Outdoor brands are waking up to the fact plus-sized trampers need plus-sized gear. Photo: Marmot

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Struggling to find tramping gear in sizes bigger than large or extra-large? Retailers are fast waking up to an emerging gap in the market, with new gear proving you don’t have to change your body to enjoy the outdoors.

I’m guilty of writing about plus-sized tramping gear while being a very much non-plus-sized size 12. Sometimes a size 10, sometimes a size 14. I went through a phase in my 30s where I was ‘overweight’ by BMI standards when I woke up in the morning but, due to that day’s weight gain, I was […]
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Hazel Phillips

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Hazel Phillips

Hazel Phillips is an alpine adventurer and the author of Fire & Ice, Solo, and Great Hearts. A firm believer that ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’, she’s passionate about representation in the outdoors. She is a self-confessed Ruapehu addict, and she’s never met a topo map she didn’t get along with.

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