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✨NEW BOOK: "Dartmoor Myths & Legends: Exploring Origins and Inspirations"
linktr.ee/dartmoorsdaughter_ Our guided walks and activities for adults, children, and teams include learning how to dowse days; painting & sketching afternoons; wild foods & foraging journeys; mindfulness meanders; navigation training days; tracking games; astronomy evenings, and nature trails. Private walks, groups, team performance, birthday events, and talks also available. Anyone who joins our walks and events report a greater sense of wellbeing as well enjoyment, fun and learning. Emma Cunis’ maternal family has loved and lived near Dartmoor for generations. Her grandmother 'Granny Val' introduced her first husband Eric Hemery to Dartmoor in the 1950s where he set up and offered guided walks and pony treks then wrote a series of well regarded books including ‘High Dartmoor’ described as 'the bible for anyone who has the spirit of Dartmoor'. Emma is a qualified Hill & Moorland Leader and has the accompanying Outdoor First Aid certificate. Her previous 20 years corporate career in Europe, America and Asia, ensures a professionalism in managing and facilitating different client groups and cultures as well as experience in organising events, leading teams, and presentation skills. We look forward to having you join us soon!

27/03/2026

My very helpful 4-legged assistant dreaming of new walks, talks, books and adventures to share with you all!🐶🏞️🥾🌳

Hope you’ll be joining us this spring?🐣

There’s a few spaces left on upcoming Public Group Walks (or add yourselves to waitlists if already full); several dates available for Private Hire over the Easter holidays; and some lovely new experiences to be announced in the next monthly newsletter - details on the website.

Happy Friday everyone!☀️💚🐾🌸😃

26/03/2026

This is Verran drawing contours on his hand to show how the land shapes (3D) are represented on maps (2D)! Contour interpretation is about understanding land shape, slope and aspect to aid navigation. And it is one of several key skills we will be teaching in more depth on this Saturday’s ‘Walk & Navigation Practice Day’ for Improvers/Intermediate level.

As well as refreshing our memories about the basics, there will be more advanced compass techniques such as back-bearings and magnetic declination, and relocation strategies for poor visibility or difficult terrain.

Plus…the bonus of Verran’s mountain leader experience and facilitation style will be learning how to use a ‘smooth’ walking style to increase enjoyment, endurance, and stability as well as to reduce joint pain and injury risk. He will also share tips on natural navigation - the art of finding your way using nature such as the sun, wind, plants, etc.

It also happens to a beautiful walk in a stunning location with lots to see and enjoy along the way! So if you need a confidence boost to explore new places and off the beaten track, join us this Saturday 28th.

3 SPACES LEFT. To Book & more info - https://www.dartmoorsdaughter.com/public-walks/walk-navigation-intermediate-march-26

25/03/2026

First foal (c**t) of the year on our local common here in Chagford - approximately 3 days old🐴🏞️🌳

So lovely to see but it’s still really cold up here at night (blizzard and hail last night) so the mare was smart bringing her little one down to the more sheltered areas.

They were at the back of the herd with the stallion acting as sentinel alternating with another mare at times so he could also rest and graze.

Ponies

24/03/2026

Beautiful stroll in the mizzle this morning through moss, fern and lichen covered woodlands; past old mine workings; and following sections of the exquisitely coloured grey-green-blue River Walkham.

This was an enjoyable busman’s holiday for me. The Dartmoor Preservation Association offer free walks and volunteer opportunities all over Dartmoor to its members. Thank you to Chairman John for leading and offering interesting insights into the area’s history.

For more information about DPA - https://dartmoorpreservation.co.uk

23/03/2026

There’s so much to love about spring after such a wet winter. Blackthorn blossom and wild garlic are two of my favourites!🍃And I heard my first Chiff Chaff and Blackcap of the year today🐦🎶🌳🌼

Join me for spring walks and talks - link in Bio.

22/03/2026

Short afternoon stroll with Mum to explore the ruins of a settlement with beautiful views across central and south Dartmoor. Swaling on the horizon.

21/03/2026

Belstone Common has so much beauty to offer, and this adventurous family were keen to discover it all.

They clambered up tors, admired vast views, appreciated the archaeology and geomorphology, listened to stories, discussed the challenges of land ownership and access, and finding the balance between livestock grazing and wildlife habitats. We talked about traditions such as beating the bounds. And there were taste-tests of pennywort, sorrell, and gorse petals. A brief river dip was enjoyed by a couple of hardy souls. And the chat was interspersed by moments of silence and a sense of peacefulness.

Thank you so much Wendy and family for inviting me to guide a belated birthday walk for you all! And to The Tors for looking after our guests so well with pre-lunch drinks🍻

19/03/2026

Gorgeous dry and sunny afternoon for a walk☀️but the easterly wind🌬️was way stronger than forecast - I had to lean into it at several points! Beautifully sheltered in the valleys though. And a refreshing ginger beer afterwards at Dartmoor Inn, Merrivale 🥤

🧭🍃🗺️🌼🐾🌳🐝🌊🌸🐴🐶💚🍃🥾☀️
Would you like to walk on Dartmoor more often and need a confidence boost to explore new places? Have memories faded of how to use your map and compass and you’d like a refresher? Or to learn more advanced navigation techniques?

Join friend and mountain leader Verran and I on Saturday 28th March to visit a Dartmoor that’s off the beaten track, a day to help regain your confidence to visit places you’ve never been to before. Providing both a reminder of how to use your map and compass, and an opportunity to to discover other ways to feel your way through the landscape - natural navigation (feeling and seeing the landscape). Experience how to always know where you are and how to get to where you’d like to be, whatever the weather!

To Book & more info - https://www.dartmoorsdaughter.com/public-walks/walk-navigation-intermediate-march-26

18/03/2026

Beautiful morning for a creative, brainstorming stroll, inviting the land to inspire our creative thinking towards future outdoor workshop possibilities. More to come on this later in the year….

In the meantime, the ancestors of Dartmoor revealed themselves in a small piece of worked flint…always an exciting find for me! What do you think it was - an arrowhead or just debitage?

(I’ve reported the find of course along with the location in case of future archaeological research/digs)

Thank you Hannah for the invitation, great questions, and company
14/03/2026

Thank you Hannah for the invitation, great questions, and company

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