About
About Leader's landscape training:
Landscape is our support system without which we could not exist.
Everyone depends on landscape for food, water, fuel and clean air.
A beautiful and diverse landscape with a wealth of wildlife and human history inspires and enriches our lives and provides a ‘natural health service’ for mind and body. But our fragile landscapes are under threat as never before, not least from climate change, and our challenge is to understand, support and enhance them.
Leader’s Landscape Training is aimed at outdoor practitioners to help deepen your understanding of Cumbria’s landscapes and enable you to pass on your new-found knowledge to those with whom you work.
Workshop detail:
Session content: The course will look at the hard rock geology of Borrowdale and the story of its formation. It is the story of volcanoes, islands arcs, plate tectonics and earthquakes. Some context will be given so that the story can be appreciated as part of a longer history of the Lake District’s evolution.
Alongside the hard rock story, the course will look at the reasons behind the current shape of the landscape. This is the much more recent story of the Ice age shaping the volcanic rocks into the crags, fells and valleys we see today and for which the Lake District is justly famous.
Learning outcomes:
1. A broad knowledge of the hard rock types of Borrowdale.
2. Some understanding of the geological processes that took place resulting in the formation of these rocks using the geological principle that the “present day is the key to the past.”
3. An understanding of the current landscape will through careful, structured teaching of Ice age processes using local landforms to demonstrate these processes.
4. Participants should gain basic interpretive skills which will enable you to see the landscape with informed eyes and apply these skills elsewhere in the Lake District.
Participants will be encouraged to explore and develop their understanding through direct and immediate contact with the environment. ie, get your hands dirty!
A day course booklet will be provided, with base maps and routes.
A contextual booklet will be provided given background information and a glossary of terms at the end of the session.
Leaders: Stephen Mott (See full biography below)
Organiser: Kay Andrews, Friends of the Lake District
Location: Borrowdale
Meet location: Seatoller - National Trust Car Park CA12 5XN
Parking: See above NT CARPARK: cash only £8.50 OR NT members free with membership card.
Start & finish time: 10am – 3:15pm
Walk grade: Moderate. 5 miles approx.
Please bring:
Field Work Equipment Check List
• Food and drink.
• Field Note book (or electronic notepad if you must!!)
• 3/4 Pencils needed! (Suggest 2B) (biros don’t always work in the rain)
• Selection of coloured pencils (optional)
• OS maps- English Lakes OL4
• Camera + spare batteries
• GPS (optional)
• Waterproof walking boots (There are some wet sections)
• Waterproofs
• Insulated seat/pad to sit on
• Midge repellent!
For Geological fieldwork, optional - you may wish to bring any of these, though some will be provided to share:
• Geol Survey map - Sheet 29 and 38
• Handlens
• Compass/clinometer
• Hard hat
(Please note there is no indoor backup venue so the walk will go ahead in poor weather unless unreasonable or unsafe to do so)
Stephen Mott has been involved in teaching and education advisory work for over 30 years. He graduated from Durham University (Hatfield College) with a degree in geological sciences and the Main Prize for fieldwork in 1979. For some years, he taught the subject and physical geography to A level. He has continued to keep up-to-date with advances in earth sciences and has regularly led geology and wildlife walks over the years. He has taught two successful courses for the Cumbria CC Adult-education department at Shap CDC on Rocks and landscapes of Eastern Cumbria.
Leader Landscape Training Sessions are accredited by Mountain Training Association and are recognised as Continuous Professional Development for members.
Where And When
- Start
- 06/07/2023 10:00
- End
- 06/07/2023 15:15
- Total Days
- 1
- Maximum Bookings
- 10
- Bookings
- 5
- Venue
- National Trust Car Park- Seatoller
- Town
- Seatoller, Borrowdale
- County
- Cumbria
- Postcode
- CA12 5XN
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Latitude
- 54.51360
- Longitude
- -3.16818
CPD Points
Provider
- Name
- Mountain Training Association
- Phone
- 01539 720788
- Website
- Booking/Details
