The Outdoors Station

One of the keys to unlocking the hills and countryside is to have the ability to navigate confidently using a map and compass. Having this ability is a liberating experience, and we talk to navigation expert Pete Hawkins about what is involved in learning these skills. Sponsored by Cicerone Press.

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Becky Alison talks us through a more gentle approach to her Gap Year travel. As someone more cautious about traveling so far from home, she chose to go through established companies and contacts, slowly building up her confidence before returning to Australia a second time and really going for it!

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The West of Ireland is an attractive destination for sea kayakers, with its deeply indented coastline and challenging weather patterns. Jim Kennedy of Atlantic Sea Kayaking has a passion for this area and talks to Simon Willis regarding his top three routes, around Skibbereen in West Cork.

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We meet Basha O'Reilly once again and discuss the planning and preparation for her forthcoming 2008 trip, the world's first circumnavigation on horseback. Gear, safety, health, planning, fitness and good old fashioned luck, will all play a part.

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In this show Simon Willis talks to well know sportsman Nigel Dennis turned Kayaker, and finds out when, where and what turned him onto this sport.

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In this travel show we meet Beth who tells us of her 2006 Gap Year in Peru where she mixed it with traveling around neighboring countries for several months. Of course this included Machu Pichu, Lake Titicaca and a mountain bike ride down Death Road, sand boarding and the Nascar lines all formed part of this adventure!

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One form of traveling we haven't covered so far on The Outdoor Station is horseback. Mainly because we assumed that very few, if any, people still travel this way. However, how wrong we were! We are fortunate to meet a member of The Long Riders Guild. Lightweight horse riders out to see the world, and boy do they travel some miles!

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This time we are off to the South Pacific to 'castaway island' for a marine project, where in 2004 Fergus Brown spend his time on a Gap Year project, before heading to Australia and New Zealand to see what it had to offer.

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Brian Wilson is author of two of the most addictive and enjoyable Sea Kayaking books, Blazing Paddles and Dancing With Waves, which came as a result of his trip around the coast of Scotland and Ireland a few years back. Here he chats with Simon Willis from Sea Kayak Routes and tells the story of his paddling, his writing and his next book.

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Merry Christmas everyone! Andy Howell joins me for the Christmas show where we have a yomp across the hills, sample some real ale, and chat about 2007 and where we might be heading off to for 2008. Rose and Kate also join us and we all sit around a roaring fire in an award winning pub. What a life!

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