Mark Reid FRGS

Out around Hawnby, North York Moors today working with Pro-Development to help deliver the first part of their Remarkable Leadership Programme.

What better place is there than the outdoors for learning, reflection, discussions and thought?

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Yorkshire Dales Backpacking Weekend
8th & 9th November 2025
Malham to Kettlewell

Join me for an amazing adventure backpacking over beautiful fells and amazing limestone ravines.

Full camping kit provided (except sleeping bag).

📸 photos from 2024 trip

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Day two of my NNAS Bronze navigation skills course in Swaledale.

A beautifully blustery autumn day 🍁🍂🤩

A day of practice and consolidation, with adaptive and dynamic route choice and good decision making.

My 2026 NNAS dates are now online.

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Day 1 of my NNAS Bronze navigation skills course in Swaledale.

A great day learning the foundational skills of good navigation. Fully engaged with our surroundings, visualising the route ahead, building confidence… it’s empowering!

2026 NNAS dates now online.
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Lake District Walking Weekend based at Coniston.

A wonderful weekend with 30 people and a choice of three walks.

A bit of a damp day…💧💨 so not many photos.

A lovely low level route around Hodge Close, Tilberthwaite, Little Langdale and Cathedral Quarries.
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Thank you. The Lake District is wonderful especially in autumn

Lake District Walking Weekend based at Coniston.

A wonderful weekend with 30 people and a choice of 3 walks.

I took the lower level route around Tarn Hows, Black Crag & Hodge Close, where the intermediate group split off to take in Holme Fell.

The adventurous route headed up Wetherlam.

Day 2 of my Mountain Skills course at Coniston.

A grand day up onto Swirl How and Great Carrs, with beautiful light.

A day of strategies, decision making, steep ground, route choice, timings, compass work and lots of contours.

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Day 1 of my Mountain Skills course at Coniston.

We covered route planning, decision making, essential kit, weather, navigation skills, contour interpretation & distance, plus dealing with steep ground, ‘off piste’ navigation and lots more!

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Bow Fell via the Climbers’ Traverse & Crinkle Crags.

Crinkle Crags is good fun in mist - every time I go up there I bump into ‘navigationally challenged’ people. My advice - take a map & compass, learn how to use them and don’t passively follow a phone.

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Join me for an adventure weekend to remember in beautiful Great Langdale.

Choice of mountain walks too…

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Join me on an adventurous 2 day expedition up on the Lakeland fells and mountains this November!

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Join me for a weekend to remember!

Backpacking between Malham and Kettlewell through some of the Yorkshire Dales’ most epic landscapes then camp overnight at Kettlewell.

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Out on my Howgill Fells 2000s Challenge Walk yesterday.

All 9 summits over 2,000-ft.

Great Dummacks – 663m
Calders – 674m
Bram Rigg Top – 672m
The Calf – 676m
White Fell – 640m
Bush Howe – 623m
Fell Head – 640m
Randygill Top – 624m
Yarlside – 639m

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Out on my Cognitive Navigation course today around Austwick, Norber & Crummackdale.

Fully engaged £ immersed with our surroundings, building mental maps, firing up our place & grid cells… cognitive ‘active’ navigation is a fundamental part of being outdoors.

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Want to learn some proper skills?

Join me on the 23rd & 24th October at Coniston in the Lake District for 2 days of mountain inspiration!

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Out on my 1-day Map Reading course today around Swaledale.

This course brings maps & the landscape alive… whether you use a ‘traditional’ map or a mobile phone app, the key to good navigation is interpretation of maps & decision making

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Out on my ‘Geography of the North York Moors’ walk today around Danby, Esk Dale, Fryup Dale and Danby Rigg.

There’s so much to see from Danish place names & a medieval packhorse bridge to holloways, glacial lakes, Liassic shales, Ravenscar sandstones & the Bronze Age remains on Danby Rigg.

Day 14 (& final) of our Coast to Coast.

Grosmont to Robin Hood’s Bay.

It was a pleasure & privilege to guide this wonderful group of 10 people, and share my knowledge & passion of the North of England with them.

Congratulations on their amazing achievement.

Day Thirteen of our Coast to Coast.

Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge to Grosmont.

Moorland crosses and standing stones, Great Fryup Dale, ancient roads and paved trods, a romantic bridge and steam trains at Grosmont.

This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Day 12 of our Coast to Coast.

Osmotherley to the Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge

20 miles across the Cleveland Hill, Urra Moor & Farndale Moor, via the North York Moors highest point at Round Hill (454m).

A superb day’s hillwalking.

This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Coming up this autumn...

15th October - Reeth, Swaledale
12th November - Grassington, Wharfedale
3rd December - Aysgarth Falls, Wensleydale

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Day Eleven of our Coast to Coast.

Danby Wiske to Osmotherley

More tracks and field edges across the Vale of Mowbray and then the infamous A19 crossing… beyond which we entered the North York Moors.

This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Day Ten of our Coast to Coast.

Richmond to Danby Wiske

Today we left the Yorkshire Dales behind, crossed the A1 and headed across the Vale of Mowbray.

We visited the grave of Henry Jenkins who lived to 169! He put his longevity down to eating raw onions & swimming in the Swale daily.

COMING UP...

14 Oct: Geography of the North York Moors
15 Oct: Map Reading course, Yorkshire Dales
16 Oct: Cognitive Navigation, Yorkshire Dales
17 Oct: Howgill Fells 2000s Challenge
22 Oct: Bowfell & Crinkle Crags
23 & 24 Oct: Mountain Skills, Lake District

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Day Nine of our Coast to Coast.

CB Inn to Richmond

Another beautifully breezy autumn day.

Up over Fremington Edge to the lead mines of Hurst, then along the rim of the deep trough of Marske Beck to Marske, then through the Applegarths to Richmond. A superb route.

Day Eight of our Coast to Coast.

Keld to the CB Inn, Arkengarthdale

At last, a beautifully breezy autumn day. Oh, the joy of walking across the Yorkshire moors; the far-reaching views, deep ravines and abandoned lead mines.

Day 7 of our Coast to Coast

Kirkby Stephen to Keld

The winds from Storm Amy were forecast to be 50+ mph on Nine Standards so we went via Nateby then up over the road across Tailbridge and down into lovely Birkdale and Swaledale.

This is now my 9th C2C and I’m guiding the route for C2C Packhorse.

Day Six of our Coast to Coast.

Shap to Kirkby Stephen

Storm Amy arrived earlier than forecast. After Orton, conditions deteriorated to heavy rain & strong winds so we dropped down from Ravenstonedale Moor to join the old railway line at Brownber then followed this into Kirkby Stephen.

Day Five of our Coast to Coast. Patterdale to Shap

The forecast was for gusts of 32mph on High Raise but the wind was knocking us sideways on Satura Crag so I went with ‘Plan B’ & a lower level route across Beda Fell to Howtown, up over Askham Fell (stone circle) and along to Bampton & Shap.