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Footnotes: The Cicerone Podcast is a podcast to inspire you about outdoor travel and activities in the UK and across the world. As specialists in outdoor travel guidebooks for over 50 years, Cicerone Press has published nearly 400 guidebooks to walking, cycling, trekking, mountaineering and running all over the world. The Cicerone team is based in Kendal, near the Lake District, and we look forward to sharing our love of the outdoors with you. Through conversations with our guidebook authors, team members and other outdoor experts, this podcast offers plenty of inspiration and advice about exploring the outdoors. Whether you're an established long distance-trekker or have just rediscovered a love of walking or cycling, listen in to discover your next outdoor adventure.
Keep up to date with Footnotes and Cicerone by following @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and visit www.cicerone.co.uk, where you can browse our full range of guidebooks and read over 1000 articles by authors and outdoor experts. Send any feedback or questions to Hannah by emailing live@cicerone.co.uk. We hope you enjoy exploring the world with Cicerone.

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    • 4.6 • 16 Ratings

Footnotes: The Cicerone Podcast is a podcast to inspire you about outdoor travel and activities in the UK and across the world. As specialists in outdoor travel guidebooks for over 50 years, Cicerone Press has published nearly 400 guidebooks to walking, cycling, trekking, mountaineering and running all over the world. The Cicerone team is based in Kendal, near the Lake District, and we look forward to sharing our love of the outdoors with you. Through conversations with our guidebook authors, team members and other outdoor experts, this podcast offers plenty of inspiration and advice about exploring the outdoors. Whether you're an established long distance-trekker or have just rediscovered a love of walking or cycling, listen in to discover your next outdoor adventure.
Keep up to date with Footnotes and Cicerone by following @CiceronePress on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and visit www.cicerone.co.uk, where you can browse our full range of guidebooks and read over 1000 articles by authors and outdoor experts. Send any feedback or questions to Hannah by emailing live@cicerone.co.uk. We hope you enjoy exploring the world with Cicerone.

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    Environmental Education in Yosemite

    Environmental Education in Yosemite

    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 guest
    Moose 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.
    Contact
    There 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.

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    • 29 min
    Tips for Staying Safe Outdoors

    Tips for Staying Safe Outdoors

    Today on the podcast Hannah is joined by Moose Mutlow. Moose has been the voice of swiftwater safety and rescue in Yosemite National Park for more than a decade and is the author of “When Accidents Happen - a guide to working with crisis communication as a Family Liaison Officer.” He's on the Footnotes Podcast to give you his top tips for staying safe outdoors whether you're in the UK, US, or anywhere in the world.
    About our guest
    Moose 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.
    Contact
    There 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.

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    • 30 min
    Getting Outdoors on a Budget

    Getting Outdoors on a Budget

    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 guest
    After 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.
    Contact
    There 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.

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    • 41 min
    Who are The Ramblers and What do they do to Help Protect our Public Rights of Way?

    Who are The Ramblers and What do they do to Help Protect our Public Rights of Way?

    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 - 31.01.2023
    There 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 guest
    Jack 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.

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    • 25 min
    Winter Climbing in Scotland Live Event Highlights

    Winter Climbing in Scotland Live Event Highlights

    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 guest
    Having 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.

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    • 35 min
    An Interview with Team GB Telemark Skier Jasmin Taylor

    An Interview with Team GB Telemark Skier Jasmin Taylor

    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 mentions

    The Telemark CompanyMaier Sports.FIS TelemarkChill Factore ManchesterThe Snow Centre Hemel Hempstead
    About our guest
    With 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.
    Contact
    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.

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    • 38 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
16 Ratings

16 Ratings

Barrie Noble ,

Cicerone Bivvying in the UK

An excellent podcast, but they are always very good. This one with Ronald Turnbull on Bivvying is interesting, well balanced with humour and lots of useful tips on good and not so good aspects of bivvying. Thank you to Ronald and also to Hannah and Amy who run these podcasts well and always ask good questions and provide much useful information themselves.
Looking forward to future podcasts.

Barrie Noble

Sam WT ,

Fantastic outdoor podcast!

I absolutely love Cicerone’s podcasts! Of course some topics are more/less interesting depending upon your own personal interests, but particular favourites of mine were the Cambrian Way, Tajikistan and backpacking with Paddy Dillon. They’re an easy listen and really inspire you to dream of future trips.

AndyStarcross ,

Informative and interesting

I really enjoy listening to these podcasts. They feature interesting guests and cover a broad range of topics about the great outdoors.

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