Tristan Gooley

OUTDOORS

Dec 10

Author and expert natural navigator.

Tristan set up his natural navigation school in 2008 and is the author of award-winning and internationally bestselling books, including The Natural Navigator, The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs, How to Read Water and Wild Signs and Star Paths, some of the world’s only books covering natural navigation.

After decades spent hunting for clues and signs in nature, he regularly gets called the “Sherlock Holmes of nature”. He has written for the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and many magazines.

Tristan has led expeditions in five continents, climbed mountains in Europe, Africa and Asia, sailed small boats across oceans and piloted small aircraft to Africa and the Arctic. He is the only living person to have both flown solo and sailed singlehanded across the Atlantic and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society. In 2020 he was awarded the Harold Spencer-Jones Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of Navigation. It is the Institute’s highest award, given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to navigation.

Tristan is, to say the least, an expert.

We are lucky enough to know Tristan and to have worked with him. He has worked with two of our sister businesses The Good Life Experience and Camp Glen Dye.

Tristan Gooley Website

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Articles

Ten Things You Need To Make Winter Good

Our thoughts this winter, across our businesses, are focused on getting our guests and customers outdoors. I believe that winter is every bit as good as summer and that our relationship with the colder and darker months has become weirdly soured.

Autumn and winter last for about half the year, so we might as well try to make the best of them.

So here’s a short piece on my favourite kit -indoor and outdoor- for winter.

For The Love Of Pumpkins

The Folklore and Mythology of the Rowan Tree

Fungi And Foraging By Roger Phillips

Roger Phillips is a mushroom maestro and one of the most respected foragers in Great Britain.

In 1975 he began his life’s major work, photographing an encyclopaedic collection of world plants and he has since written 20 additional volumes with combined sales of 4.5 million copies worldwide.

FAQs On Crossing The Atlantic

My Month In The Country

In 1989 Charlie & Caroline Gladstone, SGI co-founders, upped sticks in London and moved to Glen Dye, Kincardineshire to raise their family.

They would go on to quite literally write the book on The Great Outdoors, and have always championed and befriended those who carve a life out for themselves in the countryside.

With a great exodus now taking place in our cities, these are the stories of those who call the countryside their home.

We asked them to speak about their favourite month in the country.

In Praise of: Trees

Tree-watching is a very under-rated hobby.

We tend to pass trees by, acknowledging them as part of the landscape, and paying more attention to wildflowers or wildlife. But once you start to recognise trees and to really observe them, they are every bit as fascinating and rewarding.

In Praise of: Chickens

Chickens. They’re everywhere. No, seriously!

As least twice a day I get up from my desk and head outside to wave my arms around in a fashion similar to tai-chi in attempt to usher chickens safely back into The Walled Garden.