ABSTRACT
Collecting and generating empirical material in the outdoors requires a flexibility that parallels the natural environment in which outdoor research predominantly takes place. Utilising an interpretive approach, with a focus on understanding the affective experience of participants, this chapter offers a range of data collection methods and techniques for the researcher in the outdoors. A focus on the challenges, issues and tensions of choosing, modifying and problem-solving methods and techniques prior to entering, and in the outdoors, is initiated. Specifically, participant observation, intentional conversations and document collection provide examples and attend to the flexibility required in the outdoors.
