I’ve just been watching footage of Kelly Slater’s new wave park in Abu Dhabi, and having seen this marvel of hydro-engineering alongside Slater and friends discussing which board is best for surfing it, I was struck by how far surfing – like most sports these days –...
As ever, humans ruin the thing they love When I first got involved in the ‘outdoors’ – in a previous century – it was pretty much a niche world that the general public knew little about.They saw hill walking and mountaineering as being for beardy types who liked to...
WHY EVERY CYCLIST SHOULD DO AT LEAST ONE BIG RIDE IN THEIR LIFE Before I start blatting on about ‘big rides’ I guess we should define what, exactly, a ‘big ride’ is. Personally, I’d consider it to be more about the time it takes than the distance covered, for two...
Climate crisis means quarter of European ski resorts face scarce snow | Climate crisis | The Guardian This stuff needs to be challenged. Why? Because it invariably focusses on the worst-case scenario and uses that as the headline and the hook for the entire piece. The...
The first in a series of loosely considered gibberish on the ‘climate debate’. SCOURING PADS That loveable wee pixie Greta Thunberg and all the other miserabilist eco-warriors would have us believe that the only way to solve the ‘climate crisis’ (note –...
