Footnotes: The Cicerone Podcast

Moose Mutlow returns to the podcast to chat with Hannah about the work he does around environmental education in Yosemite National Park in California. Find out how Moose teaches young people to not just understand but treasure this National Park and the wildlife it contains. About our guestMoose has nearly 4 decades of traditional and alternative education experience around the globe. He has course directed 58-day Outward Bound instructor trainings in Appalachia, been a deputy headmaster in the Kalahari Desert, managed a beach concession on the Mediterranean, slogged through Australian rain forests with middle school students, juggled as a street performer in too many cities to mention, has more than 2000 days of field instruction in a wilderness setting, spent four months as the Interim Head for an elite ski academy, and recently returned from teaching a canoe program for Veterans on the Gulf of Mexico.Since 2002 Moose has been a member and senior trainer of Yosemite Search and Rescue, working as a technician and within Incident Command, at one of the busiest SAR operations in the world. Moose currently works for NatureBridge in Yosemite National Park as the Senior Projects Director for planning, design and construction of the National Environmental Science Center.  Moose has been the Lead Trainer for Family Liaison Officers for the National Park Service teaching trainings with staff from Yosemite, Arches, Smokey Mountains, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, Theodore Roosevelt, Joshua Tree, Sequoia Kings, Point Reyes, Lassen, Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.Find more from Moose on his website here. ContactThere are nearly 400 Cicerone guidebooks for walking, trekking, cycle touring and other mountain activities, and a free walking route is available on the website for each book. The Cicerone website offers e-book and printed book options as well as free GPS tracks and regular updates.Search for @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook community group, Cicerone Connect. Sign up for the Cicerone newsletter to keep up to date with all our news, events and guidebooks.

Today on the podcast, blogger and author Fi Darby joins us to give you her top tips on how you can save money when getting outdoors. Listen in for great advice on where you can buy cheap gear, what pieces of kit you can substitute out safely, and how you can save money when traveling to and from areas of outstanding natural beauty. About our guestAfter moving to the West Country in 1998, Fi developed a love in equal parts for Devon’s shoreline and moors. Following a successful career as a secondary ICT teacher, Fi now works as a freelance copywriter and author whilst managing and co-authoring the popular outdoors blog Two Blondes Walking.Fi’s writing is inspired by long walks across the lonely moors of Dartmoor and icy swims in the winter seas of Torbay. Her second passion (after writing) is working with young people in the outdoors. Fi is a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition leader and has been an Ordnance Survey ‘Get Outside’ Champion since the programme began in 2016.ContactThere are nearly 400 Cicerone guidebooks for walking, trekking, cycle touring and other mountain activities, and a free walking route is available on the website for each book. The Cicerone website offers e-book and printed book options as well as free GPS tracks and regular updates.Search for @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook community group, Cicerone Connect. Sign up for the Cicerone newsletter to keep up to date with all our news, events and guidebooks.

Podcast with Jack Cornish, Head of Paths for the Ramblers, the largest walking community in Great Britain. Find out how the Ramblers help to protect your right to access the countryside, help more people access paths, and how they work with local authorities to restore walking routes that have been lost. So if you've always wondered what your right of access to the countryside actually is, then Jack is here to inform you. Receive 15% off a Ramblers membership with this special deal just for Cicerone fans. Head over to our Special Offers page for details. As a Rambler you'll get unlimited free access to hundreds of group walks every week, a searchable library of routes on our website for you to discover new walks every day and four issues of Walk magazine a year, packed full of kit reviews, life-changing stories and great routes. And what's more your membership will be helping to protect paths, tracks, trails and the places we love to walk. Available between: 24.11.2022 - 31.01.2023There are nearly 400 Cicerone guidebooks for walking, trekking, cycle touring and other mountain activities, and a free walking route is available on the website for each book. The Cicerone website offers e-book and printed book options as well as free GPS tracks and regular updates.Search for @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook community group, Cicerone Connect. Sign up for the Cicerone newsletter to keep up to date with all our news, events and guidebooks.About our guestJack Cornish is the Head of Paths at the Ramblers, having worked for the organisation for five years. The Ramblers’ Paths team support thousands of volunteers who protect, improve and expand the path network across Great Britain. You can find Jack on Twitter as @Cornish_Jack.

Today we're bringing you the highlights of our Cicerone Live Event on Winter Climbing in Scotland where Joe was joined by Mike Pescod for an expert Q&A. Mike is here to talk all about the New Cicerone guidebook covering a selection of hundreds of the best winter climbs on Ben Nevis and in the Glen Coe area, from straightforward Grade I snow gullies and ridges through to extreme test pieces above Grade VIII.If you'd like to experience the winter climbs in Scotland yourself, you can buy our brand new guidebook Winter Climbs: Ben Nevis and Glen Coe,Selected snow, ice and mixed routes in a two-volume set here.Search for @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook community group, Cicerone Connect. Sign up for the Cicerone newsletter to keep up to date with all our news, events and guidebooks.About our guestHaving climbed on Ben Nevis and in Glen Coe for fifteen years, Mike Pescod has an in depth knowledge of the climbs, the weather and the conditions you can experience here. Working full time as a mountain guide here for ten years, Mike has been on Ben Nevis over a thousand times and regularly spends up to a hundred days climbing each winter both professionally and recreationally.Mike has been on climbing trips right across Europe as well as to Russia, Tadjikistan, Nepal, East Africa and Peru but it is the unique quality of the climbing in Scotland that gives him the most enjoyment and satisfaction.With his wife, Louise, he runs a mountain guiding and instruction company and has every intention of climbing in the hills here for many years to come.

