Comments on: My Changing Outdoor Image

By: Gabe Davis

Gabe Davis — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:02:46 +0000

I always find it funny when people talk about the outdoors as though it is a alien place that you need to have special expertise to enjoy. Outside is are our natural environment, everything else is what we built (unnatural). We built it for a reason…we like it. So don’t feel bad you can still appreciate a waterful even if you end the day in a jacuzzi.

By: NorCal Cazadora

NorCal Cazadora — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:10:35 +0000

See, Kristine? Your friends love you for what you are.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:23:49 +0000

I think everyone else has already said what needs to be said, so I’ll keep this simple:

Quit worryin’; you’re doin’ fine!

By: Henhouse Potter

Henhouse Potter — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:59:40 +0000

Kristine –

If I waited to write until I felt validated about it, I’d never pen a word.

I’m not the best potter. I’m an amateur hunter (at best). I still don’t like touching fish with my bare hands. And there are days when I break down and buy something at the Walmart that I feel like a fraud in the simplicity department.

The reason I blog about those things? Because they are things that captivate me. I want support while I try it all out, while I work my way through it. After all, I’m not giving instructions on hunting or fishing, or killing chickens, or composting. I’m just sharing my feelings about those things.

I enjoy what you have to say. I think your passion for the outdoors is a much more interesting read than some of the seasoned professionals out there who want to write about the hardcore aspects of hunting or a technical post about a new gun, etc…

Keep writing!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:52:32 +0000

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I feel your conflict as I have the same. Many of my “outdoor friends” laugh at me and label me “posh huntress” or something along those lines. I, too, stay in 4 star hotels and worry more about where my next meal is going to be when outdoors than what we are actually hunting. Sometimes I feel I am living two lives and wonder if my two personalities will ever come out and fight. One day I spend in a spa, the next day I am on the range. I own a gun and I scrapbook. That should be a bumper sticker.
We are only conflicted b/c we care too much of what others think.

By: wanderingowl

wanderingowl — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:51:32 +0000

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Kristine – We all don’t have to be the chest-bumping, high-fiving, TV- hunting-show types to think that we are outdoorspeople. We all come at this differently. The Mystery and Grandeur of the things outside should be enough!

And whether or not you are an “outdoorswoman”, you really are helping folks. You and the folks that started this have enabled others to find their outdoor voice, and have provided a community for them.

So you don’t think you want to go catch and kiss a catfish for the whole world to see? Try this. Go for a walk on a pleasant day and write about it. Somebody has said that they could write a book by what they see happen one day while sitting under a tree. THAT is the outdoors, and there should be MORE of it. You may be the perfect candidate for that assignment!

By: The Hunter's Wife

The Hunter's Wife — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:10:47 +0000

Kristine, I’ve always seen myself like you, indoors girl. I still do but if it wasn’t for my husband I would have never known how much I enjoy fishing. Instead of laying on a beach somewhere, I’d rather be out on the water. Never thought I would ever say that.

My advice to you is get out there and enjoy it. And then write about it.

If you lived closer I make you go in the woods with me for the first time.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:35:06 +0000

Baby steps to the bus.

I don’t think any of us are going to chastise you because you haven’t spent as much time in the outdoors as some of us have. What it comes down to is that you WANT to be in the outdoors.

You can start small, and if you find that you’re only comfortable with taking hikes down a nature trail, and not comfortable camping in the wilderness, then so be it.

I like the diversity you bring. Keep it up.

By: Blessed

Blessed — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:15:33 +0000

I enjoy the balance you bring to the world of outdoor writers. Keep up the good work both here and at the OBS.

By: Live to Hunt

Live to Hunt — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:13:17 +0000

Kristine – me thinks you worry too much! Your voice, regardless of your experience, is one that is welcomed and admired by many. I, for one, am not concerned whether you are an outdoorswoman or not, but that you have an open mind and seek to understand the many aspects of the outdoors. You are open to understanding why we hunt, fish, etc. and appreciate and reflect that in your own writings. One of the most frustrating things about many non-outdoors people is that they rush to judgement, draw wide and dramatic assumptions about our sports and ways of life, and really fail to take the time to understand and appreciate the importance of a family heritage, spending time in God’s great outdoors, and all the other benefits of doing what we do. I only with there were more of you that would engage in the conversation.