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West Yorkshire Walks #3
Apart from some of the wettest weather I’ve ever walked in, this Stoodley Pike/Mytholmroyd circular is a superb route! A hike up to the moor top to Dick’s Lane leads to the Pennine Way on Stoodley’s summit. A well marked trail guides you north to Hebden Bridge, one of the great industrial towns of the…
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West Yorkshire Walks #2
These are stills from the upcoming series – a selection of walks in each area of West Yorkshire. Whenever one of the videos is complete I’ll post a link on here to my YouTube channel 🙂
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West Yorkshire Walks
As part of a new project I’m working on, I did a hike last weekend just east of Halifax. It was fairly short, around 5 miles, and started in the small village of Southowram. I made a film of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBXYVSmYWpk which will eventually form part of a new guidebook! I’m pretty excited about this,…
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Hill and Moorland Leader #1
I’m not only at the start of a big project creating a video guidebook, but also beginning to cover the detailed outline of the Hill and Moorland scheme. This is a short blog post about a hill day I’ve just returned from, and a short video I made about my adventure. It’s the first video…
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Lowland Leader # 1
OK, I’ll get straight to it: why bother with the Lowland Leader award when you can go straight to Mountain Leader Summer? What’s the point? The Lowland Leader syllabus is so fundamental to everything else that it’s a naturally good place to begin. It’s a great entry point into outdoor leadership, although many people I’m…
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Let’s begin.
So here it is, my first blog entry for the site. It’s all based around gaining certain Mountain Training qualifications and passing that knowledge on to others for a living. It’s about getting back to nature, and spending quality time with other people outside. To do that, I’ll be blogging, podcasting and tweeting my way…
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