Today Hannah is joined by Team GB's World Cup Telemark Ski Racer, Jasmin Taylor. Jaz holds the record for the British skier with the most World Cup and World Championships medals. Jaz is on the podcast to tell those of you who don't know, what Telemark Skiing is, tell you about her life as a Team GB athlete, and maybe even to inspire you to get out on the snow.Links and mentionsThe Telemark CompanyMaier Sports.FIS TelemarkChill Factore ManchesterThe Snow Centre Hemel HempsteadAbout our guestWith 39 World Cup podiums to her name, Jasmin Taylor, Jaz, is Britain's most decorated winter sport athlete in history and last year she ended the season ranked second in the overall global Telemark World Cup standings. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram.ContactSearch for @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook community group, Cicerone Connect. Sign up for the Cicerone newsletter to keep up to date with all our news, events and guidebooks.

Today we're bringing you the highlights from our November Cicerone Live event with authors​​ Simon Whitmarsh and Andrew Mok. They're talking about their new guidebook, Hiking in Hong Kong which covers the multi-day Wilson, MacLehose, Hong Kong and Lantau Trails and 25 day walks (from easy to challenging) on the fascinatingly diverse Hong Kong archipelago, including Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories and the islands. With notes on plants, wildlife and geology (including the UNESCO-listed geopark) and public transport information.Click here to pre-order your copy of Hiking in Hong Kong and if you use the code: KONG10 you'll receive a discount at checkout.If you'd like to watch the full video of this event or even join in on the next one, you can do so on our live page.Search for @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook community group, Cicerone Connect. Sign up for the Cicerone newsletter to keep up to date with all our news, events and guidebooks.About our guests​​Simon Whitmarsh and Andrew Mok are keen walkers, covering over 2000km a year. They have walked extensively in Britain, doing (at least part) of all the major trails, have hiked across England twice, and have walked in most countries in Europe. More recently their addiction to mountains has increased, with treks in the US (including many parts of the Appalachian trail), Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Nepal (Everest Base Camp).

Today Hannah is joined by Cicerone author Dave Whitson to talk about his new guidebook to the Via Podiensis (Chemin du Puy) pilgrim route along the GR65 through southern France to the Pyrenees. The 750km route links Le Puy-en-Velay with Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and the start of the Camino Francés to Santiago. Dave covers both the Célé Valley and Rocamadour variants. Find out about all the Via Podiensis has to offer including the best of French village life, offering a unique combination of pleasant trails, quaint historic communities and cultural delights.If you'd like to walk the GR65 yourself then you can get Dave's guidebook, Camino de Santiago - Via Podiensis, Le Puy to the Pyrenees on the GR65 here. Search for @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook community group, Cicerone Connect. Sign up for the Cicerone newsletter to keep up to date with all our news, events and guidebooks.About our guestDave Whitson is a high school History teacher in Portland, Oregon and a graduate of the University of Washington. He made his first pilgrimage in 2002 on the Camino Francés and was inspired to return with a group of his high school students, which he did in 2004. He has led a total of seven student pilgrimage trips, including five on the Camino de Santiago (four on the Francés and one on the Norte) and two on the Via Francigena. In addition, he has made long distance treks in Norway on the Pilgrim Road to Nidaros, in England on the North Downs Way to Canterbury, and in Turkey on the Lycian Way. All told, he has walked roughly 10,000 kilometers on pilgrim roads in Europe. Dave first walked the Camino del Norte and Camino Primitivo in 2008, returned with a student group in 2009, and then re-walked it in 2011 to ensure up-to-date route information for this guidebook.

Today we're bringing you the highlights from our October Cicerone Live event with author Sandy Brown, who will be discussing the 800 mile (1289km) California Missions Trail between San Francisco Bay and San Diego. The pilgrimage trail takes in 21 historic Spanish missions and can be completed in 50-60 walking days or 2-3 weeks cycling. Click here to pre-order your copy of Hiking and Cycling the California Missions Trail. If you use the code: LAUNCH10 you'll receive a discount at checkout. If you'd like to watch the full video of this event or even join in on the next one, you can do so on our live page.Search for @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and join our Facebook community group, Cicerone Connect. Sign up for the Cicerone newsletter to keep up to date with all our news, events and guidebooks.Episode resourceswww.missionwalk.orgAbout our guestSandy Brown is Cicerone’s Assoc Publisher for Caminos and Pilgrimages. He has walked or biked over 10,000km of pilgrim trails in Europe and the US. Sandy is the author of Cicerone's guidebook to the Camino de Santiago: Camino Francés, a route he has walked or biked four times since 2008. He is also the author of Cicerone's guide to the Way of St Francis and Cicerone's new and upcoming guidebooks to the Via Francigena, and records his pilgrim adventures in his popular blog, www.caminoist.org. Sandy has recently walked and cycled the California Missions Trail so has plenty to say about the 814-mile trail.