It’s easy to think that a hiking stick can be picked up from the forest floor and be an affable companion for you as you journey. It’s just a stick. Yet finding that straight branch with the right heft that gives that overwhelming feeling of connection is rare. Celebrate it if you find it. KeepContinue reading “Hiking stick timber choices. An Australian (Victorian) perspective.”
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Time to think philosophically about time
Sometimes when planning a walk with others, I have to gently remind and reinforce the rewards of investing a complete day in the endeavour. Invest time, Invest in yourself. Time is the only true commodity we have, and we have so little. Gift yourself 10 minutes 20 seconds and watch “To Scale:Time” . Be humbled.Continue reading “Time to think philosophically about time”
An Urban Tramp – Podcast
Not all walking journeys traverse a mountain range, watersheds or plains. Urban walking the green wedges of our cities offer us clues to those who inhabit the community one is passing through. You can take the temperature of society. The quality of the local creeks, the amount and type of litter you pick up, theContinue reading “An Urban Tramp – Podcast”
Personal Transformation through Long Distance walking
The Order is an enthusiastic proponent of distance walking. In the modern world it’s a hard sell to convince people to invest a day or days in a simple but long walking journey of which the fruits are mostly realised after the event and over time. This is a 2013 Australian study of long distanceContinue reading “Personal Transformation through Long Distance walking”
Leslie Stephen, “In Praise of Walking”
Sir Leslie Stephen’s essay “In Praise of Walking” was published in his four-volume collection of essays, Studies of a Biographer, which first appeared between 1898 and 1902.
Why does a hiking stick make a great gift for a young person in your life?
Send a deliberate message to your loved ones with the gift of a hiking stick.
A Journey On Country.
“Knowledge and skills trump equipment, so learn as much as you can” – Gordon Dedman, Bushcraft Survival Australia. Dangerous ideas are contained within. Enter at own risk. This essay addresses the modern dilemma of PLB’s, sat phones, personal responsibility, preparation and mortality. If you have ever thought about the olde ways on expedition, you should invest some time with this opinion piece.
Essay: What can a really long walk in the Alps teach you about life, fear and laziness?
Jonathan Arian’s reflections on a long walk
Quote: Robert Cortes Holliday
Holliday published fifteen books, including The Walking-Stick Papers (1918), Men and Books and Cities (1920), Literary Lanes and Other Byways (1925) “The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it” – Robert Cortes Holliday
Excerpt: Of Walks and Walking Tours. The Instinct for walking. By Arnold Haultain. Published 1914.
Another excerpt from Haultain’s 1914 text.
The Order Of Walkers 