Category: Teaching Days
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City to Summit # 2: How to Plan a Walk
The second episode in this series focuses on planning and preparing for a walk. Let’s take a look at the following topics: 1 – The weather forecast 2 – Online mapping and route plotting 3 – What to pack 4 – Tips for the trail For the weather forecast, I use the Met Office which…
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Guiding the Yorkshire Three Peaks
It’s fairly inevitable at some point that if you’re a Mountain Leader based in Yorkshire you’re going to lead a group on the challenge route called The Three Peaks. This is a good example of a regularly advertised freelance job sometimes seen on Facebook, where companies offer very high rates of pay for what is…