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Our official (and PC) motto is “Adventure is a Mindset”. But, as time has gone on, a more colloquial version has come into being.
“Doing cool shit with cool people”
That’s really what it’s all about! We love the outdoors. Whether it’s in the woods, on the mountains, under the ocean, in the arctic, in the desert, or in the jungle, it’s all our bag!
But you know what’s even better, sharing that love with other people!
We started Maddog Adventures as a means to get out and do what we love doing best. When you’re young it’s easy to throw on a pack and go on an adventure. As you get older and families enter the picture it gets harder, especially when it comes to the family budget! It was at this point we had a lightbulb moment. If we take other people with us, we get to go for free!
Along our journey we’ve met a few other like-minded individuals. There’s Matt, our favourite jungle nut, Andy who acts as the responsible adult for the TV survival people, Tom who’s jumped out of more aeroplanes than we’ve had hot dinners, or Dion who is on a mission to get more BAME people out into the wild. All of them share the same ethos. They just want to do cool shit with cool people.
Now our clients come into the picture. We’re really lucky that we seem to attract very likeminded people. They’re looking for an adventure and definitely up for some fun! A number of them have become firm friends and have come back to us multiple times.
One of the things we attribute to this is the way we run our courses. We’ve all experienced the kind of them and us attitude where we are definitely the student and MUST look up to the instructor. Stuff that! Everyone has something to add to the party. We’ve learned plenty from our clients over the years. As far as we’re concerned, when you come on one of our courses you’re out with some friends who just know a bit more than you do.
Another strong part of our offering is our focus on teamwork. When you’re on an exped you have to work as a team. We’ve seen too many courses where the people on them turn up, do the course, and then go home without talking to each other! Our courses are very much designed with teamwork at their core. This encourages everyone to get stuck in, and forms a bond. Plenty of our customers have got together with others they have met on our courses and gone off to have their own adventures. We love it!
The final piece of the puzzle is the campfire. We always have a good hearty meal at the end of the day. With a full tummy and a warm fire you always feel all is right with the world. Add in some stories from the team (some of them are even true), and a good bit of banter, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for a great evening. Sitting and chatting around the fire lets people digest the day’s learning, pick our brains, share tips, and forge new friendships. We love the campfire so much that we have a couple of get-togethers throughout the year where we invite back our past clients to just come and hang out in the woods. In fact if you’ve been on any of our courses you’re more than welcome to come and join us when we’re running a course to come and practice your skills.
We’re not a bushcraft company. None of us sit in the woods carving spoons and learning 64 different knots. Our ethos lies firmly with expeditions. We want to give people the skillset to go out and have adventures of their own. We’ll take complete novices who have never slept outside before to seasoned outdoors people looking to hone their skills. It’s all about continual learning. There’s always something new to learn. We’re always looking to learn as much as pass knowledge onto our clients.
As for our expeditions, well we go and do some amazing stuff in amazing places. Whether it’s in the jungle in Malaysia or Brunei, in the Arctic, on the mountains, or (soon) in the desert, we’re ready to help you have the trip of a lifetime and create some amazing memories. We’re very up front that there is a fair bit of type 2 fun involved, but you’ll look back on it and be really proud of what you achieved. We must be doing something right because we’ve got a bunch of last year’s jungle group coming with us again to Brunei next year!
So if you’ve ever wanted to get out into the outdoors and not been sure where to start. Or, you want to do something meaningful to celebrate a milestone in your life, give us a shout! You can come with us on one of our expeds, or we can support you through our adventure consultancy to create your own adventure.
Hope to see you around the campfire soon!
