Häftad, Engelska, 2024
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2020
236 kr
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Nature of Snowdonia is the essential guide for hillwalkers and climbers who want to truly understand the landscape, wildlife, and natural history of one of Britain’s most spectacular mountain regions. Fully revised and expanded in this 2nd Edition, it’s the first complete field guide to the mountains of Snowdonia — through every season of the year.Follow the changing seasons of Snowdonia as the book reveals how life in the uplands transforms month by month:Winter: Study fascinating rocks, lichens, and geological features.Spring: See bog flowers and beautiful orchids come into bloom.Summer: Enjoy fruits, flowers, and trees in full leaf.Autumn: Discover amazing fungi, busy hill farms, and tales of local myth and legend.From fossil trilobites and roche moutonnée (rock sheep) to bogbean beer and caterpillar fungus, every page uncovers the incredible stories of Snowdonia’s uplands. With stunning photography, scientific insight, and local wisdom, this is a book to carry with you on every mountain journey.Nature of Snowdonia will change the way you see the hills — adding depth, wonder, and knowledge to every walk or climb. - Häftad, Engelska, 2023
261 kr
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The Mountain Leader by Mike Raine explores what it truly means to lead in the British hills and mountains. Far more than a manual of map reading and ropework, this book focuses on the human, environmental and leadership aspects that make an exceptional Mountain Leader.Being a Mountain Leader is about inspiring confidence, making good decisions, and creating rewarding days in the hills. Written by an experienced instructor and assessor, this essential guide helps qualified leaders, trainees, and trainers develop beyond the technical syllabus.Inside you’ll find:Practical advice on how to lead effectively after qualificationGuidance for trainees, trainers, assessors and experienced leadersInsights into judgement, decision-making, and group managementTips for personal development and maintaining high professional standardsApplicable content for Hill and Moorland Leaders and Lowland Leaders tooWhy this book matters:Moves beyond the “how-to” of technical skillsFocuses on what it means to be a real leader in the mountainsDraws on decades of first-hand experience and Mountain Training expertiseWhether you’re newly qualified, in training, or delivering courses, The Mountain Leader provides the insight, reflection and professional wisdom you need to lead with confidence and care. - Häftad, Engelska, 2026
175 kr
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Follow Mike's journey into bikepacking,blending hard-won lessons with practical advice. Along the way, he sharesstories from some of the UK's most iconic routes, including the Highland Trail550, the Trans Cambrian and the Lakeland 300. At its heart lies his CylchdaithCymru (Welsh 550) ride around his adopted home of Wales. A naturalist, mountaineer and educator, Mikeweaves observations on landscape, land management and nature throughout hisjourney. Grinding up hills on a laden bike, he develops an intimaterelationship with one of our last overlooked wild spaces, the roadside verge,capturing it in evocative detail.On Mike's Welsh 550 route he gives us abike-borne view of Wales: from the limestone-built Victorian resort ofLlandudno beneath the Great Orme, to the wild Worm's Head at the tip of theGower, just beyond Wales's second city, Swansea - and back again. The routeheads south down the west side of Walesbefore returning up the eastern side, taking in encounters with of slatequarrying, coal mining, forestry and agriculture.In the quiet expanses of central Wales, whereservices are few and far between, chance encounters become meaningful. Mikemeets few people, but each has a story to tell. This is a bikepackingtravelogue for our times.The book includes sketch maps, routesummaries, reflections on lessons learned, pen-and-ink illustrations, and anindex. - Nyhet
Häftad, Engelska, 2026186 kr
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This is an End to End story without going to either Land's End or John O'Groats. It also begins in the middle, in north Wales. From Eryri (Snowdonia) Mike rides to Cape Wrath, the wild, wind-scoured headland at the end of north-western Britain, comes home, then travels south to Lizard Point in Cornwall and rides back home to Eryri, this time accompanied by his best friend, his wife Sally. Together they complete a journey that is less about conquering distance and more about inhabiting it.Ridden as off-road as possible, this is a bikepacking adventure shaped less by haste and more by curiosity, fatigue and a healthy dislike of busy roads.Self-described as 'not a very good bike rider,' and cheerfully ill-equipped for mechanical drama, the author sets out at 63 (and returns at 64) to pedal the length of the country.There are no near-death epiphanies or soul-searching transformations. This is not a journey from darkness into light. It is something rarer: a joyful, eco-conscious exploration of Britain's tracks, trails, moors and mountains. It is about tired legs, slow climbs, cafes frequented, rural observations, small laments, shared laughter, and the quiet satisfaction of forward motion.End to End: Lizard Point to Cape Wrath is a gently humorous, keenly observed travelogue of an off-road Britain - stitched together by nights under canvas and in hotels, by dehydrated food and pub grub, by singletracks, double tracks and fallen trees. It is about the simple pleasure of a 'nice bike ride' that just happens to run the length of a country.
