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* There is magic in experiencing links between academics and reality! *<\/em><\/p>\n

In one of the posts on this blog (here<\/a> – the post is on ‘respecting wildlife’<\/em>) I have mentioned how generations of readers have scoured pavements of cities like Mumbai and Delhi for old books, in the process striking pure gold many a time. But imagine a busy morning with people dashing about on \u2018matters of consequence\u2019, to borrow a phrase of the businessman from ‘Little Prince’. Espying stacks and stacks of books piled in a street corner, a compulsive reader hurrying by used to get torn between the need to meet someone boring in a meeting room and the urge to meet adventuring heroes in a book’s pages! Such a reader perforce developed the ability, which soon evolved into a consummate skill, of quickly scanning the alluring mass to spot the unusual book. For me, the roots of this lay in my visits to my school library where one had limited time to return a borrowed book, choose a new one and get it issued at the desk. And that is where I first read Ernest Thompson Seton. For the life of me I don\u2019t understand how a small school in a humble and distant suburb of Bombay (now renamed Mumbai) could actually have this gem! The name of this unassuming but wonderful institution is Model English School, located in Dombivli, forty nine kilometers away from the Bombay GPO.<\/p>\n

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I was mesmerised by the book. Of the many things that Seton was, he was also an artist and naturalist turned author. He is described as an \u2018early pioneer of modern animal fiction\u2019. In the book that I found in my school\u2019s library were some of his most well known stories, including that of how a cottontail rabbit raised her son \u2018Raggylug\u2019. Seton\u2019s stories are beautifully illustrated with his own sketches, and serve to create great clarity about the world he explored and understood.<\/p>\n

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The Connection<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

That book introduced me to the world of elks, mule deer, wolves, bears, coyotes, cottontail rabbits, ranch dogs and the human-animal conflict during the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. One of the wild areas that he explored and wrote about was Wind River Mountain Range in Wyoming, U.S.A.<\/p>\n

It was in the year 2000 that I undertook the Instructor Course (IC) of National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), based in… Lander<\/em>, Wyoming<\/em>! The hiking section of my IC happened in the Wind Rivers, and the subsequent rock section at a place called Split Rock, a prominent landmark on the famous Oregon Trail. It was the first time that I was travelling to a country outside of the Indian subcontinent, and of all the locations that I could have gone to, I went to the one place about which I had read in my school days with utter fascination!<\/p>\n

In India animals have learnt to be inconspicuous and even invisible due to ubiquitous human presence down the centuries. The situation in the U.S.A. is very different. In that sojourn in U.S.A. in 2000, to my indescribable joy, I saw innumerable animals: pronghorn antelopes while driving in to the NOLS HQ, mule deer and elk that visited our camps for salt, a moose that walked by right through a camp when we were away high above it during a class, a rattlesnake sunbathing on a trail and lots of \u2018bear sign\u2019 on the snow slopes that we tackled. Our camp at Split Rock regularly had cottontails hopping around in plain sight.<\/p>\n

At Split Rock one of the tent groups was late one day for our morning assembly, something that is almost sacrilegious! Eventually they turned up with the fascinating story of how, while they were readying to get to the assembly, they saw a rattler devour the young ones of a cottontail, going in into its nest of grass and fur and dragging out a bunny one by one. This was straight from Seton\u2019s story\u2026 and I had listened to my course-mates\u2019 recounting of their experience with a sense of awe bordering on disbelief.<\/p>\n

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One of the things that a NOLS instructor is supposed to do is teach natural history through \u2018nature nuggets\u2019. On the first course that I taught after the IC \u2013 in Pasayten Wilderness in the North Cascades in Washington \u2013 I decided to use what I remembered from Seton\u2019s book and weave it in with the experience of my course-mates from the IC to put together a series of \u2018nature nuggets\u2019 spread over days. My stories were a hit with students, and we ended many a day sitting around after dinner, talking about animals that we knew were all around us. Since then I have endeavored to do similar storytelling whether working in India or in the U.S., embellishing each story of great naturalists\u00a0 like Seton with data from actual experiences.<\/p>\n

The crowning glory of that first course was a sighting in its last three days. The students were walking independently, and we were just the three instructors on our route. Walking point, I turned a corner in the trail and spotted a bear foraging a few metres in front of me. I raised my hand and promptly squatted down, as did my fellow instructors. The bear was in no hurry and we spent a considerable amount of time observing it, afraid to make a noise for fear of spooking the animal. Eventually the course leader whispered that we will have to be on our way or the bear will have us camping right there! I requested them to give me some time as I wanted to photograph it – my first ever bear in the wild! I had packed the camera inside a plastic bag when it had drizzled a bit a while back. As I attempted to take it out the plastic crackled and the bear shot down the slope looking very much like Winnie the Pooh in one of his energetic modes!<\/p>\n

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Some other authors that I have quoted while teaching \u2018nature nuggets\u2019 are Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Ramesh Desai, Salim Ali, George Schaller, Gerald Durrell and Joy Adamson.<\/p>\n

Happy Reading! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

One of the things that outdoor education helps achieve is establishing links between academics and reality. The objective is to help the young mind find fun and meaning in academics through first-hand experiences. The focus is to offer the perspective that \u2018there is fun in academics\u2019 and spark off the urge for exploration. With increased understanding of one\u2019s environment, a person develops healthy respect and concern for that environment.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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* There is magic in experiencing links between academics and reality! * In one of the posts on this blog (here – the post is on ‘respecting wildlife’) I have mentioned how generations of readers have scoured pavements of cities like Mumbai and Delhi for old books, in the process striking pure gold many a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

The primary purpose of this blog is to present interesting and useful information on activities related to outdoors. This information, along with narrations of my personal experiences and illustrations, will help you<\/p>

  1. Gain conceptual clarity behind safe and effective outdoor practices<\/li>
  2. Take your own decisions about outdoor gear and use it effectively<\/li>
  3. Become highly self-aware which in turn will enable you to stay comfortable and healthy in the outdoors, which in turn will enhance your enjoyment<\/li><\/ol>

    My experience primarily comes from having walked, worked and climbed in the Himalaya, the Sahyadri (Western Ghats) and some mountain ranges in the USA. All those experiences are complemented by the various roles I have had while leading in the outdoors: teaching, mentoring and facilitating.<\/p>

    A blog-post may be in any form, a story, a musing, or just a caption for a photograph or a sketch. The topics in this blog will range across land-based adventure activities as well as the subjects of outdoor education and outdoor leadership.<\/p>

    What is special about this blog & what motivates me to write this blog, yet another one on the limitless web of the internet?<\/em><\/p>

    Broadly, two things:<\/p>

    1. It is my belief that conceptual clarity is crucial in empowering people. Through this blog, I intend to articulate concepts and ideas that make life in the outdoors so thoroughly enjoyable and meaningful, that enable outdoors people make safe decisions and that contribute to very healthy interaction with our environment. If my posts contribute to enhancing your judgment then I too shall share in your joys in the outdoors!<\/li>
    2. On the outdoor leadership courses that I have worked, my storytelling was always highlighted as one of my \u2018strengths\u2019, and I have been sketching all my life\u2026 so I am really looking forward to this blog!<\/li><\/ol>

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