Your help needed to theme Cicerone's talks and seminars at the 2009 NEC Outdoors Show
The nice people over
Cicerone
Press would like
your
help to make sure that their
seminars and talks at next year's
NEC Outdoors Show are as interesting and relevant as possible,
in effect it's your chance to make sure you get what you want from the
Cicerone lectures.
Come
up
with a great idea and Cicerone will incorporate it in the programme.
And hats off to them for trying something different. Maybe you want
practical demonstrations? Or slide shows? Or something else entirely.
So far, it looks like these are going to be the main speakers, all
Cicerone writers:
Kev Reynolds is a
bit of a guidebook legend, possibilities include a seminar on
walking in the Alps
for all levels of experience,
Hut
to Hut Tours which could be either a seminar or slide
show, a seminar on organising your own tea hut house trek in
the Himalayas, or slide shows covering a tour of the Jungfrau or of
general mountain scenes over the last 50 years.
But maybe you want to know more? Or different, what's it like being a
guide book author for example? How exactly is a guide book put
together? Do you have to walk every inch covered? How long does it take?
OM forum
regular
Paddy
Dillon has a raft of warm weather slide shows, but is also
happy to run a seminar on
Lightweight
Trekking.
There's plenty more besides, how does a talk on how a
White Peaks walks guide has changed over the last 20 years grab you?
What do you want to see or learn in a navigation seminar? Tricks? Tips?
GPS or not GPS.
And then,
Amy-Jane Beer
the author of new outdoors cookbook Moveable Feasts - above - is going
to be there, which opens up all sort of possibilities from talks about
the practical stuff like outdoors nutrition through to live
demonstrations of recipes or ideas from the book...
What do you think?
How about some blue sky thinking then: What do you want
from talks generally? Do you prefer seminars or straight slide shows
and presentations? Do you want to know something in particular from any
of the authors?
Tell Cicerone what you reckon in the forum thread linked below and
they'll come back with a provisional plan in the New Year :-)
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