The Next Challenge

Category: Living Adventurously

  • 2024 Next Challenge Grant – Open for applications

    2024 Next Challenge Grant – Open for applications

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    The Next Challenge Grant is now open for adventures happening in 2024. Click here to apply. What is The Next Challenge Grant? The Next Challenge Grant funds people having adventures, big and small, anywhere in the world. It is particularly aimed at those who have not done much or any of this sort of thing…

  • The Frog Whitton Challenge 

    The Frog Whitton Challenge 

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    Laura Moss
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    Cycling and dipping in the 16 biggest water bodies in the Lake District Last summer, Laura cycled around the Lake District, dipping into the 16 largest water bodies, in what she’s christened the Frog Whitton Challenge. She tells us more in this blog post. Many years ago, together with a group of mates, I decided…

  • West Windermere Way

    West Windermere Way

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    Laura Moss
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    A brand new 6km accessible trail has just opened on the west side of Windermere. Laura and our three sons went to explore… What is the West Windermere Way? The West Windermere Way is a 6km* accessible route, from Newby Bridge at the southern tip up to Lakeside YMCA. The first section up to Lakeside…

  • Online Cycle Touring Festival – Starts today

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    Tim Moss
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    The 2022 Cycle Touring Festival launches today with a week of free online events. Browse the programme and register at www.cycletouringfestival.co.uk Talks include: Fat biking through Columbia and Ecuador Britain’s 6,000 islands: which are the best for biking? Paralympian Mel Nicholls on hand-cycling the British coast 1,001 Cycling Tips: not all advice is good advice…

  • Free Cycle Touring Talks (and a live event tomorrow night)

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    Tim Moss
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    Riding the Pamir Highway, 22,000 miles of father/son cycling, round-the-world tandem record breakers, adapting any bike for touring, touring in a time of Covid, cycling in Israel/Palestine, the ethics of cycle touring, and Timmy Mallett cycling the Santiago de Compostela. All these talks and more are now available to watch, for free, on the Cycle…

  • Walking the Dales Way with a Baby

    Walking the Dales Way with a Baby

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    In December 2019 (pre-Covid), Laura and I walked the 80-mile ‘Dales Way’ long-distance footpath, carrying our son along the way. Here’s how it went… Our plan was to spend a week walking the Dales Way.  As luck would have it, the start of the Dales Way is not far from our current home in Yorkshire,…

  • This Friday: The Cycle Touring Festival Goes Online

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    Tim Moss
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    Starting this Friday, there are 10 days of free online events being held as part of the 2021 Virtual Cycling Touring Festival. Events include: Timmy Mallett – interview with the TV legend about his ride to Spain and back Capturing the sound of the UK – Paul Cheese cycled 5,000 miles around the British Isles…

  • Book Clearance!

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    Tim Moss
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    Buy ‘How To Get To The North Pole and Other Iconic Adventures’ (paperback + free ebooks) for £6 – SOLD OUT Buy ‘With the Sun on Our Right’ (paperback + free ebook + free bonus material) for £10 – SOLD OUT Or buy both – ‘North Pole’ + ‘Sun On Our Right’ – for £13…

  • Isolation Adventures: 10 ideas for keeping active under lockdown

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    Tim Moss
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    So, the lockdown continues. Another three weeks here in the UK and no doubt more to come. On the plus side, we have at least been allowed more freedom for getting outside and staying active. The challenge, as is often the case, is probably more mental than physical. How do you stay motivated when you’re…

  • Free talks, films and webinars this weekend – The Cycle Touring Festival goes virtual

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    Tim Moss
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    This weekend, the Cycle Touring Festival is happening online. It is free and accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. There should have been another Cycle Touring Festival in Lancashire next month. The venue was booked, speakers were signed up and tickets were close to selling. But, like so many things at the moment, it…

  • Cycle touring, without the flights

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    Tim Moss
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    For its sixth year, the Cycle Touring Festival is focussing on the near abroad: bicycle adventures that don’t involve flying. The festival is organised by my wife, Laura. It is the only festival in the UK aimed specifically at cycle touring (which is basically any bike trip that lasts more than a day). Every year…

  • Outdoors Station Podcast

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    Tim Moss
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    I was interviewed last week for The Outdoors Station podcast. Started by Bob Cartwright in 2005, it is the longest running podcast of its type. We discussed my approach to expeditions (cheap and simple), my ethos (adventuring is no better or more noble than working in an office) and my grant (open for applications now).…