Tag: education
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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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Picking the Right Trails to Run
This article was originally written for the Snowy’s Blog (find it here). I’m pretty keen on getting more people interested in trail running so was motivated to ensure that beginner trail runners don’t have a ‘f*** this, it’s all too hard’ experience when heading out for the first time. As such, enjoy the article, head…
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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…
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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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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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