Planning & Prep

From getting ready for your first wild camp to concepts to how to make your adventures more unique and enjoyable, browse our guides, articles, resources below…

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Day Hiking Checklist – What to Bring On A Hike

Can You Bring Hiking Sticks or Poles on a Plane? - Can You Take Hiking Poles On A Plane

Can You Bring Hiking Sticks or Poles on a Plane?

how to plan an adventure

How to Plan an Adventure: Our Ultimate, Step by Step Guide

Planning & Prep Tips

Non judgemental advice that’ll help you make the most of your adventures and time outdoors. Click on the articles below to learn more about how to improve your adventures…

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Backpacking Meal Recipes and Food Dehydration Tips

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Best Freeze Dried Meals for Backpackers

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Lightweight Backpacking Food Guide for 2024

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Do Backpacking Tents Need a Footprint?

Can You Bring Hiking Sticks or Poles on a Plane? - Can You Take Hiking Poles On A Plane

Can You Bring Hiking Sticks or Poles on a Plane?

Letting Curiosity Become Your Guidance System - Fm Dsc F Rgb

Letting Curiosity Become Your Guidance System

Four Ways to Better Take Care of Your Skin Whilst Outdoors - Fm Dsc F Rgb

Four Ways to Better Take Care of Your Skin Whilst Outdoors

Getting Outside in Winter: How to enjoy the outdoors in the colder months - Fm Dsc F Rgb

Getting Outside in Winter: How to enjoy the outdoors in the colder months

Four Tips to Feel More Confident Hiking in the Darker Hours - Fm Dsc F

Four Tips to Feel More Confident Hiking in the Darker Hours

Every Adventure is a Unique Story: A complete guide to planning your own routes for more mindful nature based experiences - Fm Dsc F

Every Adventure is a Unique Story: A complete guide to planning your own routes for more mindful nature based experiences

Our Guide to Getting Into Hiking & Adventure Post Covid-19 - Dsc F Rgbcopy Copy

Our Guide to Getting Into Hiking & Adventure Post Covid-19

how to plan an adventure

How to Plan an Adventure: Our Ultimate, Step by Step Guide

Training for Altitude Adventures: Part Two - Fm Dsf F Rgb

Training for Altitude Adventures: Part Two

Feel Better Whilst Backpacking: Why looking after your skin is as important as what you put in your body - Fm Dsf F Rgb

Feel Better Whilst Backpacking: Why looking after your skin is as important as what you put in your body

Training for Altitude Adventures: Part One - Fm Fmd F Rgb

Training for Altitude Adventures: Part One

How To Make Complex, Difficult or Ambitious Travel Projects Work - Fm Fmd F Rgb

How To Make Complex, Difficult or Ambitious Travel Projects Work

Learning From The Professionals: How we've taken our hiking confidence to the next level - Fm Fmd F Rgb

Learning From The Professionals: How we’ve taken our hiking confidence to the next level

How We Choose & Pack our Camera Equipment for Travel & Adventure - Bagcomp F

How We Choose & Pack our Camera Equipment for Travel & Adventure

Our Quick Guide For Staying Eco Friendly Whilst Travelling, Hiking and Backpacking - Fm Dsf F

Our Quick Guide For Staying Eco Friendly Whilst Travelling, Hiking and Backpacking

Exploring the Desert Around Joshua Tree National Park – our ultimate guide - Fm Dsf F

Preparing For Your First Backcountry or Wild Camping Trip

Overcoming Mental Challenges Whilst Hiking: 5 techniques for developing your confidence - Fm Dsf F

Overcoming Mental Challenges Whilst Hiking: 5 techniques for developing your confidence

Preparation is Key - How to prepare yourself physically and mentally to push your adventures to the next level - Fm Dsf F Rgb

Preparation is Key – How to prepare yourself physically and mentally to push your adventures to the next level

Better Travel Photography

Whether you’re a content creator, professional, keen enthusiast or just interested. Our guides, articles, resources aim to equip you with a better understanding of your images and help you get more from your travel photography…

In Pictures: Salton Sea, California - Fm Dsc F Rgb

In Pictures: Salton Sea, California

Using Your Creative Voice For Change - Fm Dsc F

Using Your Creative Voice For Change

Project-Based Photography – A Way To Break Creative Deadlock And Elevate Your Image-Making - Fm Fmd F Rgb

Project-Based Photography – A Way To Break Creative Deadlock And Elevate Your Image-Making

Rediscovering Your Creativity in Familiar Places - Fm Dsc F

Rediscovering Your Creativity in Familiar Places

What’s Old is New Again – Revisiting and Reinterpreting Past Work - F F

What’s Old is New Again – Revisiting and Reinterpreting Past Work

Our guide to the Best Lightweight Tripods for Travel, Hiking and Backpacking in 2023 - Index Image F

Protecting What You Love: How Lockdown Has Changed Our Appreciation For The Familiar

Demystifying Photographic Workflows: How to manage your photography better from start to finish - Fm Dsc F

Demystifying Photographic Workflows: How to manage your photography better from start to finish

