Author Steve Ranger

2017 has been a great year at TrekCo; here are some pictures showing the range of activities from year group residential camps ...

Here at TrekCo we are always emphasising the need for training, and every year we take on a new group of keen young trainee instructors. This has been happening every year since 2004 and everyone comments how...

Plenty of planning, cleaning up and tent work - this is what the site looks like when a camp is being taken down! TrekCo staff work constantly for the success of your school residential and this is one of...

This weekend the trainees went to Snowdonia for training in lead climbing, scrambling and generally working in the wet! They learned more about setting up climbs on the Gribin Facet and went to World's End...

Des Barlow, our technical advisor for canoeing, recently paddled the Green River in Colorado on a multi day expedition. Des likes to do things the traditional way, so had this photo taken with his...

This week the TrekCo Trainees of 2017 are enjoying a fantastic week's weather in the Lake District climbing, walking, scrambling and abseiling. The TrekCo Trainee Scheme is, we think, the best in the country -...

TrekCo will be offering a season of GCSE PE climbing courses at very low prices this autumn - we're offering a set of dates in the Peak District, and another period in Sussex. Typically GCSE PE in Rock...

Many won't know TrekCo's official motto: 'Facere reservatio e vitare destitutione' or 'Book early to avoid disappointment'. This decades-old, wise saying from the mountains isn't any more true than at this...

This week a small group of staff from TrekCo and Deers Leap Bikes are off on a mountain biking trip in Utah and Arizona. It's tough, but someone has to do it.... This is TrekCo's second staff trip to Utah and...

At TrekCo we have seen a big increase in enquiries for GCSE PE climbing course for all exam boards. The changes in GCSE PE imposed by the government have meant that from spring 2017 GCSE PE activities such as...

Now that the 2016 season is slowly drawing to a close, we thought it a good time to make a very small gallery from our annual 4-5,000 pictures just to sum up the year. From early school activity residentials...

This summer TrekCo went to the French Alps as usual, and showed just why our Trainee Instructor Scheme is the best in our opinion. Trainees had two weeks in the sunny Alps doing via ferrata, canyoning,...

St George's School from Weybridge just had a good week in the Lake District completing their Gold DofE expedition. The weather was good in the daytime and any rain came at night - very lucky. All of the...

Nothing stops Cardinal Newman students! Over the Bank Holiday weekend we took a group of Year 10 students to the Peak District. Waking on the first morning we had two inches of snow on our tents, and knew it...

The Guardian Teacher Network has published the DofE's information about the DofE and its benefits to schools - check out the article here. (This link has now expired,...