Tag: nature
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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 7: No Such Thing as Bad Weather…Except Really Bad Weather!
As regular readers will know, I check the weather forecast on a Thursday evening to see what my weekend might look like. Sometimes it’s time to plan a sunrise shoot, sometimes it’s a walk for one of my guidebook projects. Other times it’s a Quality Day for one of the various awards I’m working towards.…
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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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When do you turn back in the mountains? Helvellyn – The summit is optional.
We’ve all been there. You’ve worked hard to get the time off work, driven for hours, carefully prepared and packed all of your kit and are mega psyched to summit the Big One in the Lakes – Helvellyn. Except, the weather forecast isn’t great, it’s blowing a gale, feeling pretty grim. Should you just battle…
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