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?
Tag: outdoor activities
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.
Best Birthdays 2
Mountains and peanut butter crackers make for an excellent birthday – how happiness can stem from minimum options.
Breaking ranks
Vegetable gardens with long rows of identical plants look tidy but are they the best approach? I’m trying something different.
Singing & Biking
What is the similarity between singing and biking? In the learning, it turns out, as I discovered this week.