Author: Fraser Darcy
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How to Take Your Non-Outdoorsy Mate into the Outdoors
This post is a copy of an original blog post I wrote for the ‘Snowy’s’ blog. The original can be found here along with many other informative blogs about getting out and about. The aim of this post is obviously to inspire more people to try their hand at bushwalking in a way that doesn’t…
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Pre-Season
After the Christmas and New Year festivities I tend to always spend the month of January doing as much exercise as possible. I treat it like my own version of an AFL footballers ‘Pre-Season’ where I get out on the ‘track’ and ‘put the effort in’. It’s really an opportunity for me to just not…
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Drawing comparisons between Climbing and Tennis
I enjoy going rock climbing and I enjoy playing tennis. I also enjoy watching and reading about these two sports. There is a lot more content available on tennis then there is climbing and so I find myself watching a lot of tennis or reading about it and trying to apply some of the principles…
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My Hardest Climb
If you’re instructing climbing or talking to people who are new to climbing the one question that crops up most of the time is, ‘What’s the hardest climb you’ve done?’ It’s similar to asking a marathoner what their marathon time is, or a full-forward in Aussie rules footy what’s the biggest bag they’ve kicked. As…
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Memories of Bass Strait
When I started building this website one of the enjoyable tasks was sifting through old photos and being reminded of past trips. My most memorable sea kayaking trip was with 5 other mates paddling from Victoria to Tasmania across Bass Strait. I first heard about this being possible at school (from the teachers I would…
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