I responded to an e-mail from an anonymous person who expressed interest in the Buckeye/ North Country Trail in Far SE Ohio. But with their being anonymous, I have reservations regarding adding them to the registry of Adventurer's Project's supporters. I might do it, but it seems incomplete? I should probably ask if they wanted to be on the list because I'm going to have to add an unsubscribe method to email communications anyways.
How long will it take until Adventurer's Project completes it's current mission? I'm anticipating that question because I just believe that it will come up somewhere and sometime? The answer is that Adventurer's Project's objectives are not time based. That's because there's too many unknowns right now. The effort is more achievement and evolution based. Our current volunteer procurement ratio is 100 days to 1 volunteer. And I think that we need to halve that. But that's the sort of thing that you learn from year one. Right now, the more time that I dedicate to trail promotion diverts from maintenance. And we have to be real careful about that ratio.
I'm somewhat mathematic about the way that I do things. I think that it confuses some in the hiking community? But I'm not sure what to do about it. Somethings about Adventurer's Project are very well considered. You have to factor in the objectives of the Buckeye Trail Association and weigh them with the conditions surrounding the local area.
There is somewhat of a road map for this kind of thing. Let's just say that I've seen and heard of a few good examples. And I know more about some of the nuances of getting a BTA chapter started than my counterparts were probably aware of.
I'd like Adventurer's Project to have a more moderate collective disposition. And this is one thing that I think my training of others in the months and years to come will be essential?
I worked on Adventurer's Project's website today. We've been having problems with it and the e-mail systems recently. I found some parts of it internally that were incomplete. I just hope with them being fixed now that in the months to come that we get a better reception from the outside world.
A couple days ago, I made a post on the Buckeye Trail Association's Facebook group regarding deer hunting hours and how we could miss the hunters if we hiked at night. That gave me an idea where I posted on something about that topic. At that point I realized that I've been one of the most prolific night hikers on the BT and it gave me the idea that I should try some soon for content on Adventurer's Project's Facebook page.
I'm trying to keep what audience we have interested through out the winter. It's not an easy task because there's less going on in the cold days of the year. At the moment, I have 965 photos available, but I'm not sure that I'll be able to use all of them? Just for guesses, I believe that I'll only need about 90 of them?
It's like someone gathering firewood for their one and only heat source in the winter. During the warm days, instead of firewood, it's pictures and video. Right now, I'm contemplating starting a YouTube Channel for Adventurer's Project. Our pictures are hosted on the Facebook page, which is can be seen by those who don't have a profile. But Facebook will "nag" them to get one. I'm contemplating having another host for them, but it's got to integrate into the Facebook page to avoid redundancy on the volunteer end for us? For that, we might need an Instagram account?
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