Funny this blogging game. Jut when I’m thinking that it might be worth given it all up somebody comes along with a piece of flattery which lifts the spirits! This time it is Mark Smith who has written:
… I would like to say thanks for all the good reading and listening I have enjoyed for the last few years from your blog and podcasts. I am British but have lived out in Peru for the last 7 years so you can get a bit cut off from things at times so your musings have helped me keep in touch and mean I am able to skip around the local mountains nice and lightly with things like my Duomid that I would never have heard about otherwise.
Mark has recently begun a blog on trekking in the Andes:
I am aiming for a mixture of really good walk information such as walkhighlands, but put in a more pleasing to the eye format with lots of tales of trekking, backpacking and life of the mountain people. We have so many wonderful walks here which just never get done because people do not know about them and all that gets broadcast is inca trail, plus a few others. I would like to see people trekking other routes, for them to realise that backpacking is very possible here and also give a whole selection of day walks or couple of hour walks that people can just do themselves when here.
I notice that when overseas walking is discussed on the majority of lightweight or general walking blogs, it is mainly Pyrenees,Alps, GR20 and the States and I thought there might be people out there who would love to come trekking in the Andes but had just never thought of it.
Giving it all up? Surely not. I enjoy your posts Andy and especially the podcasts. I just don’t comment as I don’t have anything worth saying to add to your content. FWIW it was you wot put me onto tarping so thanks for that!
don,t you dare give up blogging ,it,s thanks to people like you who take the time and effort in writing your blogs that i took up hill walking again and the world of blogging would be a much much poorer place due to the information about certain reviews of kit and places to walk etc.
Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that.
Blogging can be a lot of fun when you blog about something that you really love. It’s a lot easier to speak your mind when you know the thing inside out. All the best for your trekking expeditions.