Blog Archive - July 2014
31st Jul 2014 An Alaskan Madman
Yesterday I asked for people to send in their best hith hiking stories. My Dad sent this one through... This isn’t baloney; it’s true in every last detail. October, 1991. Haines Junction,...
30th Jul 2014 Couch Surfing, Hitch Hiking & Ironman Karma
When I was a kid I remember it was a common sight to see people by the road side with a big rucksack and piece of cardboard, thumb out, and looking friendly if not desperate. Hitching was also...
17th Jul 2014 Welsh 3,000ers Run
Not many summers go by without an attempt at some challenge or other. Previously they've always been climbing related ones - starred HVSs at Stanage or Millstone for example - but this year it was...
11th Jul 2014 A Shift In Attitudes - Adventure Film Rental Comes Of Age?
First there were video tapes, then came DVDs which lasted a while and still exist in small numbers today. Blurays took over from DVDs at about the same time as digital files became available...
7th Jul 2014 Don't KNow What You've Got 'Till It's Gone
I remember listening to a song by that title as a teenager and applying it to all manner of things and thinking how true it was then. I'd re-write the phrase now as 'You don't know what you've...