Hello Outdoorists
Today is my last day of work as a web developer at Colorado State University. For three and a half years I’ve been a Weekend Warrior, spending as many of those precious S-days under the sky as possible. Now I will attempt a new life as an Outdoorist. I have only an idea of what that is, an idea I hope will develop and change. This site will be about that idea, and my search for it, but not about me in particular. Ideally it will be about all Outdoorists, starting with me.
I know that an Outdoorist is someone who has come to value the outdoors very highly in life. I will explore how that happens, despite all the ways our culture discourages it.
The Weekend Warrior is virtually the only culturally sanctioned form of outdoor life, and it has significant limitations. I will explore those limitations and ways around them, but I’m especially interested in the alternative lifestyles that have been discovered by Outdoorists. How do they work? How will mine work?
I’ll do this by finding Outdoorists and talking to them. I’ll find inspiration from the great outdoors itself along the way, and share it. If I realize my vision, I’ll find my own outdoor life along the way.
To begin with, I’ll be leaving Colorado after work today in my truck camper, with one cat and one cargo trailer. Over the New Mexico state line I’ll join my wife for some rock climbing in Sugarite State Park. In the following weeks she will maintain the burden of Weekend Warriorism in Santa Fe so I can explore Outdoorism and report back here.
I have big bag of topics I’m eager to dip into, but what I really want is for this site to generate interest in the outdoors, set that interest on fire, and help us all get outside as much as possible. To do that I will need some help generating momentum. Please take a minute to give Outdoorism a little kick off:
- If you don’t have Del.icio.us, Digg, or Technorati account please make one and use it here. There will be links at the top of each post. These tools beat the pants off of bookmarks, and are pretty much a necessity to get a grassroots website off the ground.
- Rate the posts. Bad ratings are almost more important than good ones - I need to know what you don’t care about or don’t want to see here.
- Comments are even better than ratings!
- If you have a site, give us a little linky love. It feels good!
Thank you. Welcome. We’re at the trailhead, there’s no map, and I don’t know where the trail goes. Wanna come along?
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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WOO-HOO! I love the trailhead, but let’s get away from the crowds & the parking lot. If there’s no plan or map, then there’s no way to get “lost”. Or is that the plan…to be “lost”?