I often find myself gazing at the mountains while at work. I know that the mountains are close enough for easy accessibility, but with as many hours as I am stuck at work, I simply do not have enough daylight to get in even a day hike. So then, what am I to do?
When I arrive home after a long day at work, I like to unwind like anyone else.Whether it be spending time with my girlfriend, watching YouTube videos for hours on end, trying to research as much as possible, as many things as possible, or sleep. I do not have the energy I know that I need in order to complete a hike, or even drive to the trail for that matter. But, what can I do to prepare myself for upcoming treks?
Often while watching YouTube videos, I will watch recordings of hikers full trips, to get a sense of what they do while on their trip. How to pack my pack the most efficient way possible, how to pace myself while on my trip, what types of trails to look for, weather forecasting, layering: the list goes on. My top two favorite YouTube channels belong to Mr. Sean "Shug" Emery, handle shugemery, and Luke from theoutdoorgearreview. These two channels alone have endowed me with so much more knowledge about the outdoors, survival tactics, camping advice, etc. then I had ever thought I'd know.
While watching these videos, my drive to get my own channel up and running keeps pushing to the forefront of my mind. I have obtained video recording gear, reintroduced myself to Windows Movie Maker, I hated this program while in high school and still don't care for it, developed my intro video, and all but created the videos for my channel.
The biggest problem I am facing right now, is I simply don't know how to start. I want to start my channel, and I want to help people with my videos, but I just can't start. I'm not sure if I'm afraid of what people may think of my videos, myself, my devotion to the video categories or what may be holding me back. There is a personal sense of satisfaction from creating something new for the world, and maybe I'm afraid that I'm just duplicating videos already published because I lack any original ideas. What I do know, is there's a wall in front of me right now, that I need to overcome.
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