Trail Tip Tuesday 🥾 · Recalibrate Outdoors

Trail Tip Tuesday 🥾

I've heard this one a hundred times. Mostly from people who've never stood in the rugged outdoors in horizontal rain with the wrong jacket on.

Here's my honest take: it's about 80% true.

Good kit can genuinely change what's possible. The right layers, the right boots, a decent waterproof — that can be the difference between a session that builds resilience and one that just makes people miserable and never want to come back outside again.

But the other 20%?

Sometimes the weather is just naff. Sometimes you're cold and uncomfortable even with good kit, and that's not a gear failure — that's just being outdoors 💁🏼‍♀️

The real stuff:

Learning to sit with that discomfort, rather than always engineering it away, is part of the point - Resilience.

So I'm going to push back on the saying slightly: there's no bad weather, only unprepared people who perhaps haven't learned to be a bit uncomfortable sometimes. Acceptance of the reality goes a long way in supporting a stronger mindset with this.

Where do you sit on this — >

🔵 kit fixes everything 🎒

🟢 some discomfort part of the deal 🤝

Video: Canal paddle trip with

@Will Holland

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Trail Tip Tuesday 🥾