New outdoor blogs are popping up left and right, but I’ve chosen to highlight this one for a truly stellar reason.

You see, the author used to ditch school to go the horse races.

The Ties That Bind

Mark Freeman is the Oregon Mail Tribune’s Outdoor Writer, but at San Jose State, I knew him as the guy who first discovered the diner that would sell pitchers of beer early in the day (early in the morning, actually).

One day a friend and I stumbled across him on campus. We were on our way to class. He was on his way to play the ponies.

With a background like that, it’s little wonder he ended up a writer.

Intrigued? Visit his blog at: Link to Mail Tribune Blogs » Outdoor Journal

His paper started several blogs, but pop in to his once in a while and we’ll drive the outdoor blog visitor count far beyond that of the Mail Tribune’s “lesser” blogs, scoring a significant moral victory for the outdoor world.

Or something like that.

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