The Search for Boar Wallows
A Guest Blog by Chantal Lyons, author of Groundbreakers: The Wild Boar’s Return to Britain. It took me five months to find. The boar were…
Tag: tracking
What are the vertical marks and scars on tree bark?
An explanation for some of the mysterious vertical marks and scars we find on trees.
How to Find Your Way Using Horse Dung
For thousands of years humans have been riding horses (possibly as much as 5,500 years). This of course means that horse tracks and dung can…
Snow Tells Tales About Trails
There are many different kinds of snow, as the Inuit know only too well. You are probably familiar with how easy it is to track…
The Meaning of Missing Moss
Moss is important in natural navigation, but not the quick easy method that many seem to think. I’ve written about the challenge of using moss…
Tracking Tractors
Was this tractor heading towards us or away from us? Spoiler Alert 🙂 Tractors gain more traction with a ‘backwards’ herring-bone tread on their tyres.…
How to Navigate Using Snow Strips
As is my habit at this time of year, I like to get out early after any overnight snow. The tracking opportunities are spoiling and…
The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs
The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal – when you know what to look…
Newsletter Quiz
The following is taken from the last newsletter (subscribers received a fuller version of this a month ago, you can subscribe at the bottom of…
The Beast from the East
Cold air from the east is bringing weather mayhem. Or some snow and what we British like to call mayhem. As Bill Bryson once commented,…
Shortcut Clues in the Clwydian Range
I had a bit of fun on a short walk in the beautiful Clwydian Range of hills recently, using a very simple technique that hovers…
Ramblings with Clare Balding
In 2010 I was honoured to lead Clare Balding on the first ever night walk for her wonderful Radio 4 series, Ramblings. Yesterday we were…
Turning Over a New Leaf
Here is the perfect plant for to set the new year up with, Mimosa Pudica. The leaves recoil visibly from the touch, earning the plant…