How to Clean your Cams for Rock Climbing
In preparation for the climbing season ahead, Hati talks us through how to clean your cams for rock climbing.
Pumped out of your mind, slightly regretting your choice of warmup and …
Post Lockdown RCI Consolidation: Get Back into the Swing of Things
Having completed her RCI assessment just after lockdown no. 1, Hati shares her tips for blowing away the cobwebs and getting back into the habit of consolidation.
Is this how …
Victoria Writes About Walking While Pregnant
There’s nothing like a surprise blessing of a pregnancy to stop you in your tracks and make you look at the world around you. This was particularly strange during 2020 …
Alpkit Womens Bloc pants review: really good bouldering pants that don’t look like bouldering pants.
Pockets! Spacious flat front pockets where you can put your hand, your phone, your wallet, your notebook! And on the women’s version!? Already the Alpkit Womens Bloc bouldering pants are …
Book Review: Sheffield Round Walk by Jon Barton – a 24km Scenic City Walk
When you pick up a walking route card or guidebook, you expect to read line after line of dry directions. Turn left at the stile then descend down to a …
Women’s Only Courses
In 2021 International Women’s Day asked us to #choosetochallenge.
Here in the outdoor industry there is a gender gap. For there to be more women working in the outdoors and …
The Redmires Round: a 5 Mile Walking Route on the Outskirts of Sheffield
On this Sheffield walk Hati takes us on a 5 mile loop from Redmires Reservoirs to Stanage Edge. Walk or run this route at your leisure!
Up on the outskirts …
Behind the Camera #1 Photographing Belly Full of Bad Berries
In over 20 years of adventure photojournalism, Alex has accumulated a wealth of experience and a fair few stories from behind the camera. In this series of blog posts, Alex …
How to Choose a Knife for Walking, Climbing, Mountaineering and Expeditions.
On every Rock Climbing Instructor or Lowland, Hill and Moorland or Mountain Leader course at some point someone will ask the perfectly reasonable question ‘should I carry a knife?’ The …
Solo Night Nav as a Woman: How to Ease Anxieties and Feel Safe when Practising Night Navigation
Do you enjoy or endure night navigation? Hati shares how she built her confidence and discovered the freedom of going solo on the moors by night.
(For more general advice on …