The paper examines the role of canoe tripping in creating, perceiving and sharing meanings of place and movement. Addressing concerns over the transitory nature of outdoor recreation activities, Ingold's dwelling perspective is used to draw connections between skill development and senses of place and movement. Narratives of place from an extended canoe expedition in northern Canada are presented and analysed in the context of the author's changing understanding of theory and practice. Outdoor recreation research has been criticized for framing landscape as a static backdrop. In response, landscape, environmental conditions and social interactions are shown to be co-influential and woven together through the practice of skilled activities. This approach highlights the importance of socially and ecologically situating human activity. Implications are discussed for those researching, developing and providing adventure tourism and recreation. Résumé: Histoires vivantes de paysages: la perception du lieu en canotant dans le nord du Canada Cet article indique comment son auteur interprète, en se servant de la perspective d'Ingold sur l'appartenance, l'influence du canotage sur la création, la perception et le partage de la signification des lieux et du mouvement. Tout en reconnaissant la nature fugitive des activités de loisirs en plein air, l'auteurétablit un lien entre l'apprentissage d'une activité et le sens du lieu et du mouvement. L'auteur présente et analyse, dans le contexte d'une compréhension théorique et pratique changeante, les récits sur le lieuécrits et enregistrés par les participantsà une longue expédition en canoë dans le nord du Canada. On reprocheà la recherche sur les activités de plein air de considérer le paysage comme fond statique. En réponse, l'article démontre que le paysage, l'environnement et les interactions sociales s'interpellent et s'entrecroisent lors de la pratique d'activités qui requièrent de la dextérité et qu'ils donnent forme et signification aux lieux en structurant l'impact sur l'environnement et la perception qu'on en a. Cette approche souligne l'importance de situer toute activité humaine dans son contexte social etécologique. L'auteur discute les conséquences pour les Downloaded by [University Library Utrecht] at 17:16 16 March 2015 234 P. M. Mullins chercheurs ainsi que pour ceux qui développent et procurent des activités touristiques et des loisirs pour les amateurs d'aventure. Zusammenfassung: Lebendige Geschichten der Landschaft: Die Wahrnehmung des Ortes beim Kanufahren im Norden Kanadas Dieser Artikel zeigt wie nach Ansicht des Autors Ingolds 'dwelling perspective' (Wohnperspektive) den Einfluss von Kanufahren auf die Produktion, Wahrnehmung und Teilung von Bedeutungen von Ort und Bewegung erhellen kann. Einwaende ueber die voruebergehende Natur von Outdoor Freizeitaktivitaeten werden angesprochen, indem eine Verbindung zwischen der Entwicklung von Faehigkeiten mit Empfindungen von Ort und Bewegung hergestellt wird. Darstellungen von Orten, geschrieben und aufgezeichne...

In response to the crisis of sustainability, this paper revisits understandings of human–environment relations established through skill-based outdoor activities that are used commonly among adventure recreation, education, and tourism. Reconsidering a predominant focus on risk and a persistent tension between technical and environmental knowledge, a case is made for skill as an important avenue for research related to participants’ environmental learning and engagement. Diverse qualitative and quantitative research literature concerning outdoor education, recreation specialization, place, and skilled performance are reviewed. The author argues that developing theoretical and practical approaches to outdoor adventure education, recreation, and tourism within a sustainability paradigm will require perspectives that position humanity as belonging within environments, and that skill provides an important avenue for doing so. Ultimately, research and practice will need to account for skill development and performance as shaping—for better or worse—participants’ socioecological engagement.

This paper describes the foundations, introduces a conceptual model, and discusses uses of the commonplace journey methodology, an innovative and mobile qualitative research and pedagogical approach based on existential hermeneutic phenomenology. Using this mobile methodology, the researcher placed a theoretical approach to human-environment relations from outside the scholarly field of outdoor recreation and education in dialogue with travellers' lived experience, activities, and understandings during an extended canoe expedition. Examples from the data and findings are used to further describe the processes, benefits, and challenges of this phenomenological methodology. Finally, the author describes four analytical techniques used to anchor interpretation and written theoretical accounts in lived practice and physical context. This paper describes the commonplace journey methodology, a qualitative research and pedagogical approach developed for the author's doctoral work exploring the limits and possibilities of theory and practice in moving from a wilderness paradigm to a sustainability paradigm in outdoor adventure (Mullins, 2011). Using this methodology, the researcher placed a theoretical approach to human-environment relations from outside the field of outdoor recreation and education in dialogue with travellers' lived experience, activities, and understandings to inform the theory and practice within the

To answer calls for an ecological approach to outdoor adventure that can respond to the crisis of sustainability, this paper suggests greater theoretical and empirical attention to skill and skill development as shaping participant interactions with and experiences of environments, landscapes, places, and inhabitants. The paper reviews calls for ecological approaches as well as phenomenological analyses of outdoor adventure. The paper then outlines a heuristic perspective that positions humanity as belonging within environments and highlights the performative and movement orientation of outdoor adventure. Ingold’s work is outlined as an informative ecological ontology and, integrating it with the literature reviewed, alternative conceptualizations of skill, activity, and outdoor adventure are provided. These understandings enable a first step in formulating and researching a participatory ecological approach to outdoor adventure education, recreation, and tourism.

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