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 bridge. Cross the bridge and turn right… But when I picked up the Sheffield Round Walk Guidebook, I accidentally read the whole thing from cover…
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 as instructors and guides there needs to be more women climbing, mountaineering and hillwalking full stop. So, to play our own small role in forging…
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 of Sheffield, Redmires Reservoirs were built between 1833 – 1854 to provide clean drinking water for the ever-growing Sheffield population. Despite their clashing, crashing industrial…
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 will be sharing his experience documenting people and places around the world from Indian Creek to Everest Base Camp and Hindu Holy Men. If you’re…
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 short answer is maybe! A knife is a tool like any other item of outdoor equipment and you need to have a think about what…
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 night navigation, read Chris’ blog on Top Tips for Night Navigation). I left my Hill and Moorland Leader training brimming with excitement about almost…
AeroPress Go Review I like a cup of coffee in the morning. Just one but I do like it to be good fresh real coffee. I’ll make it at home usually on a Hario V60 filter cone or buy it in some lovely cafe ideally sitting with a friend. However when I’m away overnight, working…
We are delighted to have had our Peak District Environmental Quality Mark renewed for another two years. The audit is a rigorous process examining all aspects of what we do. Whilst there is always room for improvement the recognition that we are class leaders and care passionately about the environment both locally and globally is…
Hati on walking the Sheffield Round Walk
Below are my favourite top ten travel, nature and adventure books from the last 11 months of lockdown. I read a lot anyway but the lockdowns have enabled me to fully indulge myself and revisit some favourite books and find some new and delightfully inspiring reads. All of them have had me itching to get…
These days the only navigational decisions I make are in my local supermarket and the only time I’ve found myself at altitude has been on a stepladder in my attic (dizzying!). How do you consolidate for a Mountain Training assessment under these conditions? Whilst there’s no substitute for immersing yourself in your activity when preparing…
How are you staying connected with nature and the outdoors during the lockdown? It takes me 10 minutes to walk to the supermarket. Usually I’d plug into a podcast: it’s an unrewarding traipse down litter-lined main roads which inspires in me nothing but a hankering for expansive moorland , tumbling gritstone edges and squelching beneath…