Hills of Hame: Outdoor leadership & training

19/11/2023

Hello Everyone, 2023 has been a year with a lot of subcontracting and employed work in the outdoors, stores and also in geodiversity. Hills of Hame is still going as a business and, as Xmas approaches, this seems a good time to remind people that I offer gift vouchers for hillwalks, navigation days and geology walks through the website. I can send physical vouchers if you'd like to be able to hand on something physical but the things can also be all online. Well, except for the walking.

29/06/2022

The scope of what I can offer direct through Hills of Hame, and as a freelancer to others, has changed this week. I am now a qualified Summer Mountain Leader and can take groups into the high mountains of the British Isles. Will be beginning the post-award consolidation and CPD with a trip to the Lake District next week.

15/03/2022

Hills of Hame, my outdoor company, has joined the WorkingTogether scheme (https://www.harveymaps.co.uk/acatalog/WorkingTogether.html) As I've done more and more training in the Scottish hills, and beyond, I've made use of their wide range of map products. A significant element of delivering courses and working towards my award has been working with a range of maps at different scales. Great example of mutual support between companies.

12/01/2022

Still got spaces available on Bronze and Silver Navigator Award courses in Edinburgh and the Pentland Hills in January and February.

16/11/2020

At a Cycling Scotland Cycle Tutor course this weekend with the fabulous . Got the next installment next weekend so in the meantime thinking about my own sessions and watching the Bikeability Level 2 videos

31/08/2020

Edgelands, where the wilderness and wild things are on the urban peripheries.

Edgelands are those places that are on the periphery of urban sites. The concept was wonderfully explored in a book of the same name by Paul Farley & Michael Symonns Roberts and has become a pe…

20/08/2020

Fossils a go-go

Earlier in the week I was out checking out another prospect for work, as expedition trips are few and far between just now, when I stumbled upon the stone cladding used on the Next Store. I don& #82…

11/08/2020

In the last decade, a number of organizations and campaigns (e.g. Stop the Bleed, citizenAID) have begun to promote the need to prevent people bleeding to death from severe external injuries that c…

25/05/2020

Waiting to be released back into the wild.

Although things have changed slightly in Scotland, with unlimited outdoor exercise, I’ve still been relying on a lot of home-based exercise to try to keep myself fit for getting back into the…

03/05/2020

Blog post about the soundscape changes I noticed while walking the dog.

Shadow the dog and I were out to the west of Liberton Brae this morning. As we threaded our way out through the converted farm building of Liberton Tower Mains and stopped to watch a hovering kestr…