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Gorge Walking & Bog Trotting in the Peak District National Park.
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- We're often
asked "What
is Gorge walking ?"
- and "What is exactly is Bog Trotting ?"
- GORGE WALKING
- Quite simply, as far as we are concerned here
- at Peak Activities, Gorge Walking simply involves
- youngsters & adults enjoying led-walks through
- some spectacular local gorges scrambling over
- rocks and crossing streams and rivers - and
- having loads of fun whilst usually getting quite
- wet & soggy ! Bring along some spare clothes !
- As there are no Grand Canyons or deep Alpine
- ravines in our National Park, we are are very
- keen to make sure there are no misrepresenations !
- Gorge walking with Peak Activities in the Peak Park
- does not involve wearing wet suits and safety
- helmets, for example. We run led-walks, scrambles
- and adventurous treks and Nordic Walking sessions
- in and out of gorges through the year.
- In the UK centres need to be licensed by the AALA to run gorge walking
- sessions for under 18's from schools or scout troops etc. Our centre in
- Hathersage - Rock Lea is fully licensed for gorge walking.
- IS GORGE WALKING EXTREME ?
- "Well not really compared to other things we do..."
- Over at our base in the Alps and the up in the Scottish Highlands "Gorge Walking" and the sport of Canyoning
- are more specatular activities involving donning wet suits and safety helmets and jumping and abseiling down huge waterfalls into pools of ice cold mountain water....but that doesn't happen overground in the Peak District National Park because the landscape here is a little more tame !
- Similarly, we don't have massive rapids for white water rafting ....sorry, but you'll have to come over to the Alps with us to Tyrol to enjoy those activities with us !
- TOP TIP !
- If getting wet and splashing in pools and abseiling into
- tight ravines is what you're looking for, why not go to
- our caving and potholing pages - a session with us deep
- underground has everything that canyoning can offer and then some ! Caving can be every bit as extreme as the gorge walks we do over in the Alps..but darker & more remote too ! The views are different !
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- A bit darker than your average
- gorge walk, abseiling into a
- pothole is a real adventure
- few people have ever done !
- We run beginners weekends offering
- caving and potholing and abseiling
- experiences open to the public every
- month all year round.
- Click for dates and prices.
- We offer a huge range of sports activities.
As seen on television. - Peak Activities are happy to tailor caving and potholing events
- for private group and include caving-related training exercises
- in the leadership and management development training
- courses run by Peak Activities' chartered training consultants.
- We're often
asked "What
is Gorge walking ?"
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For private groups we can also set up rope crossings tasks, casualty evacuation exercises and lots of other pioneering projects in a gorge on the private estate we use for management training. One of our popular training exercises for private parties based in a gorge on a private estate is our Tyrolean Traverse.
Nordic
Walking" BOG TROTTING "
- The Peak District contains some of the
largest
- and most remote upland moorlands in England.
- The views up there on the heather and bleaberry
- covered peat moors are out of this world & they
- include "moonscape" wind-eroded rock features
- you'll never see anywhere else. Trekking up here
- with our walking guides and Nordic Walking tutors
- is very popular.
- All year round people who enjoy this experience
- say the views from the high plateaus edges are breathtaking. Our base in Hathersage is ideally
- situated close to these moorland wonderlands
- and we can use our fleet of minibuses to get you
- high up on the local "Dark Peak" hills quickly and
- easily. The start of the famous "Pennine Way"
- promoted by Wainwright is at nearby Edale - and
- all who have completed this 270 mile walk along
- the spine of England agree the toughest stretches
- of upland walking are the first two days tramping
- here over the trackless and hard to navigate vast
- open tracts of Kinder Scout, Bleaklow & Black Hill.
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- What exactly is Bog trotting ?
- The unusual experience of walking over the very
- highest tops of the local wilderness peat plateaus of
- Kinder Scout and Bleaklow is a great joy. "Walking"
- on these high and wild parts of the Pennines however,
- is a misnomer in all but the driest spells. Some parts
- of the mosses and heaths have the consistency of wet porridge ! Much of the time the heavily dissected peat blanket bog is quite moist & interesting underfoot !
- Bog trotting is our affectionate term for enjoyable
- treks crossing this area on foot (or your hands and knees !) and exploring this unique upland landscape, where nimble footwork keeps you out of the soggy bits !
- The edges of the local high plateaus are steep and freely drained but the vast expanses of moorland which form the flat table tops of these Dark Peak mountains are often quite wet and hard work to trek across. In winter when the ground is frozen solid it's a wonderful place of solitude with just the
- noise of the cracking ice underfoot and the lonely calls of
- Red Grouse and Kestrels and solitary sheep all around
- you. If you're lucky you may see a Blue Mountain Hare
- scampering across the snow covered ground in her white winter coat. Whether you're a keen walker, naturalist,
- botanist, geologist or photographer you'll love the rare experience of just being high up here.
- and most remote upland moorlands in England.
Take only photographs, leave only footprints...
- Not a place
for the geographically challenged at any
- time of the year, the high windy plateaus of Kinder
- Scout and Bleaklow and Black Hill are just a short drive
- from Rock Lea along the A57 Snake Pass route or via
- the Edale Valley.
- This is great landscape in which to test your map & compass or GPS skills under the watchful aegis of
- our expert, government licensed instructors. You need
- to be quite fit to enjoy activities up here, but those who
- do opt to traverse the plateau on foot often say it was
- one of the unexpected highlights of their stay with us.
- We suggest fit clients should consider including a trip
- up here to the experience the remote moonscape of the
- high plateaus to complete their exploration & discovery
- and experience of the Peak District National Park.
- In the UK centres need to be licensed by the AALA to run high level
- walking and trekking sessions for under 18's from schools or scout
- troops etc. up on these wild, potentially hazardous moorlands.
- Our centre in Hathersage - Rock Lea is fully licensed for such
- walking both in winter and in summer.
- Getting here from all parts of the UK is very easy.
- time of the year, the high windy plateaus of Kinder
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