I’M Richard Langlais
Personal Hiking Coach, Guide and Teacher
Helping You Become a Hiker and Walk Your Own Dream Hike
Personal Hiking Coaching
I am here to help you become a hiker and guide you to finding your own style and learn about how to prepare and plan for the Dream Hikes that you want to take, to create life-long experiences.
Building Your Experience
Change your life through hiking. Improve your skills, enrich your friendships, experience new places through the ultimate form of slow travel, and do it your way, in your time, in your style.
Helping You Change Your Life by Adding Glow to Every Single Day
Unlock Your Full Potential. Say Hello to THE NEW YOU
Hiking is a wonderful activity that provides endless benefits. It can change your life! It's one of the best ways to bring your glow back! Hiking opens up a whole new world of memories, as soon as you open your door and step outside. It offers more than just a healthy, heart-strengthening form of physical activity, but also a mentally-satisfying, enriching and refreshing way to create endless memories. Your new lifestyle is waiting; it's ready for you to step into. Take control of your life and have new experiences to look forward to, every single day, and in the years to come. I will help you prepare for that, every step of the way, and along the path, too!
Are you bored with all the free time you have?
Your need to connect with nature is buried somewhere deep in the past?
Everyone is too busy to spend time with you? Those friends you thought you had all disappeared when you left your job?
Fill the gap in your life with an activity for life: hiking! I look forward to showing you the way to take control and get out the door into your new life. This is something you can do!
Helping You Plan Your Hikes
Planning is easy and fun. I will help you think of what you need, how to plan a route, how to adjust your plans, and judge what's ahead of you.
Who will you hike with? Alone or in a group?
Walking alone and walking in groups are different. Which do you prefer? What are things to think about? My long experience as a guide will help you think through your preferences.
Motivation Management
Your first motivation may be driven from the desire to change your life. Hiking is attractive, but how can you take the first steps, then keep going, longer, farther, happier? As a trained coach with a PhD in human ecology, I have a full career of helping people reach their goals, and staying with them.
En Route Trip Consultation
Even when you are on your hike, you may have questions on which you might want help, or guidance. We can arrange that I am on call during your entire walk, so that you can feel the security of knowing that advice is never far away. In some cases, you may arrange for me to walk with you.
What does a Hiking Coach help you with?
Who's a Hiking Coach for?
A Hiking Coach helps you discover how to enrich your life and take control of your free time. So you can feel good about your decision. To help you make sure your hiking gives you the satisfaction you're looking for. To help you feel that your effort to do something worthwhile is rewarded with your wonderful memories and rich experiences. A Hiking Coach is for anybody who feels they need to do something valuable with their time. But aren't sure how to do it. A Hiking Coach is for people who want help to become good hikers, to avoid mistakes, and to be able to continue their hiking for many years to come.
Helps you find all the planning information YOU need in less than 30 minutes (so YOU know what to do to get out the door!)
Shows YOU how to implement YOUR planning even if you've never hiked a day in YOUR life (and experience YOUR life as it changes every day, right in front of YOUR eyes!)
How to decide whether to hike alone or with a partner or in a group (and arrange it WITHOUT any problems!)
How to know what YOU prefer and plan accordingly (and get back to putting yourself in control and experiencing what YOU choose!)
How to choose problem-free hiking equipment. Gear is all about YOU and what YOU need (YOUR plans, preferences, preparations and partners are all part of this . . . IT'S YOU WHO'S IN CONTROL!)
About Me
My name is Richard Langlais. I am passionate about hiking and helping others to discover and experience how wonderful it is. In over 45 years of guiding people in exploring their own potential to live creative and wonderful lives, I've realised that helping others is my most rewarding activity. That's why I want to guide you to finding your own path, with hiking as the method and the action.
In my early years, I lived in the Canadian Rockies, exploring thousands of kilometres of wilderness trails for weeks at a time, both alone and with others. I worked as a guide for the national parks service, where helping others came naturally. I saw how people lit up when they were introduced to nature's wonders and their own ability to experience them.
After extensively exploring (on foot) the Himalaya, eastern Tibet, Greenland, the circumpolar Arctic, much of Europe and the Nordic countries, I've decided to dedicate the rest of my life to helping others. I know that showing and helping others how to develop their own capacity to explore and enjoy the wide world of nature will be the best way to pass on all the knowledge and wisdom that I have accumulated and refined. I would love to talk with you about this, and hear what your thoughts are, to learn what you would like to experience, and how I can help you towards that dream. You can dare to wish for My Dream Hike to really happen!
Testimonials
“I tell you, before Richard got me hiking, the sofa and the TV remote were the centre of my daily life. I hardly ever went out the door, and I found myself out of breath even going up the stairs. I avoided the mirror, because my skin was so pale and dull, and the weighing scale just gathered dust. Now I've made lots of new friends on my hikes. We keep in touch and sometimes do trips together. I can actually walk through beautiful countryside for days at a time now. And I just keep thinking how I got my glow back! My kids are always phoning me to find out about my latest adventures and they say they'll be joining me on the trail soon. Richard's always available for advice when I need to buy new equipment and I never would have gotten to where I am now without his help.”
“One of my lifetime dreams was to walk the pilgrim trail to Santiago de Compostela, in Spain. It seemed to be so fulfilling and challenging. Finally, when I was almost 80, I managed to travel to the beginning of the Spanish section, and began walking. On the first day, there is an enormous climb over the Pyrenees and I'd never done anything like that before, and my knees started bothering me. This tall fellow came up behind me and asked if he could help. That was Richard, of course. He was so calm and asked if he could give me some tips, so that my knees wouldn't be so strained. It worked immediately, and we kept walking together. Every day he taught me a new tip that made all the difference. Without his help I never would have fulfilled this dream, and since then I consult with him regularly.”
“My husband and I used to travel like crazy. We got so burned out trying to tick off all the boxes on our bucket list. . . We were so exhausted and that's when I simply stopped doing anything interesting. When I met Richard, he introduced us to slow travel, via hiking, and since then my husband and I have explored all around the world, but in a whole other way, and we never want to stop. You see and experience so much more when you're moving through on foot. Now we check in with Richard whenever we want to try a new kind of hike, or a longer one, just to make sure we're doing everything right, right from the beginning. I'm sure my husband and I would have become totally bored if we'd never taken up this new lifestyle and with Richard as our personal coach.”
Online Coaching Resources
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Change Your Life Through Hiking
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