Tag: outdoors
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Week 9: A Day with the Mountain Weather Information Service
I promised in my last post that I would be sharing my action plan with you. So what does MWIS have to do with my personal career plan? Before I get to the answer, let me give you a brief outline of my day with one of the meteorologists from the service at the start…
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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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So how easy is it to bivvy overnight in the mountains? And what kit do you need? Part 1.
Bivvying, short for ‘bivouacking’, is a bit of an art form. It’s a bit ‘niche’, one notch up from wild camping, and often seen as the emergency option if you’re caught out in a storm for the night. But is it really all that bad? Is it something to be endured, or can it also…
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