An action-packed weekend - the 1st Buxton Adventure Festival

The first Buxton Adventure Festival kicks of on Saturday with an action-packed programme of events.


The festival programme of illustrated lectures followed by short films will be packed with speakers from the world of adventure, travel, photography and sport.

Headline speakers include downhill mountain bike World Champion Danny Hart (interviewed by ITV Cycle Show presenter Anna Glowinski) and the Queen’s Olympic Opening Ceremony stunt-double Gary Connery who this summer became the first person to jump from a helicopter without a parachute.

Squash Falcolner

Gavin Newman

The weekend feature some of Derbyshire’s finest adventurers and athletes including Derby born adventurer Squash Falcolner who climbed Everest and was the first British woman to paraglide from the top of Mont Blanc.  There’ll be talks from Bamford’s internationally renowned travel photographer John Beatty and Belper writer Gordon Stainforth - who’ll be talking about his latest book ‘Fiva - An Adventure that Went Wrong’ chronicling he and his twin brother’s brush with death on a teenage climbing expedition.  Other speakers include author of cult fell running book ‘Feet in the Clouds’ Richard Askwith (interviewed by adventure sports writer Nik Cook); chair of the River & Lake Swimming Association Rob Fryer; and award-winning cave-diver and film-maker Gavin Newman.

Maddie Thompson

And on Saturday and Sunday mornings they’ll be two special Young Adventurer sessions with stunt mountain biker Danny Butler and Castleton’s very own 17 year old Paralympic basketballer Maddie Thompson, fresh back from the 2012 Games, followed by an afternoon of activities.

In addition to the events at the festival, there's also the first Peak District Autumn Walking Festival - details of which can be found here.


Our October podcast featured an interview with Lissa Cook about the festival...

listen to ‘Edition 009 - The Chines of Bournemouth, Buxton Adventure Festival, the Hay Walking Festival and Sarah Howcroft on Rohan & ROG’ on Audioboo

For more information about the Buxton Adventure Festival, visit the website at buxtonadventurefestival.co.uk

Podcast Edition 009 - Show Notes

listen to ‘Edition 009 - The Chines of Bournemouth, Buxton Adventure Festival, the Hay Walking Festival and Sarah Howcroft on Rohan & ROG’ on Audioboo

Edition 9 of the Walks Around Britain podcast features a walk around The Chines of Bournemouth with writer and blogger Karen Guttridge, we preview the new Buxton Adventure Festival and the Hay Walking Festival - both happening in October - and the co-founder of Rohan, Sarah Howcroft talks about Recycle Outdoor Gear.


The Chines of Bournemouth

Karen Guttridge is a writer and blogger and her travels can be found on her blog as well as her Facebook page and Twitter stream.

The walk Karen embarked on for our podcast is a great one for families - and you can see photos of it on Karen's Flickr stream here.




Buxton Adventure Festival 

Lissa Cook talked about the first Buxton Adventure Festival, taking place on the 20th and 21st October in the Peak District town.

An unmissable weekend of guest speakers & featured films for adventurous spirits and minds at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton Opera House.  To find out about the speakers and the films in the programme visit the Festival's website. 

To complement the Festival, the tourist board Visit Peak District & Derbyshire are launching a new Walk & Watch Festival with a dozen guided walks across the Peak District.



Hay Walking Festival

Anna Heywood from Drover Holidays and Trisha Doree from the Brecon Beacons National Park joined Andrew to talk about the second year of the Hay Walking Festival.

The walk organisers and team have assembled a full walks and events for our second anual walking festival to take place in October 2012. A programme of over 50 guided walks is planned, for all ages and abilities, from full days to a few hours, together with some walks of special interest such as foraging and geocaching.

Some of the walks have already sold out, so a visit to the Hay Walking Festival website to book soon would be a good idea.


Sarah Howcroft - Recycle Outdoor Gear

Not content in co-founding Rohan some 40 years ago, Sarah Howcroft launched earlier this year Recycle Outdoor Gear (ROG) - the UK’s first free of charge online service dedicated to helping everyone find a solution to the endless amounts of gently used and unwanted outdoor clothing & equipment taking up space in cupboards, lofts and garages.

Most preloved gently used outdoor clothing and equipment has reuse or second life potential if only you could get the word out. Now you can!  To find out more, visit the Recycle Outdoor Gear website.

Gift Your Gear - the project supported by Rohan in their 60 stores throughout the UK - is only supposed to be during September, so we'll let you know if it is continuing - watch this space.




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