Four Days to Find Your Swim
The water is opening up. Where to go, how to get in and what to know before your first spring swim of the season.
Where Can I Go Wild Swimming?: Essential Guide for Swim
Where can you go wild swimming near you? How far will you have to travel to find water you are...
Wild Swimming Guide: everything you need to know
Wild swimming is one of our favourite ways to be brave, get in touch with nature and reset. If you...
In Pursuit of a Perfect Outdoor Swim
Alpkiteer Kate Rew is the Founder of The Outdoor Swimming Society and author of a new handbook that will help...
Outdoor Swimming Guide Book edited by Kathy Rogers
What you are about to read is an exclusive article from 'The Outdoor Swimming Guide Book' edited by Kathy Rogers...
10 Tips for Outdoor Swimming Safety
Outdoor swimming is more popular than ever these days! More and more of us are re-discovering the child-like joy of...
How To Get Into Cold Water: Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Cold water - how do you get in? Why do you do it? Is there any way to make it...
Wetsuit and Kit Guide
The right wetsuit changes everything. From fit and fabric to Yulex alternatives, here's how to gear up for the open water season.
Outdoor Swimming Wetsuits That Perform
We've been swimming in the outdoors since before we can remember. We delight in a dip when hiking in the...
Why You Need a Wetsuit Designed for Swimming
We’ve two new outdoor swimming wetsuits on the way to compliment the existing Loticwetsuit. First up is the Terrapin which...
How to Put On a Wetsuit for Outdoor Swimming
Swim longer. Swim in colder waters. Swim faster. What do you need? The right wetsuit. Our wetsuit range is designed...
What you should wear when open water swimming
As wild swimmers, we know that feeling of diving into refreshingly cool waters on a warm summer day. As the...
Care Guide: How To Look After Your Swimming Wetsuit
The better you look after your wetsuit, the longer and happier a life it will lead. Here’s how to keep...
The Story Behind Yulex, Tarka and Straven Swimsuits
There’s a moment, standing at the edge of a cold-water tarn or winding river, when everything else fades away. No...
Rivers, Tarns and Coastal Spots
Four days of open water. The best spots for an Easter swim, from Highland lochs to Anglesey coastline and mountain tarns.
Go Wild Swimming and the Kinder Trespass
Alpkiteer and founder of The Outdoor Swimming Society, Kate Rew, tells us about the recent trespass swim in Kinder Reservoir....
Wild Waters by Susanne Masters
You're reading an extract from Wild Waters by Susanne Masters. "Life isn’t spread homogenously across our planet. Even within the...
Iconic wild swims
Author of Swimming Wild in the Lake District Suzanna Cruickshank shares her favourite iconic swimming locations. The mere use of...
The Highlands
'So what is it we’re actually doing?’ I asked. Our week to the Highlands was getting close and thoughts were...
Wild Swimming with sea monsters
We were a very mixed group, some of us had done it before, some of us claimed to have made...
Wild swimming in mountain lakes and tarns
Are you ready to add a splash of adventure to your outdoor activities? If you’re captivated by the charm of...
Big Goals, Big Water
From the Irish Sea to the world's largest whirlpool. Open water endurance swimming at its most ambitious, for those setting big targets this spring.
Project Big Swim
There's no point in hiding what #ProjectBigSwim is, so I'll tell you the tale of how the idea came about....
35 minutes swimming in the Irish Sea
35 minutes in the Irish Sea, water 8°C, air the same. Nice and cosy in my new Silvertip, astonished at...
Lindsey Cole's 2019 Dart 10k outdoor swim
There wasn’t a soul in the high street as I strolled through Totnes under the soft pink hues of the...
Lampay Island Circumnavigation
25 swimmers of mixed abilty, but of equal adventureousness, made a journey to the Isle of Skye for one of...
The Wild Swimming Brothers plan to swim the biggest whirlpool in the world
Calum Hudson of the Wild Swimming Brothers takes up the story. "Fear has a way of sharpening the senses and...
Swimming the worlds two largest whirlpools
The Moskstraumen Maelstrom, steeped in folklore and mentioned by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville and Jules Verne. is it really...
Stories from the Community
Cold water obsessives, local river pools and Finnish winter championships. Six stories from people who swim outside.
Cold Water Music
Making it through the winter as a swimmer is always a challenge. Every year, I romanticise it—imagining cold, frosty mornings,...
Cold Water Surf and swim
Surfing is a sport I am absolutely useless at, but I love it. Watching it, photographing it, going on trips...
It's a Zing thing
Why? Because the satisfaction of those cosy clothes, the hot water bottle, cupping a warm mug, eating that cake are...
Finnish Winter Swimming Championships
Vivienne Rickman-Poole was invited to exhibt and speak at the 2016 Finnish Winter Swimming Championships held atLake Lohja (Lohjanjärvi) which...
Whitby cold water Christmas dip
A Treasured Outdoor Moment - Nina Carter-Brown. This year I spent Christmas in Whitby on the North Yorkshire coast! I...
Swimming 5 Lakes: An Everyday Adventure
Adventures are always more rewarding in winter. It’s so much harder to get motivated to do pretty much anything when...