Wild Wheels
Touring Skills and Campcraft
Touring is fantastic. You're out in the nature with your bike - You can fly through glens and valleys and stop when you like. In the past we used to 'drum-up' and spend time to just listen, explore, nature watch and just plainly be. Occasionally we would 'bivvi' up.
It's with a tinge of regret that you turn and head for home..... admit it Ð you're tempted to stay!
Could you cope? Would you know what to do, when, how, where - and why?
In a unique combination - offered for the first time in the UK - we lead you on a wild biking experience in a remote, challenging and magnificent landscape and teach you the survival and risk management skills you need to prolong your trips - taking your cycling adventures onto an entirely different level.
This is an entirely practical course. You will be sleeping in lightweight tents and learning at your own pace, through hands-on experience, the lifelong skills of wilderness living and expedition planning:
choosing the correct equipment
identifying hazardous situations
making sensible decisions
finding safe water
using cutting tools
finding or building a shelter
making and fuelling fire
creating a cooking area and fuelling yourself
emergency repairs
living from the land
All you need is a bike and you sleeping bag/mat - we do the rest.
Wheels and Wild is be offered throughout the year at a cost of £175 per person. Bring your own bike!