So three of the folks on my list of blogs have linked to posts of mine from the past couple days. This, ladies and gentlemen, is how stuff gets started. Just think: If each of them — plus me — has a mere 10 devoted readers, that’s 40 people right there. And if those 40 touch base with another 40, and more people create their own blogs, pretty soon, as Arlo Guthry would say, we’ll have us a movement.

In honor of these auspicious beginnings, I present the Inaugural Two-Heel Drive Blogroll:

Climb_CA at Get Outdoors denounces damn near everything ever created by the outdoors industry. Extra credit for comparing himself to “Mad Prophet of the Airwaves” Howard Beale. Another post links to a story discounting fears of bad water in the backcountry. My only comment: my Katadyn filter weighs less than a pound, makes my water taste clean, and pretty much guarantees an overnighter won’t give me the shits-so-bad-I-wanna die for a week. Like an insurance policy for my small intestines. Worth having.

Justin at My Outdoor Adventures offers three tips for hunting whitetail deer (he does it with bow & arrow, the only defensible way to hunt deer if you’re not a mountain lion). I would add Tip No. 4: Breathe no word of this to one’s animal-adoring spouse.

Out of Doors praises new Swatchesque sporks and mentions he’s been taking his art supplies out in the woods lately. I would try that except that I have the hand-eye coordination of a tree stump. I used stick figures to illustrate the first Web site I ever made — my three readers thought it was kinda cool; little did they know I had no choice in the matter.

There’s a lot of drudgery, loneliness and futility in blogging; one of the few rewards beyond having no editors to twiddle with your copy is seeing links to your site from somebody else’s. Even if your post provokes a chin-smacking rebuke, it means somebody has seen your work and cared enough to respond. The downside is that it came seem like an echo chorus or a club which only the elite can join. Overall the tradeoffs average out; if you feel you’re being left out, there’s one thing you can do: start your own blog and write linkworthy stuff on it. We crave links like news people crave pithy quotes, so trust me, we’ll pay attention.