Microadventures

I have been fortunate over the years to have enjoyed some big adventures. There are plenty more to come. Click on the images to navigate to my different journeys. Or you could go out for a run. All options are good!

Microadventures.

A microadventure is an adventure that is short, simple, local, cheap – yet still fun, exciting, challenging, refreshing and rewarding.

As the world’s population becomes increasingly urbanised, busy, and stuck in front of a screen, microadventures offer a realistic escape to wilderness, simplicity and the great outdoors, without the need to ski to the South Pole or go live in a cabin in Patagonia. The appeal of microadventures is that they make adventure accessible to people who may have very little outdoor experience.

I hope that this page will answer most of the common questions I get asked from people looking to go on their first microadventure. If you have any other suggestions for tips I should add to this page, please let me know. These posts should be all you need to get off the sofa, out the front door, and up a hill for the night…

  • River Swim

    Look at the normal with fresh eyes. Seek the extra-ordinary in the ordinary. Step away from the pleasant, unsurprising riverside picnic. Step away and slide down into the water. See the world from a different perspective. Be surprised. Swim a river.

  • A Journey to the End of my Country

    The irony of reading the epic Odyssey on a microadventure was not lost on me. But if there is one thing I have learned during this Year of Microadventures it is this...

  • A Circular Journey

    The best microadventures include all the ingredients of great epics (voyaging into the unknown, hardship and surprises).

  • How my Book became an Amazon Bestseller

    The day you finish writing your book is not the day your book is finished. Nor is it the day the book is published and you gaze with a mixture of relief, disbelief, pride and trepidation on the book in your hand. Your book! At last!

  • A 5-to-9 Microadventure

    Last week I had the perfect opportunity to practice what I preach: the idea of brief adventurous escapes. I had just spoken at an IT conference in Scotland and the boss of the company had taken the stage after my talk to do her very best to drain away all the fun, enthusiasm and positivity I had been paid to inject.

  • A Bicycle Challenge

    This is the Fred Whitton Challenge. It’™s not on Twitter and it’™s not branded as, Xtreme, Tough, Epic, Ultimate or Awesome, though it probably is some of those things.

  • Your Year of Microadventure

    A Year of Microadventure 12 months. 12 overnight microadventures. 1 adventurous year.

  • Grab a Map, Close your Eyes, Point, Go

    I wanted to explode some excuses with my year of microadventure. Here’s a few of them...

  • Mountain Bikes and Bothy Nights

    When I’m in stuck in the city, chasing deadlines and dollars and other men’s dreams, I often wish I could escape to something different.

  • Four Seasons of Microadventure

    Once a season this year I am spending a night out in the same woods.

  • A Journey On The Tube

    I’ve spent a lot of time, too much time, squashed in the London Underground and wishing I was doing something like this instead.

  • A Rafting Microadventure

    Tom and I paid homage to Millican Dalton by sleeping in the cave he used to live in, building a raft of our own and paddling it down the River Derwent.

  • Microadventure FAQs

    The appeal of microadventures is that they make adventure accessible to people who may have very little outdoor experience.

  • Kids Microadventure

    Get a bunch of kids.

    Let them walk over a big hill, eat outside, run a bit wild, jump in a river, toast marshmallows and sleep under the stars in their clothes.

    Here is what happens...

Adventure Inspiration.

Adventure can be exciting, challenging, refreshing and rewarding.