In 1864 the mass murdering pastoralist Angus McMillan cut an ambitious 220km path through the mountains between two remote gold mining towns in the heart of Victoria, Australia. 120 years later a group of bushwalkers stitched the trail back together. When Beau Miles found out about the track he decided to run it, thinking ‘gee, this track has a story to tell’! Running 73 km a day for three days over steep, often unmarked terrain, and having grown up thinking McMillan was a colonial hero, there was a lot of terrain, and thinking, to be absorbed. He’d finally embarked on a running adventure that wasn’t just about running.
Beau's neighbours have given him a huge pumpkin for a project he's been meaning to do properly for years; go on a three day running and riding adventure while eating a single item of food.
Beau Miles, taking inspiration from a double episode of Seinfeld, decides to hit the roadside and collect a truck load of redeemables to drive interstate to New South Wales to redeem them.
Beau Miles was asked to come in and talk on breaky TV about Backyard Adventuring. Beau said sure, "but why don’t I have a Backyard Adventure instead? I’ll run around Sydney with my wheelbarrow and collect up junk wood, make stuff, and present it to the TV presenters on air the following morning, 24 hours later". So that’s what he did.
Beau Miles' magnificent hat has lost the will to live. After fifteen years of sun and body fluids, with a heavy heart and a head full of memories Beau takes his favourite, thread-bare, stinking, beyond-repair hat for one last run.
The Cooks River: Australia's sickest urban river is located in the glamorous and famously pretty city of Sydney. This makes sense, given it’s also Australia's largest, hard-surfaced, drainified, leaky-sewered, city. In my little red kayak I decided to trace all 23km of the Cooks River, inspired to do so after paddling my boyhood river over 4 days in the name of Backyard Adventuring. Finding it not only challenging, but shocking in terms of its ill health, I’ve since shifted from wanting to see the wildest and most pristine places on earth, to the most degraded and sick. This is a journey of ill-health, sadness and hope; putting a test to the local saying, ‘if you fall in, you’ll dissolve’.
Beau Miles' decimal age on March 2nd, 2022 was 42.195, which by no coincidence is also the length of a marathon in kilometres. To celebrate being alive, based on the actions of two people almost 43 years ago, he decided to run the famous distance around his district, retracing his history via schools, homes, memories and odd experiences that have shaped him, his mum and his dad over this marathon-chunk of time.
On a recent crossing of Bass Strait in a sea kayak, Beau Miles was voted 5th worst dressed in a party of 5. Being offbeat and NQR speaks volumes about how Beau goes about life and represents himself to the world, believing wholeheartedly that we’re all weird. With a PhD in Outdoor Education, a string of successful short films under his belt, Beau’s exploits are funny, authentic, insightful and being copied all over the world.
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