Walking and mountain leaders enjoy opportunities to lead groups within outdoor areas of great landscape beauty,
natural and cultural heritage importance. Leaders need to be able to interpret the interest of these valuable
landscapes to their groups, both to enrich their enjoyment and to encourage responsible use of these often fragile
environments.
This is one of a series of three workshops, and has been developed to help lowland, hill and mountain leaders expand their
environmental knowledge and consolidate their environmental interpretation skills. These outdoor workshops
that take place within the White Peak, Dark Peak, and Lakeland.
Through a combination of direct instruction from qualified and experienced tutors and group discussion the
workshop will cover a wide range of environmental topics and issues of relevance to lowland, hill and mountain
leaders. At the end of the workshops participants will:

• Be able to confidently identify characteristic plant species of British upland calcareous
  grassland, ancient semi-natural Ash woodland, heathland and heather moorland
  vegetation;
• Gain an understanding of the main ecological characteristics of Britain’s farmed landscapes
  and of heathland, heather moorlands and upland landscapes;
• Develop a wide understanding of key environmental conservation and land use issues
  within Britain’s lowland and upland landscapes;
• Acquire a working knowledge of key recreational management issues in Britain’s
  undeveloped and upland landscapes;
• Gain experience of group management strategies that help to enable effective
  interpretation of environmental information.

For both workshops you should come equipped for a day on the hill, with adequate food and drink. The proposed
itinerary on both dates will mainly use existing paths and involves no strenuous walking. Some information will be
provided on the day, but a notebook and camera would be useful. The workshops start at locations with toilet
facilities.

Start

13/07/2019 09:00

End

13/07/2019 17:30

Total Days

1

Maximum Bookings

12

Bookings

10

Venue

Black Rocks (Grid ref: SK 29135 55724)

Town

Cromford

County

Derbyshire

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.10000

Longitude

-1.57000

Name

Mountain Training Association

Phone

07856 718082

Email