Reverence
Have the majority of humans collectively lost our sense of reverence for the wild? For environments we are not actively managing? Has sci-tech been a significant driver of that loss?
Tag: outdoor activities
Gratitude
How easy is it to get sucked into thinking that your body looks wrong while forgetting what your body can do? How do you get your head out of that space? It’s hard but the outdoors helps.
Finding Your Path
We’re all looking for our path, including when we are staggering up a steep slope covered with tree fall. However, there’s nothing that beats the satisfaction of getting to the top of the mountain.
Mullygrubbing
Mullygrub – an excellent word with a four-hundred-year etymology that has taken it from referring to a headache to referring to an Australian bowling an underarm cricket ball. Or is that the same thing?
To Know or Not to Know
What does one need to know? World news? Election results? The names of flowers? Or just the number of kilometres to your destination?
Deliberation and Determination
Ski touring is a relatively risky activity. We had a trip planned but deliberated mightily over snow conditions, including likelihood of avalanches. Should we go? Luckily we did.
Safety Systems
Safety systems have a place – how can we be safe enough but not have a safety surfeit?
Trials & Tribulations When Bikepacking in Georgia
Sometimes you just have to go. But what do you do when there isn’t an appropriate place to go?
Tourism & Colonialism
What do tourism and colonialism have in common? Plenty, I reckon. Time for New Zealand to have a think about this as we consider one is essential to our economy and the other is abhorrent.
Limit Screws
Bike derailleurs come with limit screws to stop chain ‘going off the rails’. Unfortunately, humans and societies don’t come with similar, easily adjustable limiting mechanisms.