Outdoor Activities
Using the wealth of experience and qualifications held by our committed team of instructors, who are passionate about the outdoors, Mobex North East can offer you and your group an extensive range of exciting, challenging outdoor activities.
There simply is something for everyone including:
STOP PRESS...STOP PRESS...MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAINING COURSES
FIRETRACK - LEARN TO MOUNTAIN BIKE
SECTION A
Navigation: Know where to ride, legal and access points
Equipment: Saddle height, suitable clothing and equipment
Maintenance: Pre-ride bike check
SECTION B
Environmental: Be aware of the ompact of the activity
Safety: Have been informed of the mountain bike code
SECTION C
Cornering: Ride through a slalom course and a course including a straight and two bends
Pedalling and Gears: Be able to select the correct gear. Pedal whilst standing and whilst sitting
Braking: Use front and rear brakes effectively
Climbing: Ride up a short gentle incline
Descending: Ride down a moderate slope
Obstacles: Drop off a curb 100mm high and ride over a 50mm high obstacle
Other Skills: Clubs, activities and publications
SECTION D
Mountain Bike Ride: Complete a ride of at least 5km off road
MUDDY PUDDLE - IMPROVING TECHNIQUES
SECTION A
Navigation: Identity access from maps
Equipment: Frame size and length; equipment needed
Maintenance: Repair a puncture
SECTION B
Environmental: Responsibilities to other countryside users and the environment
Safety: Working knowledge of the mountain bike code
SECTION C
Cornering: Basic technique and line choice
Pedalling and gears: Use gears correctly and know which gears should not be used
Braking: Stop without skidding from a moderate speed
Climbing: Ride up a moderate slope without standing
Descending: Ride down a moderate slope showing good body position
Obstacles: Drop off a curb 150mm high and ride over a 75mm high obstacle
Other Skills: Mountain bike competitions
SECTION D
Mountain Bike Ride: Complete two rides of at least 15km mostly off road
ROCK AND ROOT - ADVANCED TERRAIN AND KNOWLEDGE
SECTION A
Navigation: Simple navigation using a map
Equipment: Check for worn components
Maintenance: Adjustments of brake and gear cables, repair chain
SECTION B
Environmental: Further responsibilities to the environment
Safety: Knowledge of first aid
SECTION C
Cornering: Technieuq and line for a moderately fast corner
Pedalling and gears: Select correct gears appropriate to different terrain
Balance: Ride an off camber trail
Braking: Stop without skidding within 6m from a moderate speed
Climbing: Ascend a rough slope showing good balance without stopping
Descending: Ride down a steep slope showing good body position and braking
Obstacles: Ride over a 100mm high obstacle
Other Skills: Ride through a watercourse without stopping
SECTION D
Mountain Bike Ride: Complete three rides of at least 20km over mixed terrain
Canoeing & Kayaking
Whether you want to enjoy a relaxing cruise across a calm river or you want to turn things up a notch and battle against the thrills of whitewater, canoeing and kayaking can offer you a challenging adventure.
An exciting team building activity, which helps improve skills of communication and helps build self confidence and trust in others.
Canoeing in teams of two...
...or try individual kayaking!
Mountain Biking
Climbing
Having a goal in your mind, working as hard as you can to achieve this goal, overcoming fears and frustrations while your team mates encourage you from below - that's the challenge climbing offers you!
Conquering the climb, reaching the top of the climbing wall or rock face provides a sense of achievement, increasing self esteem and self confidence, whilst also helping to develop team working skills.
We offer outdoor rock climbing...
...and we also offer an indoor alternative!
Abseiling
As with climbing, abseiling offers you the chance to do something totally different and new, the opportunity to overcome your fears and frustrations to achieve a personal goal.
Conquering the abseil, reaching the ground with your group cheering you on and encouraging you, provides a true sense of achievement, increasing self esteem and helping develop communication and team building skills.
Walking
Indulge yourself in a relaxingly paced walk around some of the North East's most beautiful countryside, taking in the wonderful scenery our region has to offer. If you want to step the challenge up a level, your walk can be more intensive, including rougher terrain, rocks and boulders and up hill treks.
Time spent in such peaceful surroundings can allow young people the opportunity to reflect on themselves and give them space to think.
