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Do you tend towards adventuring solo on most occasions Alistair? Is that part of the attraction for you, to not be limited by someone else's fitness or lesser sense of daring-do?

I like to think that young corporate guy may see this video Alistair and either do the pro / con list afresh or (even better) write a comment here telling you that he did that back in the day and has since enjoyed the most halcyon adventures thanks to your inspiration and advice. :)

A whole 4 minutes adventure

Deakins book inspired my wife to take up swimming again. She used to be a lifeguard in summer, and taught swimming, but hadn't done much swimming in years. Roger Deakins book started it all up again. Great book. His others are as well! Thanks for the nice video.

I love how much you love life! Thanks for sharing your amazing adventures, you've been an inspiration to me.

Great photos!

Iovely, thoughtful film

Enjoyed the video. Inspired me to litter pick this morning on our very similar path on my morning dog walk. I litter pick regularly anyway. Our Council run TU2CU ( Team Up To Clean Up) a successful volunteer led LP scheme. Also if you have heard of Paws on Plastic- encouraging dog owners to LP when on their daily dog walks. Great work Alastair. I feel your pain re brambles.

Such a cool undertaking. You both did very well. What water source did you have?

lol dude crying why cant i be normal like he doesnt live for this shit... typical dumbass youtuber.

Your place is very fantastic!

I'm old, so I usually bring two sleeping mats now.

Fear is Faithful but Faith is Fearful. Without order, is Chaos; With order is a right mind. With calamity is learning(rapidly). Without Consistency, is failure.

Had no idea you had a channel! Here in Tanzania, I see plenty of people in this village collecting water from deep gutters. Since it just rained last night, it's probably VERY safe. I collect it off the roof. ;)

I love the idea of the "full moon forays"!! I use Google Calendar to schedule all of my work and on-call commitments and therefore, also holiday periods but I hadn't thought of using it as the impetus to kick me over the doorstep into the great outdoors. Thanks Alistair. :)

Wonderful. Great discussion. take away (Amongst many)? Say yes more than no. Thank you.

Ahhh…the calendar advice. Agreed. Totally. And I do try, I promise I do. But when I look back through that calendar, oh so many gaps and then I have to ask myself, so what did I do during all those gaps? Best not to dwell on that! Though I do know the extended lunch break today was spent watching a guy on you tube banging on about…..🤔….oh well, moving swiftly on! 🤣

Agree with you. I'd go further and say I consider picking up litter to be a revolutionary act. I don't even tut if some litter is back in that same patch the next week. Whatever. Pick it up. One crisp packet at a time. I secretly also like picking it up in front of the car I suspect has dropped it and putting it in my bin bag totally nonchantly and non-confrontationally. Revolutionary stuff.

"The point to all this..." 🤣 nice. I'm a big fan of Leatherman multi tools. Mora stuff always seems to be great value too.

Love this guy. And The Kindness of Strangers is a book I would read. Travel biographies are a favorite genre.

Inspiring guy!

I am just halfway through your book ("MOODS OF FUTURE JOYS") when I realized that I had no idea how old you are and if you're still among us on this planet :-D I decided to look you up and had a small glimpse of hope to see an interview of sorts with you, to know your voice. I like to read books with my inner voice sounding like the authors actual voice. I was delighted to see that only 19 hours ago you most recently uploaded a video. This video - which I will enjoy during lunch break now. Fantastic book by the way, I can hardly put it away.

Right on Alastair, thank you from Aotearoa NZ 😊 My weekend tramp just got canned, but it's winter solstice on Friday, so I'm keeping my dog care booking and my extra day's annual leave Monday, and I'll go do some local adventures including a wild brew somewhere lovely!

Vote Green! Unless in a marginal Tory seat I suppose...

I’m watching this while wild camping in the woods!

hi (from Denmark) Alastair, I'm on the same journey as you with changing habits around food, travel, environment/climate, animal welfare etc. etc. and i recognize the dilemmas and challenges. Thank you for the cookbook reference - it's one of my main challenges moving to a meat/dairy free diet - how to cook interesting food! And praise also for your attention to not vegan ranting :-D cheers, Martin

Have a great weekend Alastair 👍Good answers. I’ve got a D of E group who got inspired by watching some of your vids and hearing about micro adventures….

These guys need to talk to Elon about going to Mars.

Your micro adventures will be a thing of legend one day .

I like sizzling king prawn McCoys 😋 But it’s not mine.

Great ramble! But beware of dropping organic litter too. Only take photos (or about to go viral videos) and leave footprints whilst out and about. My personal dislike is the ubiquitous orange peel by paths. Not a fruit indigenous to the the UK - as yet - but with climate change fast advancing who knows for the future!!

Picking up litter is more important than people think.

Totally agree. But at least we can take action, and make a difference to the area/world you live in. And maybe someone who drops litter will see you picking it up and decide to join you, or at least think twice next time they buy roast king prawn flavour crisps(ewww btw) and decide this time to bin them! 😊👍🏼

Really enjoying seeing your increased videos on CZcams your a natural fit for it

Agreed with you! Ps: your hair wants cutting.

Out of interest, which river was that?

Good morning, Al! I'm grateful for your presence in the world.

What a great little video. Well done Alastair

Very interesting take, as usual!

So glad the YT gods finally showed me this! Fantastic concept of micro adventures

I love this, I'm surrounded by waterways and constantly told by the locals that the water is 'massively polluted' and 'toxic' because of the historic industry that surrounds this town, it certainly doesn't always look that inviting, but it never occurred to me to actually test it myself!? 😃 i still wouldn't drink it though 😆

cracking!

Fabulous insightful, funny and informative book. I finished reading this earlier this week, after a recommendation from a friend. It coincided with a family move to a new area, so one of the first things I did was order a 1:25000 map with our house in the centre and have been starting to explore. Not a grid at a time yet, but just connecting with the area. thoroughly recommend it myself and am about to have my first micro-adventrue next week 😀

Nice concept and exercise. Cymraeg ydy'r iaith @7:35 (Welsh is the language @07:35), it seems a bit distorted by ChatGPT - but possibly says "Of course, I could write the results". Although, I'd be wary of just testing pH, temp, phosphate and nitrates to decide whether a watercourse is drinkable in all places. Doesn't consider organic pollutants (herbicide, insecticides) and faecal bacteria. I appreciate there is also a judgement (e.g. I'll sometimes drink from upland streams) and what might be perfectly fine for swimming may not be so good for drinking. I'm also curious about that open pipe at @8:40 - it may just be a decommissioned 'pipe bridge' over the watercourse but I wonder if it is there for a pump connection for water abstraction/agricultural irrigation (this is speculation - I've no idea). As a canoeist I also see so much 'infrastructure' that has just been left to decay rather than responsibly removed. I do love your curiosity and approach with local exploration. There's so much we don't see/aren't aware of that's hidden behind unnecessary fences. Fideo neis, diolch yn fawr (Nice video, thanks very much).

Fantastic. I’m inspired to do it. Thank you x

Nice vid

Awesome. My neck of the woods is populated by cattle grazing on grassland. Beautiful and woodsy too, but the cattle bring wee beasties that can give you the screaming s...s, unfortunately. So it's water from home when I go out. Cattle are also conveyors of ticks, and their own contribution to potential misery. So, for me, my countryside adventures are on gravel roads on a bicycle. Another way for me to get away from the city, and be surrounded by nature. Thanks for your video. I embrace the micro adventure ethic as well, thanks to your mountain bikes and bothy nights video!

Cheers!!

Excellent video!

I hope your pursuit of drinkable river water led to no ill effects worse than wet trainers. Nice idea and great video Al.