Espresso
Bristol Airport
Flight
Alicante
Car
The Orange House ....
That bloody ridge .....
Allez allez
February 25, 2012
February 20, 2012
Help me Boab !!!!!
A sorry state of affairs ....
"Staff from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs national park, in Scotland, say they are routinely asked for the postcode for the top of Ben Lomond mountain, from people trying to reach the 3,196ft summit using only a car sat nav."
A brilliant quote from Brecon MRT ....
Mark Jones, deputy leader of the Brecon Beacons mountain rescue team, which had its busiest ever year in 2011, said: "We have always had people who are unprepared but technology means there are now more ways to be unprepared.
Yet more research in to what we already knew ....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/9090729/Warning-over-decline-in-map-skills-as-ramblers-rely-on-sat-navs.html
If you would like to learn how to read a map or need a refresher day, you need to contact an expert that holds a Nationally recognised qualification such as the Summer Mountain Leader Award or the Mountaineering Instructor Award or Certificate. If you are confused by all of the jargon, look under "contacts" at
www.thepathlesstravelled.co.uk and i will either sort out some learning or skills refresher myself, or direct you to another professionally qualified person in your area.
Heed the advice in the BBC article, there are many issues with using electronic and or GPS enabled devices in the mountains, especially in an emergency.
Sailing away ....
"we're going sailing, we may be some time" in search of "concrete rather than abstract stresses".
Amazing adventure of 36 years at sea.
http://ow.ly/1GHEQB
February 19, 2012
Whodunnit ?
I was out and about today sorting locations and resources for navigation lessons, checking some trails on the Cotswolds and in some local country parks for Nordic Walking lessons and ....
..... and then i happened across a very sad crime scene. Only the victims hat remained.
On closer inspection, as well as yielding the finest Early Silurian strata in England, the undergrowth was hiding a suspect with a unique aroma ....
February 17, 2012
Thankyou
Following the Johnny Dawes lecture at the Warehouse Climbing Wall that i sponsored last month, The Path Less Travelled just sent £450 to Hope and Homes for Children. Thanks everyone !!
The Big (waistline) Society
Another gear change up in the growing race to re-establish the outdoors as the best place for us all to play. On on.
If you suffer from "nature defecit disorder" there is an instant cure on the other side of that door.
Is it just me, or does terming lack of outdoors activity, a "disorder" open up a whole unnecessary can of worms with somebody making money from treatments and counselling. Collectively, we need to be a "big society" with reference to our hearts and helpfulness, in facilitating people of all ages to play outside. Rather than chinning it off and becoming a big waistline society.
A return to being free range humans is needed.
February 16, 2012
Slowly Sidetracked Away
We travel, explore and adventure to slow down, to savour the experience and to escape the tweetfaceblogwebsmshecticspace place.
So it makes nothing but sense to create a work of word and photography art that also favours time and effort over fire and forget.
Sidetracked is that work of art. It is free, it is beautifully detailed. It deserves to be printed on exquisite quality paper with the finest inks and to grace the coffee tables and thinking spaces of anyone with itchy feet.
http://ow.ly/1GpRD2
February 15, 2012
Centrally Heated Indoor Learning
Can be a horrible ailment.
A year of brilliant free outdoor play ideas from Nature Detectives. Dear school kids, ask your parents to print them off then take them to school and hand them to all those fans of centrally heated indoor learning that live in the Staff Room.
http://ow.ly/1Gmb2h
Nature Detectives (part of The Woodland Trust). The best free fun outdoor learning resource in Britain. Bar none.
