Deployment 31: Seriously Epic
Sufjan & Roscoe, 2hrs West-ish of Newcastle.
There are few words as overused and under-served in the English language as 'epic.' It's something you probably associate with your stoner brother, who used to drawl it while watching Avatar in 3D, baked out of his mind. Or else, surfers dropping the word into conversation when talking about a wave they caught that morning. Epic is frequently taken to mean awe-inspiring, but we've set ourselves a pretty low bar with that lately. TV series are epic. Twitter beefs are epic. The new KFC zinger is epic. We probably need a bit of a reset on this one.
We've got a couple of different scales here at Unyoked HQ, like our spice meter to designate more difficult walks. But our epic scale is something we're always refining, in search of that unique feeling that is being in the vast seclusion of nature for the first time, or maybe even the third time. We know that unlike Avatar, wilderness immersion gets better every time you get stuck into it. And doing that somewhere truly epic does wonders not only for your mind, but also for your soul.
Sufjan and Roscoe are named not only for people we met in our travels, but also for musicians that made us understand the value of getting far out to wipe the slate clean. There's Sufjan Stevens, who at one point had the ambition to write an album dedicated to every state in America, carving out new epics year upon year after spending time in nature. And Roscoe, the era-defining song from Midlake, a band that invented a pastoral village in a forest at the end of the world. Ideas can come from anywhere, but we know they tend to spring to mind out here.
Sufjan and Roscoe are as epic as any location we've ever discovered and we can't wait for you to drop your jaw and open your mind when you experience them. So take a drive, throw on some psychedelic jams from the 1960s or the mid-2000s and get ready for the most epic session of your life.
Roscoe & Sufjan, 2hrs West-ish of Newcastle.
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