Every now and then we come across a piece of writing that expresses our own opinions so well, and does it much better than we could ourselves. So we’re doing something different for this post - we’re sharing our own brief thoughts on the subject and then pointing you to a post written by someone else.
Read More[GUEST POST] Training for rock climbing is de rigueur these days, but hanging on your fingertips from a 15mm edge seems too much like hard work to me. So, for all those with bigger imaginations than biceps, here are six quick fixes that’ll have you effortlessly dancing up extremes in no time.
Read MoreThis post was originally planned for International Women’s Day on 8th March, but life had other plans. Alice Kerr and Esther Foster are on our freelance team, Sue James is a member of our mentoring programme, and Lucy Pearson is also a mentee, and one of our successful Mountain Leader assessees.
Read More[GUEST POST] What is scrambling? For me, scrambling offers the perfect combination of continuous movement and unfettered climbing in a mountain environment. It is a very basic activity that offers adventure, physical activity and mental concentration. Lakeland pioneer, Harry Griffin, clearly identified with this, saying: “The Lake District teems with opportunities for modest adventure away from the track… those I have introduced to various unconventional scrambles and climbs have all become addicts”. Many of us have become addicts in Harry’s mould.
Read MoreAs part of the Mountain Leader award training and assessment we cover remote supervision and route planning, and look at lots of different ways that this can be done. I ask the candidates to consider this: what is the point of doing a route card? I think there are two crucial points when considering how to draw up a route card: it must be useful as a risk assessment document, and it has to make sense to the person who will be using it. The traditional route card with rows and columns doesn’t make sense to everyone, particularly to someone who struggles with numbers. So what should you include on a route card, and how should it be presented?
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