Tag: hiking
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Six Questions for Success Part 6/6: The Last Question
I recently celebrated my 38th birthday. A couple of days beforehand, I had one evening where for around two hours I had a crushing low mood and a sense that I was rapidly getting old with not that much to show for it. The feeling was triggered by a song that I heard that reminded…
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Six Questions for Success: Part 1/6 – Develop, manage and deliver on your goals.
The above picture is one of the most dangerous sections of inland river in the United Kingdom. I took a group there recently. The water is 30 feet deep (yes, you read that correctly) and the rocks look tantalisingly close to just hop across. Many have tried and failed to do that. If you want…
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Week 28: Brighouse to Berry Brow
As Spring has most definitely arrived, I have been out adding some more days to my mountain training logbook and trying to learn some new flora. I used to carry a variety of plant ID books round with me but this week trialled something different – Google Lens. While this only really works when it’s…
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Week 23: The First Ascent of the North Face of the Eiger
This week, I would like to take an extreme example of adventure and focus on my next word in the A-Z of personal development – ‘belay‘. You might wonder why I have chosen such an obscure word. Please bear with me! What does the word mean in my Collins dictionary? ”to fix a rope around…
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Week 19: Why Plan B is the key to success.
This post introduces a slight, but very important, change in trajectory for this weekly series. I am going to take you through the theory and advice on creating, setting, and achieving your goals. Whatever they might be. I’m going to take ten years of guidance and reflecting on my job, on what has worked and…
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Week 8, Month 2: Why bother with a career plan? Six questions to try and answer as a Mountain Leader
It might feel a bit pointless to plan your future. I mean, nobody knows what will happen for sure and we all change in unexpected ways. Some of those changes are good, some bad. And surely the careers plan for a Mountain Leader is just ‘go out and hike up mountains’, right?! This is a…
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Week 3: Busy work life? Here are ten questions I ask myself before I head outdoors.
If you work a 40 hour week in an office, how can you best prepare for a weekend outside? And does that preparation actually make a difference? Here are ten questions I ask myself before heading out. They help guide me towards an objective and minimise missing out on crucial outdoor time. I’m using pictures…
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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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Week 1: Navigation Training, Sunrise Hikes and how NOT to photograph the Northern Lights…
See that above? Not bad for a hand-held effort. Just ignore all the blurred streetlights in the bottom right corner. Basically I was just really lazy and couldn’t be bothered to get my tripod. No other excuse. It’s been an adventurous first week into my challenge, so here’s a brief run through of what I’ve…
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