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New maps help find nature nearby in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Tagged with: cartography, Edinburgh, Glasgow, natural history, Rob Bushby, urban good
Posted in Book reviews, Cycling and bikes, Edinburgh, Maps, Pentlands
Posted in Book reviews, Cycling and bikes, Edinburgh, Maps, Pentlands
Urban Geology meets Urban Nature Maps
Edinburgh is a great city to be a geologist in. So much rock is exposed within the city bounds and there is a considerable variety in lithology, if not geological age. While the commanding heights of the seven hills (Arthur’s…
Tagged with: Edinburgh, Geodiversity, map, Social Good, urban nature
Posted in Book reviews, Edinburgh, Geodiversity, Geological Walks (urban), Maps, Scotland, Woodlands
Posted in Book reviews, Edinburgh, Geodiversity, Geological Walks (urban), Maps, Scotland, Woodlands
Cycle Training Assistant completed through Cycling Scotland
Over the past two weekends I continued my progress in building up my cycling qualifications through Cycling Scotland. Local difficulties prevented me from getting up to do my final day on Cycle Trainer course with a fantastic group with diverse…
An ‘L’ of a way with grid references
Despite the big changes in approaches to teaching navigation over the last decade or so, grid references will need to be introduced and used at some point to allow progression. As with a lot of the skills required for using…
The pitfalls of left and right in navigation and route description
We’ve all had the experience of mixing up left and right, often when trying to explain a route to a driver when we’re feeling under pressure ourselves. Confusing left and right may have been a contributing factor to the rout…
Completed British Orienteering Event Safety and Introduction to Orienteering e-learning
During the long days of lockdown, I found myself starting to do a lot of work for an organization where we were looking at Open Orienteering Maps and MapRunF as adjuncts to outdoor learning. This led to a gradual reconnection…
The evidence of craggers not seen
Under lockdown, I’ve followed my renewed interest in climbing outdoors by visiting my local crags in southern Edinburgh. We are exceptionally lucky, as Blackford Hill contains two cragging sites, as well as the bouldering problems associated with Agassiz Rock. Even…
Edgelands in North Lanarkshire
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 pervasive enough concept to warrant…
An unexpected Pavement Palaeontology bonanza at Straiton retail park
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’t have any call…
Lochan nan Arm: legends, translations and a bit of geomorphology
I’ve quite a long association with the area around Tyndrum in the Western Highlands. I first visited as part of one of my undergraduate projects when I was doing my geology degree related to past mining activity and then went…
