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From Hospitality to the Highlands: How Josh Started His Outdoor Instructor Journey 

Sometimes all it takes is one experience to completely change the direction of your career.  For Josh, that moment came during a guided snowshoeing trip. Having always loved spending time outdoors, he realised that helping others experience adventure could be more than a hobby, it could be a career.  Now, after joining Active Outdoor Pursuits’

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From the NHS to the Highlands: How Freddie Turned a Passion for the Outdoors into a New Career 

When Freddie joined Active Outdoor Pursuits’ Instructor Training Course, he was looking for more than new qualifications. He was searching for a completely different way of life.  After building a successful career with NHS Orkney, Freddie reached a point where office life no longer matched the future he wanted. Today, he’s developing outdoor leadership skills,

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From London desk job to the Scottish Highlands.  How Rachel went from burnout to retrain as an outdoor instructor.

Name: Rachel Ekstein Age: 27 Job title: Instructor What were you working as? I graduated from university in 2021, and took a role in start-up recruitment, spending a year at a start-up firm as a recruiting product managers, and then a year in the financial tech world, hiring engineers for trading companies in the USA. I then decided to take a sabbatical and

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From Motorsport to the Mountains: James’s Instructor Training Journey

Meet James, our Activities Leader, who completed his Instructor Training Course in winter 2021/2022. Before retraining, James spent four years working in motorsport, building and maintaining Formula 4 cars and travelling to racetracks across the UK and Europe. It was a fast-paced, demanding career, but when he saw an advert for the Instructor Training Course,

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Scotland; The West Highland Way

The West Highland Way – Adventure Travel Blog The West Highland Way is one of Scotland’s most iconic and well-travelled routes.  A total of 96 miles from Milngavie to Fort William, journeying from the city, through the Campsie Hills and into the rugged Mountains that are the Scottish Highlands!  You are immersed in culture, history

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Adventure Holiday in Scotland

Adventure Holidays in Scotland Recently, Scotland has been voted the most beautiful country in the world. If you have ever visited Scotland, you will most likely understand why. The country is unique, not just because of it’s remote places, deep lochs, breath-taking glens, craggy mountains and wild rivers but because it’s accessible. Scotland is for

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