Category: General Conversation
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A Week at Warren Gorge and the ‘New School Method’ to Rock Climbing Instruction
The aim of the game last week was to educate a couple of Year 11 Outdoor Ed classes on rock climbing at my home crag, Warren Gorge, with one class being Monday – Wednesday and the other being Wednesday – Friday. Fortunately for me there was enough supervision at the campsite each night that allowed…
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Should you stay or should you go… off-track
This piece was originally written for the Snowys Outdoors Blog and can be found in it’s original format by clicking on the link below. The aim was to encourage people to venture further into the bush in a safe and educated manner. Heading off-track has more risks but also more rewards provided you know what…
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Island Life
I have a list of things that I like doing. It’s a simple list, not very long, to refer to when I’m bored or need a quick pick-me up. Running, reading the newspaper, watching sport all rank pretty highly on the ‘the list’ and are activities that can usually be done anywhere anytime. ‘Island life’…
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When in doubt, refer to Friends.
There’s an episode of the TV sitcom Friends where Chandler decides to quit the gym. He’s having a bit of an issue going through with it so ropes in Ross to come and provide some emotional support. ‘Be strong‘ is Ross’s advice. Kind of ironic advice to receive when trying to quit the place that…
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Outdoor Ed?? More like bloody Life Ed.
Schools are a strange place. If you replace the word school with work and reimagine students as employees you’d be very worried about the levels of productivity going on at most workplaces/schools. What workplace has employees go from one 40 minute meeting to the next with 20 or so of their peers, usually at the…
Fraser Darcy 