LETTERS
[Letter of the Issue] KNOWN UNKNOWNS I read with interest Megan Holbeck’s ‘To Plan or Not to Plan’ article in Wild Issue #185, and overall I agree with her thesis: “Through the sheer amount of planning, I felt they’d removed most of the adventure.” As Anthony Sharwood points out in his great book From Snow to Ash, dealing with the unknown is both a challenge and a reward of adventurous activities. To illustrate the point let me relate an example from one of my adventures. In October 2020, I was a member of a group of septuagenarians (the oldest in his 80th year) who decided to walk from Katoomba to Mittagong. This walk was well documented in an edition of Bushwalks in the Sydney Region, so what could go wrong? Our first taste of…