OK, so some of us have gone over and signed up at Outdoorzy.com — Dan Mitchell, Outdoors Pro, Winehiker, Rick McCharles — now I need you guys to go back over there at least one more time and add each other to your friends lists. Because that’s what people do at social networking sites. Something else that happens at social networking sites: complete strangers who share common interests may ask to be added to your friends list. It doesn’t make you friends in the conventional sense, but it widens your range of contacts, so, say, the next time you want to hike across in Alaska, you might have an Alaskan in your circle of acquaintance. With any luck they won’t send you to a locale frequented by predatory grizzlies.

Confession: I also want all my Two-Heel Drive cronies on my friends list. A self-esteem thing — they never gave trophies just for showing up when I was in Little League and it scarred me for life. (The nice thing about Outdoozy is you start out with three friends — the creators of the site — so you won’t face the humiliation of having nobody on your list. See, I’m all about the self-esteem.)