Category: General Conversation
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The Ultrarunners Manifesto
Originally this was called the Skyrunners manifesto and I found it in Kilian Jornet’s book. Look him up. He’s the ultimate mountain athlete who is a badass skier, ski mountaineer and of course runner when it’s not ski season. He found the manifesto from somewhere and had it pinned to his door so he could…
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Melbourne Holiday
If Jack and Jill go up the hill to fetch a pail of water all the time, what do they do when they have had enough water and want a break? Or in my scenario, if I go outside from Monday – Sunday every week for work and pleasure what do I do for a…
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Reflections on ‘Wanderer’
One of my motivations for starting this website was to share information I’ve found useful as I discussed in my first blog post. With that disclaimer in mind, I’ve tried my hardest to stay away from the ‘influencer/click bait’ style self-help preacher person with the following discussion about a piece of text from Wanderer by…
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Why I bought my first house in Quorn
‘Congratulations on buying a house… but why did you decide to live in Quorn?’ This is the most common response I have received from Quorn locals, family and friends over the last few months when I’ve shared the news I purchased my first house in a small country town 4 hours north of Adelaide. On…
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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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