Category Archives: adventure

Banff Mountain Film Festival 2024

Get some Banff stoke into your day! ❝ The 2024 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is a celebration of the mountain and adventure sport world. Sharing over 2 1/2 hours of the most exhilarating short films from explorers, runners, … Continue reading

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Protected: 2024 Adventure Ideas

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Dark humour

Dark humour is found in most groups participating in high risk and adventurous activities. It is used as an active mechanism to control panic, suppress fear, an increase the chance of survival. ❝ Some high-angle rescue workers call body bags … Continue reading

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Extremely Difficult and Untracked Bushwalking – Arid

❝ Practice Mentorship and Skill-Sharing Between Peers From plant identification and navigation to knowing the best snacks to bring on a hike, countless skills exist within any given group. Everyone has a unique experience and approach to the outdoors. There … Continue reading

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Protected: Penny stoves – was that really the issue?

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You can’t have adventure without taking risks

The Delivering Adventure Podcast by Chris Kaipio & Jordy Shepherd, has a couple of really good episodes covering risk in adventure. 🎧 Episode 17: Understanding Risk & Adventure with Grant Statham (2022-Nov-26) 🎧 Episode 18: Managing Risk in Adventure with … Continue reading

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Explorer / Survival

Two books from the read pile this month dealing with exploration, survival, and boundary areas. Benedict Allen – Explorer: The Quest for Adventure Laurence Gonzales – Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

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Safety is Dangerous

Safety is Dangerous: Spike Edwards | TEDxSantaBarbara ❝ as we look at the foundations of the three mission-critical elements we’ve listened to train for stupid and we’ve looked at taking calculated risks, the last one is essential, and the third … Continue reading

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Breaking down risk

Breaking down risk: Steve Fisher | TEDxAthens ❝ But you can’t use any of these tools until you demystify risk. We can mitigate risks purely by understanding them. And the way that we understand them is we take a seemingly … Continue reading

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BARCOM 2022, X2

As a Collingwood supporter it is not unusual to go and watch a game of football where the club has all their star players on the field and yet the magic doesn’t occur, and you walk away wondering what happened. … Continue reading

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