Adventure? One ticket please

My brother got out from his seat, gave me a nudge as he passed over me and grabbed his bag from the rack above us. I stood to and grabbed mine, the silence was representative of the anxious feeling growing in both of us.

As the train started to slow and pull in to the small station, we took our place in the queue forming by the train doors.

We walked out of the station and toward the small amass of boats bobbing aimlessly by the key side. The plan was simple really – go to Mallaig, Inverness-Shire, get a boat over to the Knoydart peninsular, explore it, then go home.

In our case, it was more then one ticket to find adventure, involving more time spent on trains then actually on the trail. Still, the experience will stay with me forever, the memories, the thrill of a new place, new to me.

Its a common miss-conception that we have to go far from our homes for adventure. When commonly it is so close. Wilderness for example, can often be achieved by spending 1 hour in your car, driving in the right direction.

Still, http://www.BeOutHere.com gives you a platform for finding our next adventure, your wilderness, your adrenaline, your life affirming experiences where ever in the world you want to be.

Http://www.BeOutHere.com is the only resource for adventure travellers. Designed BY adventurers FOR adventurers.

With every country and state in the world covered and over 60 activities to choose from, Http://www.BeOutHere.com helps you to DISCOVER YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE.

Its Far from us, and Far from ideal

Im sure know where it is on the bottom of our blue planet.

Im sure you have watched programs on it and read reports about it.

But, just in case... here is another one for you...



One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica is thinning four times faster than it was 10 years ago

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8200680.stm

By David Shukman
Science and environment correspondent, BBC News

How To Uncover The Best Global Adventures

How can the modern adventure traveller find the right adventure amongst ever growing volumes of tour options, trip reports, and environmental incentives?

The adventure travel market is a fast-growing niche within the tourism sector. Adventure travellers can now find almost any adventure in any country of the world. Whether it be Caving in Afghanistan, Surfing in Fiji or Ballooning over the Serengeti, there is an adventure tour operator or adventure company to take you there.

Gone are the days when an adventurer would have to spend weeks planning his or her expedition with swiss-like precision. Modern-day operators will organise every detail of the trip, right down to the level of adrenaline you will experience.

Your choices in adventure travel are literally endless. Unsurprisingly there are hundreds of companies offering Safaris, Skiing Trips, Scuba Diving and much more. They exist in such numbers because each offers a slightly different service and every adventurer wants a different experience.

So what are adventure travellers really looking for? Surly for each individual the ideal experience is different. Some will want greener trips whereas others will yearn for really 'out-there' trips were the accommodation is a tent, not a 5-star hotel and the transport is a yak rather than an air-conditioned coach.

So, to uncover global adventure travel and the right experience for you, the answer is simple. Draw out a 3-part check list:

1. Experience,
2. Out-There Factor
3. Environment. For each part work out what you want from a trip.

Then read trip reports, operator reviews and speak to the adventure companies.

Your dream adventure trip is out there. Just make sure you know what you want before you book.


Author: Seb Mower is the Managing Director of beouthere.com ( http://www.beouthere.com) , helping every traveller to discover their next adventure ( http://www.beouthere.com/activity.php?country=0 ) .

AA Gill goes to the Arctic

My time in the Arctic seems to have been devalued, by a restaurant critic.

If it's any conciliation, I wore far fewer clothes, making me tougher. Yes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6716662.ece

The Adventures of Dave: Learn How To Skydive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bRf2RdGBVA

Dave learns a harsh lesson about skydiving without instruction!

Adventure Travel

Recently Will and I have been trying to find out what 'adventure travel' means to us.

On the surface of things it could be a sub-division of tourism. The practice of visiting somewhere new or interesting for a vacation. Only in this instance there has to be an element of adventure (a typically hazardous experience or activity). By this token, adventure travel is commercial, limited to those 25 days a year that you are released from work.

We don't think that this definition is fair or particularly useful. It is prohibitive and too far removed from what we perceive adventure travel to be.

We believe that it should be clear to any individual that you don't need to spend a fortune (if anything) to get the buzz and feelings of escape that adventure travel provides. It can be simple as walking the dog in a torrential downpour, biking your local trails at night or wild swimming in a nearby river.

Traditional packages have their place (if they didn't we couldn't exist). But during economic downturn or beyond vacation allowance there are ways to feed the adventuring appetite within you.

In our experience the stages to finding a local adventure include: 1. List your adventuring attributes (climber, biker, runner etc) 2. Buy a map of your area - identify where looks cool, out of the way and suitable for your chosen attribute and 3. GO. Go there in all weather conditions at all times of day.

Remember: the best things in life are free. Everything else can be found at beouthere.com

Discover Your Next Adventure

Our New Kayak, well, new to us anyway.

Its been said that there is something in the water in Danehill.

Something that makes most of the youth MAD with Adventure.

It seams only fair to get closer to what makes us mad. Closer to the water.

Its a thirst for Adventure that drives us, a need to find new challenges.

We love Sussex, all it has and all it is.

Ray Mears described sussex as having the best country side in the world.

We have Climbed it, We have Ridden it, now its time to Paddle it.


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