Overcoming a fear is rewarding and terrifying. Like grieving, it takes time.
Knowledge
The website CalTopo has been a powerful, versitle and useful mapping program/website for a number of years. SAR responders will also recognize the usefulness of “SARTopo”. Those who have used Caltopo will know that its usefulness ends when you close your laptop or desktop. . . that is until last week, when […]
The quick patter of droplets on leaves told the story of a thunderstorm that had just passed. Myself and two other candidates waited in their vehicles under the cover of electrified darkness. Through my rearview mirror I spotted a dome light. “It looks like it might be a go”, I […]
Knot tying is an ancient thing. The earliest knowledge of knots (that I have ever found) dates to 300,000 years ago. Perforated stones, beads and pendants from that era have been found – suggesting the use of knots. Archaeology has suggested that knot work is important to human development. Without […]