About Us

Trex was established formally in 2021, with the ambitions of sharing and encouraging outdoor freedom, from leading day's hiking on the Welsh hills or Cotswolds, to sitting around a campfire, sharing stories and skills.

We are a close, coordinated team of small-scale explorers, with passion for being outdoors, and finding or making new things.
We are led by the idea that EVERYONE should have more mini adventures, relearn forgotten skills, AND enjoy more time outside!
We want to share what we know, and inspire you to share it with others.

Our experience spans stormy nights on the moors, gentle rock-hopping in summer streams, woodland meanders, casual woodcrafts, and friendly, fireside group meals.
We have the enthusiasm and knowledge to provide an off-grid experience from a base camp with walking route options, to teach fundamental, traditional outdoor skills.
Our aim is to seed inspiration, confidence and balance, for whatever's around the next corner.


Chief Dino Wrangler
Elyot
Founder and UK outdoor explorer of 20+ years.

Expeds, bushcraft lead, and natural snack ID.
IOL Bushcraft Competency Certificate. Outdoor First Aid. DBSe.
(The Dino Leader)

LIKES: ID'ing and eating things and understanding "why" about everything.
DISLIKES: plans without flexibility.
Dino Support Team
dinoleader-morgan dinoleader-rich
Sammi
Chief Inspiration Officer and activity tester.

Challenges + direction-setting

LIKES: fires, fireside chat, puzzles.
DISLIKES: lots of mud.
Andy B
Outdoor STEM learning specialist.

Equipment, passtimes + photo ops.

LIKES: new things and teaching them to others.
DISLIKES: being told what to do!
Morgan
Course development + demos.

Wholeheartedly practical, whatever the weather.

LIKES: any time outdoors.
DISLIKES: writing things down.
Rich
All round reliable support.

He's there for what you need, happy to talk, and with experience in most things.

LIKES: sociable activities, and woodlands.
DISLIKES: rushing.


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Badges and Memberships...


Member of the Institute for Outdoor Learning
& Bushcraft Professional Practice Group
ITC Level 3 Award in Outdoor First Aid
RFQ Level 3 Bushcraft Competency
UK Gov Enhanced DBS Check




Our Origin Story...

From years enjoying free-roaming hikes as a child, to ongoing hikes and camps with adult friends, the idea of Trex Explore became increasingly clear, stemming from a desire for sharing and encouraging outdoor freedom, with companions, and for finding interesting things on the way (like "what is that plant and what can we do with it", "what's on and over that hill", and "who do you think was here 100 years ago").

The purpose and driver of early camping and hiking "outings" being for better mental welfare, taking opportunities to reset, and to regain an understanding and connection with our natural environment.
Our personal skills and interests varied, yet we were all focused on understanding the life and resources around us (for outdoor living and off-grid survival, such as foraging, shelter and campfires), and we also realised how much we appreciated each others' motivation.

Some ideas kept recurring, during the early, regular, overnight and low-key camps around the UK with groups of extended friends:

  1. we all enjoyed a day's gently hike with small challenges, thought-provoking discussion on the way, and the following time sat around a campfire
  2. we needed to do more of this, for our physical and mental welfare
  3. that more people would probably enjoy the same thing (and maybe wanted a guide)
  4. and that this was a passion which we enjoyed sharing (with the recurring idea of "what if this was an actual day-job").

In 2021, Trex became a limited company, to be able to offer "wild guide and bushcraft" expertise officially, with insurance cover, first aid, and adjacent skill training via the Institute of Outdoor Learning.
This also introduced a wider community of bushcrafters, explorers, craftspeople, and teachers, to continue professional development with.

We are proud to offer a wide and flexible set of outdoor skills + learning experiences, and to arrange activities and outings in some truly awe-inspiring UK landscapes.
We have been compared to being "like forest school or scouts for adults", which sounds good to us!

If we can teach you some fundamental and forgotten outdoor skills, which inspire you to spend more time off-grid in the wild, then we think we're doing exactly the right thing.

We enable you to enjoy new adventures!


Our rationale, purpose and what we think makes the ideal excursion...

   

1. Explore...
...go somewhere new, or in a different way!

We endeavour to make your outing fun and to introduce unique perspectives with small personal challenges.
 
 

2. Back to basics interactions...
...small social groups plus natural environment.

A chance to switch off, slow down and appreciate the world around you, with no pressure.

We don't insist that you abandon your smartphone entirely, but we do think it's best to enjoy the wilds without having screens always visible.

3. Freedom...
...to go, to think, to do or to just be.

We enjoy and encourage physical and mental freedom.
Our aim is to enable that as your guides.
Play, pause, have fun, relax!

It rejuvinates us all and sparks new thoughts.
 
 

4. Fundamental Know-how...
...picking up forgotten skills and knowledge.

Reminders to pause and look at what's around us, and reintroduction of some forgotten, basic skills of human-kind, all of which are actually enjoyable and rewarding.
It could be practical fire making, navigation, plant and tree ID or how to play simple games together.



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