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Outdoor Gear Coach is an independent organization that publishes books on how outdoor products and clothing function. Outdoor Gear Coach is an exciting and innovative new venture to enable everyone, from outdoor fans and instructors to industry professionals, to better understand and use outdoor gear and additionally appreciate where it all came from, what was invented first, and by whom.
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Performance Layering is a skill based on a sound knowledge of what each layer does and selecting and sequencing for your trip according to weather, speed of group, and distance and nutrition and hydration ..read more
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Context.
After five years of research and consensus building, our multi-authored cross-Atlantic collaborative book ‘Keeping Warm and Staying Dry was published last year on Amazon. As Outdoor Gear Coach, we have trained the BMC technical committee, all engineers, on textiles generally plus garments. We are now developing training courses focused on the skill of Performance Layering. I delivered a one-day course in Cumbria for BAIML. So what is performance layering? It’s a skill based on a clear technical understanding of what each of your 7 layers does or does not do (usi ..read more
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Outdoor Gear Coach/Mike Parson’s visit to OTS 2022
Outdoor Trade Show June 8th 2022 Liverpool exhibition centre, UK.
We successfully published ‘Keeping dry and Staying Warm, last year and have now added a zoom based 9 x1 hr workshop training system. The workshop content is accessible through our Padlet.com teaching platform for reference and trainee dialogue.
I decided that visiting the OTS in Liverpool would be a good catch up after extended lockdowns, so I set off at 6:30 a.m. from Patterdale but didn’t make it until 9:30 a.m., missing my first meeting appointment with Chr ..read more
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