Marmot, the outdoor kit company I like so much, just sent me their Spring catalogue. It’s full of the usual gorgeous pictures of people having fun in the great outdoors, making me ask, “what the hell am I doing slogging it out in the infinite thankless task that is my job, and not out there with all the muddy happy people in colourful gore-tex?”.
The Marmot catalogue always has this effect on me (and you might say it affects many people like this), but usually it spurs me to plan a new expedition somewhere high and steep. Many a time I’ve been inspired and gone away for a week and climbed something. Anyone want to go outside and play?
