The Great Outdoors
The Craven area of the Yorkshire Dales National Park is blessed with lovely valleys and bald sheep-shorn uplands which include the famous 'three peaks' of Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-ghent. This is splendid walking country where excursions can vary from those linking village pubs or striding out across the hills where one might meet nobody all day long. The three peaks walk is but one of many such and, of course, the Pennine Way and Dales Way provide long distance walkers with a passage through the Dales. The Settle-Carlisle Railway can be used as an outward or return link to facilitate walks over the hills and there are baggage handlers who will ferry your belongings if you want to make longer excursions without encumbrance.
Wonderful excursions can be achieved on a mountain bike or on horseback. For the more adventurous, there is climbing at all grades including some of the hardest and most dramatic in the UK or you can go underground to the show caves at Stump Cross, Clapham and Ingleton or the extensive pothole systems such as Gaping Gyll, Lancaster Hole and many others. A word of caution. Even these little hills can be dangerous in adverse conditions that can come about at any time of year. You are advised to be prepared and to be prudent.
All in all this is a great area for leisure pursuits and therefore also for outdoor activities for management development. Any activity can be a learning medium, especially in the hands of a good facilitator. Outdoor activity can have elements of adventure and playfulness that open people to aspects of their potential. However we do not always or automatically learn from experience (or all adventurers would be wise!) so the experience needs to be designed and the learning needs to be grasped. A major factor in this is conducting learning reviews - What happened? What really happened? How did my behaviour influence the outcome? How might I have behaved differently? What do I need to change in myself to be more effective? - and so on. Very similar experiences can focus on profoundly different learning, according to the needs of the learner and the skill of the facilitator.
At High Trenhouse we provide the expertise and the equipment for a wide range of activities and exercises to meet your needs. These can be simple team tasks with a focus on relationships or problem solving, to complex games and simulations that will test and develop the capability of management teams.
Wildlife
Malham Tarn Field Centre
Guide to Malham Walks
Guide to Pennine Way
Yorkshire Dales Trekking Centre
Caving and climbing: Gaping Gill
from Bradford Potholing Club website
Climbing Equipment website
British Mountaineering Council website
Biking Portal and Interactive Map
Mountain Bikes Routes starting and ending in Malham
Mastiles Lane Bike Route
