After six months of hiking the Appalachian trail in 2019, the Marlone family ( USA) finished at Mount Kathadin wearing all smiles
Family Thru-hike Appalachian trail – Youngest only 6 years old
People walking while helping science
Researching how hikers work together with scientists to cover unknown and difficult terrain
Dealing with expectations when hiking
Expectations comes in many forms - some of them are our own, in our backpack - other expectations are from those around us
Path away from it all or towards a better place
What we focus on seems to me to define us more than we realize, no matter if we walk away from it or towards it.
The challenge of being the edge
Thoughts on innovation, hiking and being first movers
Hiking between high and low habits
Habits are a bit like places... or maybe we can also see them as trails? Notes on habits, recovery and paths
Hiking along a rising sea
One of the strongest lines of defense against rising sea levels and climate change can be coastal trails on dykes
Learning to live with less
We humans put a great pressure on Earth, if we had to carry all our stuff, our impact on the planet would most likely be much smaller
Appreciating what we have
Umbrella vs boots - seeing what we lack The double envy paradox Text and illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt Often the grass can look greener on the other side, as we focus on what we lack instead of what we have. The good thing is that by talking together we can get the other side of... Continue Reading →
Refuel on hike
Getting enough to drink and eat on a hike is one of the things that is often not considered important for inexperienced hikers
AI is ready, are we?
Soon most of us will become irrelevant, as technology can do more and more of our work, cheaper and better than us - without asking questions
Free Lunch
Always learned there is no such thing as a free lunch - but on a hike a cold winter day I realized there might be one exception to this rule - Nature
Nature Deficit disorder
Today most of us are keeping thoughts and nature at a digital distance. Walking a few hours first can help us get back to nature
Walking as a different reality
Logbook 1. January 2019 - daring into a new year of hiking
Santa Claus and hiking under digital chimneys
Thoughts on digital platforms vs Communities
Happy Hiking Holidays
Being back out on the trails can be the best way to recover from days with too long to do lists
It’s better to walk about thinking than think about walking
Logbook note: How to think is one of the classic questions in philosophy - And most of the great thinkers were not in doubt - thinking is better on foot
The faster you move the longer you need to go
Strange how walking can be the solution and how a higher speed can make the distance you have to travel so much longer
Technological hope and hiking
Can technology save the logic of the industrial era - and do we really want to save it?
Conflicts around the edge
Some conflicts are all about perspective - drawing on thrive and hiking
House swallows hiker… again
Logbook update 8 Nov. 2018 - Hiking and thoughts on how to deal with Homesickness
Hope is a butterfly
Illustration of hope landing on your knee, when lost in the middle of nowhere
Hiking with a Google Brain
Thoughts and sketch of how technology might become part of hiking tomorrow - and the challenges about that
Gap in a landscape
Logbook 26. Oct. 2018 - just a sketch of a gap
Walking between hills
Logbook 21. Oct. Watercolor sketch
Sketching ways to guide hikers along the paths
Drawing of five main guidance types, that can make hiking trails easier to follow
To know or be known – Nature vs Technology thoughts
When we interact with technology, it will get to know us better. When we interact with nature, we will get to know ourselves better
Filling the basket
Hiking can teach us to take better care of both our personal and global resources
Phone Hiker drawing
Logbook sketch of a hiker half phone half human
Returning home
Log. 31. Aug. 2018 - The feeling of being back home after a hike illustration
