Top tips Tuesday
Use a pencil sharpener to shave twigs to get wood shavings to start a fire 2.Dew on grass can be absorbed by clothes and ringed out for drinking water. 3.Brewing…
Birch/Betula
Time to pay some #homage to the trusty #Birch (#Betula) ready for some facts? 1. The Birch is a #pioneer species meaning they are one of the first #species to…
Island Survival Course now live!
Left on an island in the middle of a Highlands Loch, would you survive? This course takes place on a private Island on the West Coast of Scotland and It’s…
First line of Protection
Our first line of Protection in the outdoors is our clothing and there is certain ways you can put on your clothing to get the best out of them and…
High Fire Risk
As we all know fire can get out of control at an alarming rate. The Easter holidays have brought some tinder dry conditions. Even with forecasted wet weather coming in…
PREPARE YOURSELF
#route planning….what’s your strategy? Going on a day, multi-day or expedition there’s homework to be done! #weather reports, route cards, gleening local knowledge and a whole lot of #research will mean you’ve adhered to the…
GPS Units Pro’s VS Con’s
A big thanks to Garmin UK for sending us GPS units for clients to trial this year on our courses. Where it is undeniable that GPS have their place as…
If it aint raining it aint training
That’s the winter courses wrapped up for us and onto spring/summer programme. The final course of the year was our LSI winter module where prospective candidates, wanting to become instructors…
The five most surprising things I learned on a Backcountry Survival course
From anxious recluse to trier, speaker, author and, some days, trainee astronaut, Paula McGuire is the world’s least likely adventurer, with the world’s most inspiring adventure story. She joined us…
Can you stop your fall?
Do you have the skills to stop a potentially deadly slip in the mountains? One of the most important survival skill to possess if you’re out in a winter environment…
Whiteout
A short video of the weather conditions you might encounter this time of year on the UK mountains. Always make sure you have adequate equipment to tackle icy conditions such…
Return to winter conditions in the Gorms
Rubbish day on the hill today, don’t go, you wont enjoy it 🤪 Great first day of our 2 day winter skills course looking at #navigation #iceaxe and #crampons #avalanche…
Coastal Foraging
BCS and the LSI are just back from the Ardnamurchan peninsula up NW Scotland running the Coastal module for the Land-based Survival Instructor. A large part of the course was…
Survival Tips For The Extreme Cold
There are but a few extreme conditions on this earth that are as punishing or worse than the extreme cold. Ice and snow bring hypothermia, frostbite, isolation from help and…
Winter Survival…Final Place remaining
Final place left on our scheduled winter courses 8th-10 of February. Join us for the ultimate winter survival course. Learn to navigate, move safely through a winter environment and spend…
BCS were asked to respond to a tragedy recently by the Sunday Post. A great argument for print being replaced by digital. Poor representation of what we said, along with…
Britains last true wilderness?
This weekend saw the first opportunity to snow hole, winter is definitely here! Setting off from the ski car park at Cairngorm, we navigated up onto the Cairngorms plateau….
Christmas Vouchers
What better gift to buy a loved one than a voucher for one of our winter courses! We offer a wide range of winter skills course including our 3…
Review of the Fjallraven Telemark jacket
Many thanks to our friends at Trailblazer Outdoors, that filmed this review at the tail end of our Fjallraven training event down in North Wales this summer. If your looking…
BCS Partners with SPOT Gen3
Backcountry are proud to announce that we have partnered up with SPOT Gen3 a company that produces the best and most versatile PLB (Personal Location Beacon) on the market. We…
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