Thank you for being one of 200,000 visitors to Team Geared Up blog < http://blog.teamgearedup.com> in 2007. We’re running at a 20% return-visit rate now with visitors from an estimated 164 countries (16% are Irish). Love it! Our most popular articles were about Vibram 5 Fingers, BBC’s Live Rock Climbing, Salomon Speed Cross and the 53 Degrees North shop.

To celebrate a fantastically great blogging year we’re having our first pub-meet in Dublin, Ireland on December 27th. While it’s our first time all meeting each other (nearly all TGU authors/bloggers are back in Dublin for the first time!), we’d like it to be our first time to meet you too! Bring your outdoor mates ;-) it’s a bit of a random pub, the more the merrier and we’ll all be there for sure! Join us!

Free pint for the first 3 people brave enough to show up to go drinking dressed for their ’sport’ (and no, drinking/walking doesn’t count - I’m looking for full-body-lycra, goggles, helmets, expedition down suits and wetsuits! lol).

Date/Time: 9pm, 27th of December 2007 (This Thursday!).

Location:
Upstairs in - The Hairy Lemon
42 Lower Stephen Street
Dublin 2.

Map:

Big apologies if you’re not in Dublin and this only serves to disappoint! If you’d like to be informed of any plan changes RSVP to me :-)

*cough* *cough* I wonder if any Irish outdoor shops or publications would like to sponsor a round of Christmas drinks! Here’s hoping! *cough*

Happy Christmas all.

-Robin.

VAIL, COLORADO (Team Geared Up) - Hi all, we’ve got an invite for you! TGU are having a readers meet-up on December 27th in Dublin, Ireland. We’d like to try and gather as many of our adventure readers in a bar together to celebrate Christmas and a great year of Team Geared Up. Thanks to Aisling for kicking this off, it’ll be a super chance to meet the faces behind all the comments!

Further details will follow - but expect it to be in a Dublin City Centre bar around 9pm.

Can you make it?

-Robin-

(Image Credit: This is just to make you all jealous, me & my snowmobile in a TGU shirt on a 4,000m peak in the Rockies on Saturday, nice!)