Outdoor Educator, Adventure Sports Coach and Instructor Trainer
This is my first post in a series I’m planning to share on learning models I find useful. This model I call “Piles of Success”. I find it helps me understand the importance of initial experiences and structuring in the risk of failure as a learning process unfolds. I find people I’m working with also find it useful as a way of understanding a component of their own learning processes. Continue reading “Learning Models – Piles of Success”
Its winter here in Australia and that means sub zero conditions in the Southern Highlands and Snowy Mountains. Cold is the enemy of my Jetboil because as low temperature makes it more difficult for the gas in the canister to evaporate and the pressure is reduced.
So off to the internet to look for solutions. I was initially looking to see if there was an adaptor available to make the canister ‘remote’ in the way my old epigas alpine stove used to be. Instead I sumbled across a much cheaper DIY option that is genius in its simplicity – the Heat Exchange or HX Strip
Continue reading “Tips & Tricks -Upright Canister Stoves in Cold Conditions”
In this months Outdoor UAE my article is on ways to improve your first aid kit.
James has kindly produced a PDF version of the article for folks to download and use.
Enjoy
Ian
I’ve had a really interesting couple of days. Firstly my first radio experience on Thursday morning and then a day and a half helping out on the Adventure HQ shop floor. The radio was a completely new experience, the shop floor of an outdoor store was revisiting old experiences. Both were interesting and both great fun.
Continue reading “Interesting days- Radio Debute and Outdoor Retail Revisited”
Adventure is something I know I’m passionate about, I can feel myself get animated when I talk about it. It inspires me, motivates me, makes me laugh, smile or even cry when I see people affected by it. Looking back when it’s not in my life I feel unhappy, dissatisfied and ill at ease with myself although I often wont realise that’s what the probable cause is at the time.
I’ve never been much of a writer but generating the posts on this blog has been really interesting and now, for some reason, I feel a need to write about my thoughts on adventure. Not quite sure where this will go, where it will end or how it will be recieved (if I press the publish button of course). Guess its just a different kind of adventure! Let me know what you think in the comments at the end please 🙂 Continue reading “Lets talk about….. Adventure”
This is my solution to the problems of mobile phones for those of us who play outdoor games. Keep your smart phone safe by using a cheap phone, a waterproof case that works and 2 sim cards on one number. Continue reading “Top Tip #4- My ‘Adventure Phone’ solution for the UAE”
EDITED due to vodpod not working
“The “French Spider-Man” Alain Robert last night conquered the world’s tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa.
Continue reading “Frenchman climbs world’s tallest tower Burj Khalifa – World – Video – 3 News”
Today I was part of the team that evacuated an injured walker from high in Wadi Ghalila and I feel fortunate to have witnessed such selfless hard graft and co operation from the large team that completed the task so successfully. Continue reading “Successful evacuation of injured walker from Stairway to Heaven”
Yesterday afternoon (30/1/2011) a walker descending from the Stairway to Heaven, Wadi Ghalila, RAK, suffered lower limb injuries after falling in scree. Continue reading “Breaking News: Walker injured descending Stairway to Heaven, dozens of local mountaineers go to assist”
Ian Ganderton 