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Fellow outdoor educator Simon Beames recently told me that, when guiding in the Cairngorm Mountains, his students have fun saying, “I’m going over there for a Nan moment.” Obviously, this is an [...]

Here’s the story!  Back in 1995/96, an Independent Commission on Environmental Education was established to help us poor educators sift through the plethora of environmental education textbooks, [...]

I am a skier when on a glacier, first and foremost. In the mid-1980s, a twenty-plus day ski tour on Baffin Island’s Penny Ice Cap and its finger-like extensions taught me to love the clean, open [...]