[at-l] Wingfoot bashing

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

Belch---We aren't going to the press with any type of slander about Dan,
just a request that they use someone else to be the spokesman for the AT,
that he's not the spokesman we would like to see used.  That statement
doesn't require any comment on how we feel about him as a person, just that
we think he's not our best representative.  It's really pretty simple.
Actually, I had forgotten, until you used the word "press", that I was the
one who started this thread in the first place.  Sorry, all.  I didn't mean
to do that.  But, I do still think we need to write the previously mentioned
publications and comment.  Rhymin' Worm would be a good spokesman for us:
he's thru-hiked more recently, he's written a book about his hike, he's the
editor of all the ATC materials, he's up on what's going on with the ATC and
the trail, he's available most of the time for the press to contact, and
he's literate.  All that works for me.  Who else would be a good
spokesman/-woman?  What criteria do you think that they need to have?
anklebear

-----Original Message-----
From: Dawn Stringer <stringdm@yahoo.com>
To: Jim and/or Ginny Owen <spiriteagle99@hotmail.com>;
at-l@mailman.backcountry.net <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Date: Monday, March 26, 2001 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Wingfoot bashing


>
>--- Jim and/or Ginny Owen <spiriteagle99@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>There's
>> a very large difference
>> between having seven years of experience and having
>> one year of experience
>> seven times.  Think about that one for a while.
>
>By that logic, does that mean that a person who
>teaches 9th grade english for 5 years has less
>experience than someone who teaches 9th, 10th, 11th &
>12th grade english in a span of four years?  I use
>that analogy because I was an education major, and it
>was something we discussed at length in class.  Yes,
>someone can have the same experience each year, if
>they so choose.  In teaching, it's easy:  Use the same
>text, the same lesson plan, the same tests, etc.
>Basically, be inflexible, and not take into account
>the personalities of each class being different.
>Heck, you can even end up teaching the same class 7
>periods a day, if you are that boring of a teacher.
>
>However, on the AT, or any other trail for that
>matter, I find it hard to believe that one CAN be
>inflexible.  Every time you go out there, it's
>different:  the weather, the people, the season, the
>wildlife, the memory of what it was the last time...
>I've hiked the Del Water Gap to Bear Mountain section
>of the AT millions of times, at different intervals,
>different ways, etc.  Does that mean that I've had the
>same experience all those times?
>
>Also, by that logic, you are discounting a very
>brilliant person, who I do hold in high regard (and
>will admit to being a BJ lover), because he has hiked
>the AT an obscene amount of times as well.
>
>Yes, I do agree that both Jack's and WF's knowledge is
>not as broad as mine will be when I finish the PCT,
>but let's not discount the fact that they hold quite a
>bit of knowledge on thru-hiking the AT.  When I
>labeled WF a "seasoned thru-hiker," maybe I should
>have labeled him a "seasoned AT thru-hiker."  It's
>semantics, I know, but I see where I erred.
>
>Anyway, the point of my argument was not that people
>not discuss WF, and maybe it was semantics, or the
>fact that I waited so long in piping in that I was a
>bit defensive and accusatory in my ramblings.  The
>point I was trying to make was that I did not like the
>fact that people were talking about undermining what
>WF has done, going to the press with unsubstantiated
>claims that he has never really thru-hiked, and
>basically slandering him.  It wouldn't have mattered
>if it was slander against WF, you, Jack, Waterfall,
>Mags, Datto, Kelly Sue, Kahley, POG, Gimme
>Chocolate... whomever.  Slander is wrong, regardless
>of who is being slandered and whether or not the
>majority likes the person.
>
>Belcher, Anti-Slander Activist
>
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