Gorge Walking, Ghyll Scrambling and Waterfall Jumping
Jumps, slides, tunnels, waterfalls - you want excitement, you've got it with this collection of fun water based activities. Be prepared to get wet wet wet!
Building self confidence, self esteem, communication and trust in others, this activity also offers the opportunity to try something completely new, an experience to remember!
Waterfalls... 
Jumps... 
Wading
Caving, Mining, Mine Exploration and Weaselling
Journey underground for an exciting adventure exploring deep dark caves and tight squeezing tunnels!
You and your group will slither over slippery rocks, crawl through tiny tunnels and have a lot of fun as you work together to ensure that everyone successfully gets past every obstacle in the underground mazes.
Explore heritage and the environment whilst building communication skills and trust in others on this team building adventure to remember!
Some of the tunnels allow you to walk through them...
Others are more of a tighter squeeze!
Be prepared to get wet and dirty!
Shelter Building
Work as a team to gather suitable natural materials to be used to construct a shelter in the woods!
Branches, twigs and logs can be used as sturdy supports...
Grass, soil and leaves can be used to cover the wooden structure
Making the most of the completed shelter!
Team Building, Problem Solving Games, Orienteering
Working as part of a team on a specific task, fulfilling your own role to the best of your ability to ensure that the final outcome is the best it can be for the group as a whole, is what team building is all about!
Mobex North East has a substantial catalogue of team building and problem solving challenges, which have been designed to meet the specific needs of individual groups. Our exercises are seen as a non-threatening way to help groups build up relationships of trust and to help develop leadership and team work skills.
Rope puzzles
And we can also offer more physical problem solving activities!
For more details on what we can offer you and your group, please give us a call on 0191 2302830.
Raft Building
Working together to build a raft from scratch, using materials you aren't familiar with, in order to use your finished product for a journey across a lake or river helps groups build team work and communication skills as well as providing a sense of achievement.
Starting with the raw materials...
Working together to constuct the raft...
And enjoying a group raft trip to celebrate success!
Archery
Based at Mobex Headquarters, archery will offer you and your group a focussed challenge combining physical strength with mental agility! You will learn the art of archery, how to handle the bow and arrows, how to aim at the target and how to conduct the activity in a safe, respectful manner. This activity helps develop listening and communication skills as well as bringing the group together to learn an activity that is new to everyone!
Who knows, you might even hit the bullseye!
Foil Fencing
Mental and physical agility are again key skills for foil fencing. Combining physical exercise with focussed concentration, fencing promotes the development of listening and concentration skills while giving your body an intensive work out!
Working in pairs, fencing will highlight to groups the importance of trust and team work skills in a task that relies on respect for others and a lot of self discpline .
Ready to face the challenge? En Guarde!
Snorkelling
INFORMATION TO FOLLOW
Overnight Residentials
(Including Shelter Building, Turkish Yurt, Native American Tipi)
Mobex North East can offer you and your group the chance to get away from it all on a residential!
Our residential programmes are designed to meet the exact needs of your group with regards to time scales and activities.
We have a wealth of knowledge of residential centres throughout the North East region and in the Lake District and can offer you and your group an action packed couple of days full of thrilling adventures and arts challenges whilst surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery in the country.
You decide the focus and duration of the residential as well as the kind of activities you and your group would like to participate in.
For the more adventurous groups who would like to push themselves further, we can offer camping residentials and shelter building expeditions, which allow teambuilding and communication skills to develop not only during activities but throughout the entire residential experience!
And if you really want a residential to remember, why not try staying overnight in our Turkish Yurt or Native American Tipi!
For more details on the residentials Mobex can offer you and your group, give us a call on 0191 2302830.
Here at Mobex North East, we are always looking for new and exciting activities to offer groups!
If there is anything you have in mind that we currently do not provide, please give us a call on 0191 2302830 to see if there's anything we can do!
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A excellent form of exercise, mountain biking offers you the opportunity to sample some of the North East’s bike tracks, tackling different types of terrain and encountering natural obstacles.
Technical ability, coordination, communication and self confidence are all tested and developed with this activity.
Here, some of the Mobex staff team tackle technical terrain...