How Does Your Garden Grow?
Published August 21, 2009 | 
For somebody who don’t drive, I been all around the world. . .
– melanie
Ok, so hopefully Mountain Hardwear won’t be peeved that I’m using them for an example. I just KNOW somebody won’t catch on when I say, “old”, “out of date” or “example” repeatedly below… Thing is there was still a link to an old sponsorship form active on a Mountain Heardwear blog post from September of 2008 (Nothing every goes away). Now what makes the old sponsorship form special is that it offers all those potential, future, world class, climbers, paddlers and other adventurers out there a chance to see in good order what sort of questions they should be answering before they send emails and letters out to companies asking for props. And let’s face it, we can’t all be Freya…
Posted in Expeditions, Learning, Paddle Gear, Paddling | 
camping, expediton, Mountain Hardwear, sponsorships, tents
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise.
If I don’t stand my own ground, how can I find my own way out of this maze ? – floyd
Blogs have changed a lot since I started blogging 3 PCs and 22 kayaks ago… Well, that was how I was going to start off this blog, until I thought a bit more about it. Not ALL blogging has changed, but for some it has. It used to be that a blog was simply an online journal. While what we wrote back in the day was certainly available for anyone to read, it wasn’t primarily written to be read. It wasn’t a business an online publication or an e-zine. It was simply an outlet. Anyone who’s ever visited a therapist in their lives knows the value of keeping a bedside journal and the extended value of sharing it. Of course the whole exercise begins to get distorted when you become overly mindful of the audience.
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