Mountain Leader | 26/09/2014 | ||
Hill and Moorland Leader | 27/03/2014 | ||
Walking Group Leader Award | 05/10/2011 |
MTA webinar: Identification of vascular plants, mosses, liverworts and lichens (Part 2) | 06/08/2020 | 0.25 | |
MTA webinar: Ecological adaptations in arctic and alpine plant species within British mountain vegetation | 18/06/2020 | 0.25 | |
MTA webinar: History of vegetation in hills and mountains since the last glaciation | 11/06/2020 | 0.25 | |
MTA webinar: Ecology for leaders series (Part 4) - Sources of information to help plan your day on the hill | 04/06/2020 | 0.25 | |
Trees in Britain (online event) | 04/06/2020 | 0.25 |
When I turned 50 I decided that I should really learn to navigate so that I could enjoy the hills in a safer way. My dad and school had taught me to map read when I was a teenager but I knew I was rusty and that there was a bit more that I needed to know about the arcane pleasures of contours!
I started off by doing the Walking Group Leader (WGL) Award, now called Hill and Moorland Leader (HML) Award with a view to seeing how it went first before deciding if I wanted to take things further. I really enjoyed the training, consolidation and the assessment so that decided it for me.
I enrolled on the ML and it took me about 2 years to achieve it what with working full time and part time and not living very near to actual mountains, although the Pennines is a pretty good training ground.
My friend and I ran a small business teaching navigation skills under the NNAS registration for several years. I still do this occasionally now that I am retired from full time work.