PIGEON POST
Letter of the month
THE ARTICLE ‘Subscribe to outside’ (August 2020) confirmed for me that I’m on the right track.
I’ve started a private Facebook group called ‘Lunchtime Hikes’ for an invited list of friends and close colleagues – all women in their 40s and 50s.
When I’ve spoken about my tramping trips, where I’d been and what I’d seen and heard, various responses would usually start with ‘oh wow – I’d like to do that but…’ – insert any of the next phrases to finish the sentence: ‘I’m not fit enough’, ‘I wouldn’t be able to keep up’, ‘I don't have the right gear’, ‘I'm not brave enough to do that’ or ‘aren’t
