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Have a look into our past here you will find what we have been up to and be able to see some of our thoughts and re posts of interest.

MIA Trainee Workshop - Navigation

POSTED: 31st July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Qualifications

This weekend I am running an Mountaineering Instructors Award workshop for the Association of Mountaineering Instructors, navigation & environment was the topic for today. Most of the lads on the course had popped down from Scotland and none of them had spent much time in the Lakes so we headed over the the Coppermines and spent the day quest from ring contour to re...

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Blizzard Survival Gear Review for AMI News

POSTED: 30th July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Gear Reviews

Blizzard, from Bethesda, North Wales, produce a wide range of lightweight thermal protection for survival and emergency situations. Used extensively by the US/UK militaries as well as UK Mountain Rescue and Search and Rescue teams, the Plas y Brenin instructors are recommending the Blizzard gear as part of your standard kit to carry. Over the past 2 months I have been...

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Mountain Leader Re-Assessment

POSTED: 30th July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Qualifications

Tonight was a Summer ML Re-Assessment, John had put in a huge amount of effort since his deferral earlier this year and displayed a really strong demonstration of navigational skill.

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Climbing with Graham

POSTED: 29th July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Family & Group Adventures

A Family where staying in the Yurts at Rhydal Hall, Ben at the yurts popped them in touch with us here are Real Adventure because they where wanting to do some climbing whilst they where here. The boys had been to a climbing wall a few times but had never been out on real rock.

Graham took them up Borrowdale and they had a great time learning the basics of outdoor...

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Just finished with a school programme!

POSTED: 29th July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Real Adventure has just finished delivering a great schools programme, here is what the teachers said:
“Thanks to all the team who made our residential such a memorable experience. We had a fantastic time and enjoyed all the actvities. It was great fun to see the teachers joining in with us. Thanks to Mark for the experience of eating bananas wrapped in bacon and the...

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Mining Trip

POSTED: 28th July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Staff @ Play, Winter Conditions

Well after a long day in the office with Simon Fenna working on the report-ability of m office database, John Riley of Fired Up Design working on the new RA website and myself working on the content of the new site and future programs we all got a little itchy and needed to go do something.Simon’s Mate is one of the local mining experts, she popped a black bag over our...

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New Website & Blog

POSTED: 28th July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Staff @ Play

The Real Adventure web site is being re developed as I sit here typing this post. The Old site is now 5 years old and with new developments in web site design and back end usability it was time to move forwards.Real Adventure has also developed as a company over the years and the range of what we can offer increased significantly. The company has been a great journey for...

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Family rock climbing taster day

POSTED: 25th July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Family & Group Adventures

Today Margret and her 2 kids came over to the Lakes to try there hand at climbing outside & see if it where something they would like to get into. Both Amy and James and their mum had been down to their local climbing wall a few times and really enjoyed it and where just curious to see what it was like outside. We headed to Borrowdale, One of the best places in the...

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Learn to Climb - Day 2

POSTED: 23rd July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Technical Courses

We headed over to the Limestone at a place I first stepped foot on a crag when I was 12, Hutton Roof. Sarah was still on the way to being 100% over her fear of “the edge” and heights so this venue with more careful coaching allowed gave her the head space to take onboard the technical aspects.After a number of routes Sarah and Michael’s brains where full so we...

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Learn to Climb - Day 1

POSTED: 22nd July 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Technical Courses

Sarah and Michael arrived from Colchester on Thursday night and stayed in Ambleside. Michael runs a private medical practice, we spent most of our time chatting about business and databases, I popped them in touch with my database engineer and anorak Simon Fenna.The first day we headed to Middle Fell Buttress in Langdale and looked at multi pitch climbing & abseiling,...

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