Every now and then magazines from the outdoor industry (Trail, Country Walking, Trek and Mountain, Outdoor Enthusiast, The Professional Mountaineer plus more …) ask us for our thoughts, advice, top tips or for written articles based on our insider knowledge and hard-earned experience. And sometimes we just fancy sharing our pearls of wisdom – so here they are.
Hill Skills
- Ten ways to be better at map reading
- 10 Ways to Be Better at Map Reading for Mountain Bikers
- Map and Compass beats a GPS Device Every Time. Here’s Why
- Training for challenge walks – guide to get fit
- Hill and Mountain Weather Advice
- Wild camping
- Hill Walking Made Easy(ier)
- Top Tips For Footcare
- Top Tips to Get Your Children Walking
- Family Friendly Adventure Walks With Children
Scrambling
- A Beginner’s Guide to Scrambling
- What is scrambling?
- Five Grade 1 Scrambles to Get You Started
- Scrambling With Children
- Five FAB Recommended Scrambles For Children
Mountain Training Awards / NGBs
- Five Top Tips to Help You Pass ML Assessment
- Five Top Tips to Help You Pass RCI Assessment
- Rock Climbing Skills – Rigging Climbs
- Free navigation training resources for Mountain Professionals
- Top Tips to Getting Work as a Freelance Outdoor Leader
- Grade 1 Scrambles for Aspirant Mountain Leaders
Fear of Heights
- Understanding your fear of heights
- A Fear of Heights: We’re All on the Same Journey
- Helping clients who have a fear of heights
- Acrophobia & how we help people cure a fear of heights
Outdoor Kit / Equipment
Outdoor & Expedition First Aid
- Recommended first aid kit for working & playing in the outdoors
- Outdoor First Aid – Five items of essential first aid kit for the outdoors
- What to do in an Emergency Outdoors
- One Item Of First Aid Kit: Always Needed: The Least Appreciated
- First Aid Kit for Overseas Treks
- Dealing With Mass Casualties – Triage First Aid
- Save a Life With a Slice of Flapjack – Diabetes
- Outdoor First Aid – Giant Hogweed
- Expedition First Aid – Diarrhoeal illness
- Expedition First Aid – Five things to look for in a local hospital
- Expedition and outdoor first aid – heat exhaustion
- Expedition First Aid – Hyponatraemia
- Air Rescue Capabilities in the UK
Great Peak District Walks
Self-guided walks that we consider to be amongst some of the best in the area.
Essential Trek Skills
The Welsh 3000s Challenge
Miscellaneous articles
- Act Now: Seize the Day
- Underestimating My Daughter
- Ten Top Tips For Taking Better Photographs
- Ten Top Must Haves For The Outdoors
- The Tongue In Cheek History Of The Peak District
- Fifty Mile Walk: It’s no Mean Feet
- Phill Skills – recipes from the W4A kitchen for the hills
- Tips and Advice: How to Get Your Kids Climbing