Archive for June, 2010

 

Group Hikes

Jun28

Group hikes can be a wonderful way to spend time with friends and or family outdoors away from the busyness of life. Group hikes can also be a safer alternative to hiking alone or just with one other person. Groups like this can look after each other on the hike, they can help one another [...]

Should Music Be Played At Work

Jun27

The work place can sometimes become a sterile environment. It can become pretty dull depending on where it is that you work. But the fact is that we are there to work and we get paid to do so. But some workplaces like to play music for their employees. For example, how many of us [...]

Too Much Music

Jun24

Everywhere you go, there always seems to be some music playing. Whether you are in an elevator, on hold on the phone, driving home, shopping, exercising at a gym and so on, music is constantly being played. Why though? Whatever happened to a good silence? It is getting to the point where you cannot think [...]

Hiking Clothes

Jun20

Now when we used to hike around the neighborhood and neighboring fields or pastures as kids, we did not care that much what kind of clothes were best suited for our little adventures. Whatever we were wearing at the time usually was just perfect for our outings. But now that we are older and much [...]

Cassette Tapes

Jun14

Cassette tapes quickly replaced 8-track tapes. The 8-track tapes were large, bulky and very unreliable at times. Now of course some of them are collectibles. But along came the cassette tape. If you owned 8-tracks, then cassettes were amazing. They were so much smaller in size and they played the music in a better quality. [...]

Bad Weather Hikes

Jun08

Being in the great outdoors can certainly be a ton of fun. It can also bring with it some challenges. When you are hiking you just never know what some of these obstacles may end up being that could come your way during a hike. For example, even though the forecasters predict nice weather does [...]

The Black Discs

Jun07

The old records and record players… How many of you out there had one of these? They may not play the same quality of music as the players do now, but they themselves at the time where everything you wanted. It used to be so exciting heading to the music store to get a new [...]