on the philosophy of gear

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This might sound a bit of an oxymoron at first sight. It might also seem a ridiculously pretentious post but what I’m trying to do is work out why I blog. Whereas I’ve got 25 years of hill diaries tucked away on the top shelf, this blog has only been going for about 18 months, with my first post back in December 2006. Looking back, it was a change in direction for me, with respect to wandering the hills. I’d decided that I’d go for the ML and start leading folk and to mark the occasion I thought I’d also launch into the blogosphere. Since then I’ve mainly posted about stravaiging, training and guiding, which is what I’ve written about in my diaries, minus the training and guiding. The diaries are personal accounts, to remind me of the friends, weather, conditions and routes we did and the solo trips I’ve done but the blog started to include articles that other people might find informative. The audience I was writing for slowly changed from my humble self, to whoever was interested in my electronically distributed opinions.

So why write a blog?

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on the philosophy of gear