What I’ve been reading this week, 28 June 2019
It’s been another great week for online reads, on a variety of topics from Everest to haiku. Long-distance walking The case for hiking with a heavy pack –…
It’s been another great week for online reads, on a variety of topics from Everest to haiku. Long-distance walking The case for hiking with a heavy pack –…
Is this an essay about solastalgia, automation, landscape, history, or just a little tale about a walker and an owl? I don’t know, but I hope you enjoy…
One consequence of staying away from Twitter is that my to-be-read queue of articles is a lot smaller, but I’ve still picked up a number of interesting reads…
At seven o’clock in the morning I emerge from the patchwork of woodland bordering Gunby Park. These stands of trees, interconnected by hedges and thickets, semi-wild, are undergoing…
January 2017 saw me start a habit that changed my life: I started walking five miles every morning before breakfast. Two and a half years later, it’s time…
Women who walk or run solo, death and power in the Highlands, mental health and mountains, and the value of close observation… Long-distance walking TGO Challenge 2019: the…
I haven’t dropped off the face of the planet, although I have decided to suspend all personal social media activity for a while. It’s seven o’clock, and I’d…
It’s been an interesting week for online outdoor writing, skewed heavily by the UKWildCamp controversy – but I’ve picked up a few other nuggets on long-distance backpacking, mountaineering,…
It isn’t really about technology at all. In January 2019, when attempting to explain why I felt compelled to leave the internet behind for my winter Cape Wrath…