Name:
| Dave Thomas |
Full Time Job:
| Freelance Outdoor Instructor |
Age: | 39 |
Outdoor Qualifications: | Single Pitch Award
Mountain Bike Instructor Award
BCU UKCC Level 1 Paddlesports Coach
REC Emergency First Aid |
Other Qualifications: | B.A. (Hons) Photography |
How long have you been working in the outdoor industry? | 10 yrs, maybe more |
What did you do previously? | Engineer / Photographer / Climbing Bum |
What’s your biggest achievement to date? | Being flown out to Tunisia to DJ in front of a big crowd at “El Pacha” |
What do you love most about your job? | Seeing people have a great time and being outdoors in such a beautiful place |
What do you like least about your job? | Mmmm, rain! |
What do you do for fun? | PARTY |
What’s your ultimate ambition? | To climb 8a |
What’s your favourite… | |
…climb/walking route, etc? | “The Axe” on Cloggy |
…river/paddling venue, etc? | ??? |
…book? | 2 authors I enjoy, Hunter S Thompson and Haruki Murakami |
…film? | “Layer Cake” & “The Big Blue” I can watch over and over! |
…song? | “Cocaine Diana” by Kid Loco followed by hundreds of fat house tunes! |
Something not a lot of people know about you: | Was it a) I have a Fine Arts degree in Photography; b) I was a 2nd Lieutenant in Oxford University's Officer Training Corps or c) neither? |
Anything else interesting about you? | I think that’s quite enough now, don’t you? |
