“THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE when you go hiking is that it’s a mistake.” So said American comic Jim Gaffigan while delivering one of his pithy observations onstage. “There’s nothing at the end … no bar, restaurant, or even a vending machine. We’re just idiots.”
Gaffigan’s ‘bit’ soundtracks an avalanche of TikTok hiking fails and, by default, splits the world into two camps: those who hike and those who find the very idea preposterous. But it may have given guided-walk specialist Life’s an Adventure an idea. Perhaps there is indeed middle ground – if you dangle an appropriately seductive hook, like South Australian riesling.
An Ecotourism Australia-certified company with a light footprint, Life’s an Adventure fosters close working relationships with local businesses that share the same environmental ethos, dovetailing us nicely into its inaugural Wine & Wilderness Walk. A minibus full of Camino de Santiago veterans, vino-focused social groups and this idiot