The Story Behind the Image: Alabama Hills, California - Fm Dsf F

The Story Behind the Image: Alabama Hills, California

The Story Behind The Image: The Rossfeld Panorama Strasse - Fm F Rgb

The Story Behind The Image: The Rossfeld Panorama Strasse

The Story Behind The Image: Navajo Lake Utah - Fmd F Rgb

The Story Behind The Image: Navajo Lake Utah

The Story Behind The Image: Oeschinensee, Switzerland - Fm F Rgb

The Story Behind The Image: Oeschinensee, Switzerland

Storytelling & Filmmaking in Lockdown: What we learned whilst making our most ambitious film so far - Image

Storytelling & Filmmaking in Lockdown: What we learned whilst making our most ambitious film so far

Our Tips For Planning A Photography Project - Image Asset

Our Tips For Planning A Photography Project

Upping Your Game in Photography: Our guide to moving beyond the snap shot - Dsc F Rgb

Upping Your Game in Photography: Our guide to moving beyond the snap shot

Better Travel Photography - Blog Mindfulmoments

TEA TV: Mindful Moments Photography Challenge

Experimentation in Photography: How you can improve the composition of your images - Fm Dsc F Rgb

Experimentation in Photography: How you can improve the composition of your images

The Key To Taking Better Photographs? Ask Better Questions - Fm Dsc F Rgb

The Key To Taking Better Photographs? Ask Better Questions

Why Colour Matters: Our approach to colour and contrast in our images - Fm Fmd F Rgb

Why Colour Matters: Our approach to colour and contrast in our images

Getting the Most Out of Your Weekend Photography with Fujifilm X Series - Fm Dsf F Copy Rgb

Getting the Most Out of Your Weekend Photography with Fujifilm X Series

La Palma: Discover Something Different in the Canary Islands - Fm Dsc F

Why You Have Such Low Self-Esteem About Your Photography And How to Change it

How To Make Complex, Difficult or Ambitious Travel Projects Work - Fm Fmd F Rgb

How To Make Complex, Difficult or Ambitious Travel Projects Work

How We Choose & Pack our Camera Equipment for Travel & Adventure - Bagcomp F

How We Choose & Pack our Camera Equipment for Travel & Adventure

Using presets is killing your photography - here's how to bring your photography to the next level and never use a preset again - Fm Fmd F Rgb

Using presets is killing your photography – here’s how to bring your photography to the next level and never use a preset again

A More Selective View: why you should consider using longer lenses for landscape photography. - Fm Fmd F Rgb

A More Selective View: why you should consider using longer lenses for landscape photography.

Opportunistic Travel Photography - Our guide to making the most of any trip - Fm Fmd F Rgb

Opportunistic Travel Photography – Our guide to making the most of any trip

Lightening the Load – Using the Fujifilm X Series Mirrorless System on a Deep Winter Expedition - Fm Dsf F Rgb

Lightening the Load – Using the Fujifilm X Series Mirrorless System on a Deep Winter Expedition

Photographing Challenging landscapes – How to elevate your photography beyond the mundane - F F Rgb

Photographing Challenging landscapes – How to elevate your photography beyond the mundane

Preparation is Key - How to prepare yourself physically and mentally to push your adventures to the next level - Fm Dsf F Rgb

Preparation is Key – How to prepare yourself physically and mentally to push your adventures to the next level

Planning and Prep for Travel

Use our guides below to help you be better prepared for travel and flying:

can you take make up on a plane

Can You Bring Make-up on a Plane?

aerosol on a plane

Can You Bring Aerosol on a Plane?

can you take sunscreen on a plane

Can You Bring Sunscreen on a Plane?

can you take portable chargers on a plane

Can You Bring Portable Chargers on a Plane?

can you bring perfume on a plane

Can You Bring Perfume on a Plane?

can you bring snacks on a plane

Can You Bring Snacks on a Plane?

can you bring fruit on a plane

Can You Bring Fruit on a Plane?

can you take toothpaste on a plane

Can You Bring Toothpaste on a Plane?

can you take a blanket on a plane

Can You Bring a Blanket on a Plane?

can you take plants on a plane

Can You Bring Plants on a Plane?

can you take batteries on a plane

Can You Bring Batteries on a Plane?

can you take an electric toothbrush on a plane

Can You Bring an Electric Toothbrush on a Plane?

can you take umbrellas on a plane

Can You Bring Umbrellas on a Plane?

can you take deodorant on a plane

Can You Bring Deodorants on a Plane?

can you take scissors on a flight

Can You Bring Scissors on a Plane?

Can you take candles on a plane

Can You Bring Candles on a Plane?

can you take a razor on a plane

Can You Bring Razors on a Plane?

can you take curling irons on a plane

Can You Bring Curling Irons on a Plane?

can you bring shampoo on a plane

Can You Bring Shampoo on a Plane?

Can you take a lighter on a plane

Can You Bring a Lighter on a Plane?

can you bring tweezers on a plane

Can You Bring Tweezers on a Plane?

can you take nail clippers on a plane

Can You Bring Nail Clippers on a Plane?

Can You Bring Hiking Sticks or Poles on a Plane? - Can You Take Hiking Poles On A Plane

Can You Bring Hiking Sticks or Poles on a Plane?