[at-l] Re: A Walk in the Woods

[gadog430 at charter.net (Gadog430)]

MY GOD...LET IT GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dawg



----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard C Evans" <optimyst@gmail.com>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Re: A Walk in the Woods


I was there.  And I call 'em like I see 'em.

Happy trails,

Solar Bear

On 5/27/05, Snodrog5@aol.com <Snodrog5@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 5/27/2005 2:34:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> optimyst@gmail.com writes:
> I'm sensing nothing like
> the trail community I've been working with the last few years.
> -------------
> Do consider creating gossip about a "hostile, closed-minded audience" and
> "the myopia (and bloodlust) of a segment of the membership" positive
> contributions toward your work with the Trail Community? I don't know if
you were in the
> lecture hall that day in Hanover, but a list member who was there wrote
this:
>
> "People at the Gathering had a variety of opinions about the book, but my
> impression was that it was largely a friendly crowd that gathered to hear
Bryson
> speak. I didn't detect either myopia or bloodlust.
>
> Bryson agreed only reluctantly to speak -- probably because he knew his
book
> had almost nothing to do with the Appalachian Trail or long distance
hiking --
> and then simply didn't show up at the scheduled time.
>
> We sat around for awhile. Finally word came that Bryson wasn't going to
show.
> So we discussed the book in his absence. I sensed the pro-Bryson folks
were
> clearly in the majority."
>
> I was at that Gathering too. At that time I could count on one hand the
> number of hikers I knew that cared one way or another about Bryson or his
book.
> Earlier, regarding a question about this topic, a wise list member posted:
"Read
> the archives. It's been talked to death, extensively." You might consider
the
> small number of current comments on this topic a measure of just how much
list
> members care. Until negative remarks were made about the AT Community no
one
> bothered to comment at all.
>
> Teej
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