Category: Lowland Leader
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Week 6: 100th Blog Post and Quality Lowland Day #7
Before I begin, a bit of a newsflash for you all: I’ve actually gone and booked onto a Lowland Leader training course! And I also just realised that this is my 100th blog! Should I mark the occasion in some way? If you are reading this, can I just say a massive and heartfelt ‘thank…
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A Career as a Mountain Leader: How do you navigate your options?
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. As promised in a previous blog about doing a year of career development, here is the first instalment. I have been a Careers Adviser for ten years. For the same amount of time, I have also been a Mountain Leader. The question I am focusing on is: how can you…
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Week 2: Lowland routes in focus – how do you best plan a walk for varied abilities?
Pushed for time? Check out my video at the bottom! Reading time: 15 mins. As I make progress through the Lowland Leader scheme, it strikes me that it makes a really good qualification to help you as a leader think carefully about the abilities of your group. Why is that? At first, I nearly dismissed…
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QLD#4: Ladybower, Derwent and Howden Reservoirs 25k
28th August 2023 For the first time, when planning this one, I actually had some doubts that I could complete the route and fulfil all of the aims/objectives I had set out for myself. This was because the route length is 25k, which would take a long time in itself, plus the aims that would…
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A Walk in West Yorkshire: 22km/7hrs
This lowland circuit starts in Mytholmroyd, Calderdale, and covers 22km through some of the finest parts of the Calder Valley. The YouTube video below highlights paths near Cragg Vale, former home of the infamous ‘Coiners’, Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Pecket Well, and finally Midgley before returning to the beginning. The Calder Valley is glacially formed, with…
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QLD#2: The Cleveland Way
A walk from Whitby to Robin Hood’s Bay and back again, via the Cleveland Way and the Cinder Track. I spent quite a long time looking at maps of the Cleveland Way while planning this one. In order for a day to qualify as a ‘Quality Day’ it has to be planned by the individual.…
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Guidebook Review: ’15 Short Walks in the Lake District’
Cicerone Press recently published this guidebook, focusing on 15 short walks in three of the most popular places in the Lake District. As someone who is keen on documenting how you can, from scratch, progress from enjoying small trails to big and challenging ones, I thought it would be a great idea to buy this…
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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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