Microadventure Ideas

So you’re keen to try something new and different this spring. You’re up for a Microadventure. Great!

“But now what?” I hear you ask. “What should I do?”

The good news is that you can do whatever you like on a microadventure. There are even fewer rules than Fight Club.

All I’d suggest is that you hang it on this loose framework:

Sleep outdoors. Don’t use a tent. Pack light. Plan simple. Seek wildness. Challenge yourself.

Those with an asterisk I reckon are the best ones for you to focus on.

• Sleep in your garden*
• Swim wild – in a river, lake or sea*
• Go solo*
• Go with a friend
• Go with a family member
• Tick off some themes: river, hill, mountain, beach, wood…*
• Take someone on their first microadventure*
• Take a child for their first microadventure*
• Do one on a work night*
• Make a cup of tea on a stove you have made yourself*
• Sleep by the sea (nobody in the UK lives more than 70 miles from the sea – video here)
• Sleep under a full moon
• Spot a shooting star
• Sleep out below 0 degrees Celsius*
• Put your own spin on the 12×12 challenge: 12 beaches, 12 Munros, 12 rude place names, 12 counties, 12 different friends…
• Get there by bike
• Get there on foot
• Paddle a river – by canoe or tractor inner tube
• Learn to identify a new bird or new tree each month
• Forage for your food, or at least pick some blackberries
• Do one on Mothers’ Day / Fathers’ Day
• Go on your birthday
• Go with some random people you meet online via #microadventure. (Bristol, for example, have their own Microadventure Facebook Group.)
• Take a novice friend on their birthday
• Sleep out on a snowy night
• Sleep somewhere local but new to you
• Do something that is challenging to you but achievable today (e.g. a ride or walk to a bivvy spot which is hard but do-able right now)
• Something that requires you to plan, train or put some effort in in some way
• Lots more ideas for you here.

Thanks Alastair, for this wonderful inspiration.