Michael Musto is a regular contributor to this blog via the “comments” buttons after each post. He has just commented upon my previous post about all things Alpine and I think his words deserve a promotion from the Championship that is the comments section to the Premiership of the blog itself. He writes;

Michael lives in Vancouver, Canada, the place with all the snow problems for the Olympics (call me euro-centric but I never consider Winter Olympic Games to be real if they are not in the European Alps; they just don’t look right anywhere else!). He contributes to Crazy Guy on a Bike, a website that has the tag line “A place for bicycle tourists and their journals” and I have just been reading about – no, stop; I didn’t read much of it – let’s be honest – I just looked at the pictures – so I have just been looking at some of his pictures from the trip that he refers to above in southern British Columbia. He was actually cycling there while I was making my way down the Pennine Cycleway last summer.

I can’t argue with his advice, all of which is relevant to me… I have also added his “tentative pile of crap” picture to the equipment section of the blog. Keep reading Michael and keep commenting; I promise to read more of the text when I next visit your own site.