Back to the footwear conundrum I have been dealing with for the last… forever, I have tried my luck again with a pair of Inov8’s: the Race Ultra 290. I know I said I would be avoiding Inov8 shoes after my Cape Wrath Trail experience with the Trailroc 235 in 2015, but I had a […]
Gear review – Inov-8 Trailroc 235
I have mentioned in the past that my feet are wide, like flippers wide, and so finding footwear is a real nightmare. My search for suitable outdoors footwear is more of an epic quest rather than a search, and when I moved to minimalist shoes, it was no different. Mika is a huge fan of […]
How to not get bummed from a cancelled weekend outdoors
This weekend I was due to go for two nights and two days of camping, hiking and full outdoors immersion, but I’m not going. A combination of things such as health (my wife’s, not mine), poor planning (all mine this time) and some cold, cold weather (lacking on the gear front) means that my weekend […]
What acivities can you do outdoors?
We have already discussed the fact that we go outdoors to have fun, and as much as just being helicoptered to the middle of nowhere for a few hours with an icebox full of beers and snacks sounds great, most people want to actually do something when they are out – but what? The outdoors […]