Onwards

Hello to those of you reading this!

I am starting this blog – with two main intentions.  One, keep it relatively active.  Sometimes in between everything else, you don’t sit down, take stock and actually enjoy writing about it.  The second is to give readers insight in to the area I visit, to help them with their own planning – as well as showing my process of planning (hopefully) progressively longer trips as I develop my long distance walking.  With a little luck, this should turn parts of the blog in to an archive of larger and more epic trips.

I come from a family with history of loving the outdoors, my father did plenty of technical climbing in Nepal, and part of that allure has rubbed off – the big hills are no less part of the long term plan for me. In the short term though, those technical skills need developing bit by bit, and none of this should let me forget the fundamentals: that I just adore being outdoors, with a clear sky above my head and sublime views to soak up – wherever it may take me.

The goal is for this to be part interactive log of my trips, but also a list of future plans where others can chime in about their experiences. I enjoy planning hikes, pouring over maps to find interesting routes, good campsites and historical quirks like ruins to explore.  Sometimes you want a simple A to B, with the destination being the goal, but I am slowly coming around to enjoying the route, taking detours, exploring the area because in many cases I know I won’t be coming back again.

Before this becomes too lengthy and rambling, I’ll leave plenty of that for later.  I hope you enjoy reading, and feel free to mention your own experiences as comments.  Many people can walk the same hills, but experience them completely differently.  Some are social hikers, some like solitude, some like technical challenges, all are welcome.

Lets see where this goes.