Jeudepuissance wrote:
In creating the wintertrekking forum and being an early adopter of Youtubing his trips, he was a pioneer in sharing outdoors experiences and creating community in online spaces. He created content before people had jobs as "content creators" and when more people gathered in forums rather than massive social media platforms and when the internet was generally much less commercialized. All this to say that he is alive and doing his thing and perhaps he's a bit of an enigmatic character in that at a time when people were clamoring to build their online presence and gain followers and fame he did the opposite: turned of the lights and went radio silent.
If that is the case kudos to him. but wintertrekking was such an awesome forum I don't see why he would have not given someone else the opportunity to take over hosting/admin duties.. Heck, even I would have lent a hand. It seems strange because when I saw him speak at a winter camping symposium (I can't remember the date but it was pre covid) he seemed 100% invested in being involved.. I have to think something else is at play here.