With this post I have reached a milestone, my 100th post. It’s hard to believe that after about a year, I’ve managed to spew out so much drivel! At first this site was created on a whim, just to track my progress through my first Mitchell Attempt. It has really become a labor of love ever since, something I enjoy doing.
I thought this would be a good opportunity to step off the bike, talk what about I have done recently and my near-future plans for the site.
Over the last several months, there have been a ton of referrals from Facebook. I’m sure people are sharing my links, which is great, but I have no idea where they are coming from. One day had over 150 referrals, who knows from where. I decided to embrace social media and made a Facebook destination. You are welcome to click here to ‘Like’ it, or the snazzy little graphic on the right side column. I’ll be posting all of my links, probably a few pictures here and there, and little odds and ends I pick up around the internet. It probably will not be like my Twitter, where I post a lot more frequently.
I also recently added a Contact page. Rather than have to solve the spam-filter puzzle I had before, you can just type some words in a box and they’ll get to me.
My next priority is revamping my Links section. I have a little blogroll on the right side column, but I want to take it a little further. Since this site is about bike climbs across the southeast, I want to plug people into resources beyond what I talk about on my blog. I find great sites all the time that I use for myself and I’d like to share them with you. I am in the process of creating a directory of useful sites, not just blogs (although there will plenty of those, many of which I read regularly), but also bike clubs, bike shops, maps, regional news sites — all sorts of stuff. I think it will work well, and it will all be accessible from the home page via sub-menus, like the climbs sections are now.
Have a link suggestion? Send it to me via my little contact box formy thing.
I am also going to put together region-specific guides to climbing, which I may have discussed before. At some point I will publish some training guides, tips, and all sorts of things. I will always talk about my adventures, which will be plentiful in the year(s) to come.
Thanks for indulging me and I hope you keep reading.
SteepClimbs.com 
February 10th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Congratulations on your 100th.
February 10th, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Congratulations on completing your first blogging century!
February 12th, 2012 at 7:13 am
Excellent work! Your efforts have risen quite rapidly to the top of the heap. I also find it interesting to know where referrals are coming from and rely on sitemeter.com for that data along with other metrics. BTW, I don’t know if you know it or not but there was an article about you and the Blue Ridge Breakaway (your designation of it as your #1 ride last year) in last week’s local newspaper, The Mountaineer. Unfortunately, I can’t find the link to the story to send to you.
Keep up the good work! I look forward to more of your postings and will send you a suggested link via your “comment thingy”. 🙂
February 12th, 2012 at 9:31 am
Thanks for the heads up, Zeke! I found the article. Looks like they misspelled my site as ‘stepclimbs.com’ which may be why you didn’t find it. Link is below.
http://themountaineer.villagesoup.com/business/brief/community/blue-ridge-breakaway-named-stepclimbs-com-2011-ride-of-the-year/203532
Thanks for the suggestions! I added your link yesterday in the Climbing blogs section. Click on the Blogs menu above, then the Climbing blogs sub-menu.
February 12th, 2012 at 10:37 am
Keep it up, Aaron. Your well written commentary, combined with good pictures set this blog apart.
February 12th, 2012 at 11:45 am
Appreciate that, Matt.
February 13th, 2012 at 12:32 am
Wow. Found your blog via your comment on mine, and… wow.
Amazing.
I love climbing, though I am a complete hillslug with an awful power-to-weight ratio. But I’m working on it.
Again, great blog. Truly.
February 13th, 2012 at 7:14 am
Hey Fizz, thanks for stopping by. I am a strong believer that climbing is the best sort of training. Maybe one day I’ll try some of the hills in your neck of the woods. Still drooling over that Mulholland Drive climb.