365 Microadventures

Inspiration for your next outdoor adventure

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Raindrop Races

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This activity is great for kids and playful grown ups.

Who cannot recall sitting in a bus, car or just being bored staring out a rany window. The suddenly leaving boredom and start imagine the raindrops competing in reaching the button of the window first.

Now add real Raindrop Racing Stars in all colours. Pick your favourite and start racing.

All you need is the following:

  • Water – Rain will, of cause, make it even more authentic
  • Food colouring (3-4 colours)
  • Small plastic cups
  • Tape
  • Eye droppers
  • Books/elevated surface
  • Long plank of wood/metal
  • Wax paper, plexiglass or a plastic bag

Now jump into the remain wear and go out to collect real raindrops for your Rain Drop Racers game.

Hot chocolate, a spy and a stick

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For the kids, a microadventure does not have to invole a whole lot of preparations.

What I have learned is, that the tough part is to get from inside the house to the outside of the house.

The rest will take care of itself.

One thing that is very nice to have, that is some kind of snack for the kids. To keep them going out there or to even persuade them that your idea of a trip to the local forest, beach or field is a good idea.

On this occasion, we used the bikes to get to the local forest. And I brought one familiar object, the hot chocolate. We played with another familiar object; a stick or two from the bottom of the forest.

And the adventure part of this trip was a small child-friendly binocular, with which the kids had a great time spying on some animals.

Bike n’ hike along the coast

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This was fun, a bit tough.

And definitely a great microadventure 😉

If you live close to the coastline.

Carry my bike on the beach

This microadventure is one for you to copy.

I decided to travel north following the coastline. As in following the coastline very closely. Sometimes I got wet feet.

Bike n’ hike

And I did it with my bike. Sometimes on my bike. Not always, as the pictures show .

This way of bike and hike was giving me all the adventure I had hoped for.

You decide the rules

I set the rules, so when I felt like leaving the coast for a while to be biking on the roads or gravel path close to the sea I did so.

When I wanted to follow the coastline with one foot practically in the water, I did so.

Only once I had real trouble. I had been walking in stones lifting my bike over fallen trees for a long time, and I decided to climb a very steep slope.

That was tough with the bike. Sorry for not being able to shoot pictures of it. But I was so focused on not slipping and not losing the grip of my bike.

On top of the slope, there was the most fun mountain bike path with some great views.

Going back to home my leg decided that I should bike mostly on paved roads and avoid too many hills ?

See more pictures in the above gallery.

Microadventure with my kid

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I use most of my days off on Micro adventures. Alone and With My 7 year old son. With a calendar full My son, work and girlfriend mean I have to get All I Can get out off My days off. Aka Micro adventures!!!!

I, we..( Because My son does it to.. That’s the best part) hike, camp, bikepacking and bushcraft. For us it’s about being brave, knowledge and what it can give you on the positive note. Giving us positive input, that we are able to do much more than we think. Lessons Both I as a grown man, and My son too This Day are learning from.. And that everything is interesting if you look close enough. For us to do all these things we want to do, we have had to learn many new skills, in which give us the ability to push the limits and grow in confidence and belief in our self, that it’s not scary Around the next corner, the cold doesn’t scare us and so on. My son has been hiking and camping since he Was 4.. And that’s with his own kit. Because we have a lot of different equipment… Mine and My son his own, to make it possible.

This summer we took a 200k bikepacking trip along the East Coast of Denmark.. Trails grew men fear. Can’t be a more proud dad, but mostly and importantly. My son knows he is a badass that that Can do much more than he Things. I tell him often, don’t look to others to solve your problem, maybe you are the solution. Aka.. The sky is the limit. To make All This possible I do a lot of research. And often do the hikes or recon it Both on satellite, maps and in person. I do hiking mostly recently.. Ultralight, trails.. Done most of the trails in Denmark a couple of times by now, Both hiking and bikepacking… Nothing recharges My batteries like a weekend of just a day or hour on “the mission”. When it Comes to research it also just knowledge, so I Can learn My son New Thing. Building camp, fire, hydration on the trail, plants, trees, animals and so on.. I almost never just walk out the door. Most times there is some kind of goal. Make, walk, do, fix, invent, test, learn… When it Comes to My son it’s learning through fun. Even if it just 2 hours or 2 days.

Bo Tolstrup

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