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Re: [at-l] Re: Huh?
At 08:55 PM 5/28/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Wait a minute, and go slow for me here. People are okay to criticize a
person
>who at most has crafted a business that enables others to get more enjoyment
>of and hike a safer and better prepared hike (I am speaking of the slack pack
>tour and not the authors who have put out various guide and advise books
>about the trail),
This is interesting! Exactly why would it be okay to make money writing
books which help hikers but not okay to provide person-to-person help for
$$$? Aren't both "making money from the trail?
>without that person asking for such opinion, but NOT ok to
>give honest feedback to someone who asked what people thought about an
>intended trip that would place the person away from an infant child for the
>length of a thru hike? I think that there is a major problem there.
The problem is not in honest opinion but in personal condemnation. No one
asked for that.
Saunterer
Jim & Diane Bullard
PO Box 5, West Stockholm, NY 13696 USA
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