[at-l] Keeping it a hiking discussion?

[athummingbird at hemc.net (athummingbird)]

OT

Wow!

Well,  Miz Scarlett, it seems your "cry of indignation" brought the Rhetts and the Ashleys out of the woodwork. Maybe someone will arrange to re-route the trail through a golf course for you out of sympathy. But then, your post about leaving was meant to bring on that response, wasn't it? By the way, getting drunk is fine for a golf bunny, but folks on the trail  know that it dehydrates you.

By the way, all you gallant fellas who helped Miz Scarlett regain her hollerin' form: so glad you've finally found something sportin' to talk about. Maybe y'all can get together, chew the fat and play a game of Monopoly some time.

I sent the following to someone about the situation as quite a few folks on the list, including me, see it:

If analogies work for you, may I submit for your approval: a convention of acoustic guitar players. Some play bluegrass, some folk, some Americana, some jazz, some blues, some bossa nova, some Celtic, some classical. They all listen to each other's music regardless of style, because they all love the sound of acoustic, unamplified guitar music, and the endless repertoire of nuance available to the medium. Now, here comes a Metallica freak with a Marshall amp and a flying wedgie, screaming music so loud that it drowns out the acoustic music. Some acoustic musicians complain, but the Metallica freak insists everyone else's music is passe and old and boring, and just as long as he occasionally plays Elvis's "Love Me Tender," he has just as much right to be there as everyone else. Welcome to the Twilight Zone...

Kelley, I am glad you read the post from Jim and Ginny Owen. But judging from your response, I am not sure you read it carefully. 

To put it in a nutshell, Kelley,  I have nothing against humor and asides. But when someone takes center stage, does the quasi-hikers' karaoke, and stays there all night, the establishment loses clients. That goes for anyone.  Recently, Nimblewill Nomad's webmaster, a sweet-dispositioned, wheel chair-bound quadraplegic, passed away. He held hikers in high regard, and lived "on the trail" vicariously - through Nomad's journaling, and through reading posts on hikers' lists. A couple of months before he passed away, he stopped reading the AT-L posts because they were getting too frivolous. The mystique was gone, the atmosphere too party-like. I guess you are just the straw that broke my camel's back.

I know I will get a barrage of reprimands now. Frankly, I will let that fall on deaf ears, for I am getting off for a while. To all of my hiker friends: see you at the Gathering this fall!

By the way, my trail name is not "Dutchy."

Dutch Treat

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KellyGoVols@aol.com 
  To: spiriteagle99@hotmail.com ; at-l@backcountry.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:14 PM
  Subject: Re: [at-l] Keeping it a hiking discussion?


  In a message dated 7/9/2003 10:00:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, spiriteagle99@hotmail.com writes:


    Hang in there, Kelly -

    Walk softly,



  I think we all, meaning the people currently posting to the list, need to get out and HIKE.  I did, and feel much better, and feel more capable of contributing to the hiking part of the list, and less of the "campfire" mumbo jumbo.  Like I've told others off list, I was just throwing a temper tantrum, and that I had Post Vacation Stress Disorder.  I really, really did NOT want to leave Rogersville.  And I really don't want to leave the list.  

  For the record, I read EVERY SINGLE POST and don't respond simply because I feel inadequate to post an intelligent response.  I am learning, though.  Once I do a thru-hike, I'm sure my posts will be way more trail related.  I'm hanging in there, Jim.  Only two more years and I'll be posting journal entries like a deranged writer.  

  GoVols 


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