TrekCo Life

Although mountain biking in the UK can be cold and muddy in the UK, Steve swears this day in South Wales was the most fun day of his month - looks like...

Many of you will know Ian Beach ('Beachy') as one of TrekCo's longest serving and most popular instructors. Ian now works at TrekCo for part of the year, and we were delighted to be able to support his team...

This year we offered a free five-day multi activity trip to the French Alps for teachers where they could take part in climbing,abseiling, white water rafting,via ferrata, canyoning and mountain walking in the...

As the sun sets on another sunny day at Blackland Farm the season is in full swing, with DofE groups every weekend and several residentials every week. Book early to avoid disappointment for...

Sometimes the Monday morning staff meeting at school can be, well, let's face it - boring. The Head coming up with their latest scheme to get the school in the news and appease the next set of OFSTED...

Tonbridge Girls' Grammar School made us a great flag last week which will take pride of place somewhere - currently the staff and Paul are fighting over ownership. They had a great week and are a fantastic...

This year's intake of trainee instructors started their 4 month intensive course at TrekCo last week with a week in the Lake District. For most trainees this is their first taste of full on adventurous hard...

Birthdays arrive when they arrive, and at TrekCo we are used to organising parties whatever the weather. Today we had a tunnelling party with a chilly group of young people making full use of the underfloor...

This view in the Peak District shows clearly the rigours of working in the great outdoors; waiting for groups at the top of hills is arduous, but has to be done. The flask is needed for the grim conditions to...

Every summer TrekCo run a trip to the French Alps - we go to the southern Alps where it's sunny and warm, and take Sixth Form students as well as our trainee instructors. This year's participants saw an action...

We've had a great summer of Duke of Edinburgh's Award expeditions, culminating in several groups participating in the Gold Award Expeditions in the Lake District in late August. The Gold Award is the flagship...

This weekend saw one of TrekCo's regular mountain biking trips; this time to Afan in South Wales. The trainees and some of the young instructors did several of the trails at this fantastic purpose built trail...

Every year at TrekCo we take on a crack team of new trainee outdoor instructors. They come to us for four months during which time they go to the Peak District, North Wales, the Lake District and the Alps as...

Bruce Lee, our Director of DofE Expeditions, sent in this shot of the sunset in the Peak District last night -'Another Day at the Office'. This week he's been supervising our Open Gold DofE Expedition groups...

Abhi Rai, one of our senior instructors, celebrated his birthday whilst working on a Gold DofE course - so we bought him a magnificent cake to celebrate. Then we ate it for him as we'd been out all day on the...