited establishment of NSW’s Great Koala National Park. And there are our regular columnists, Green Pages, gear reviews gallery images and more; it’s an incredible issue, one that we’re proud to have as our 200th, and is full of the best adventure writing and photography Australia has to offer. So don’t waste your time elsewhere on dud stories, crap writing, or internet slop. Subscribe to Wild now!

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