tigger
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Post by tigger on Mar 23, 2016 12:26:05 GMT -8
Time does fly, Bluebear. All too fast. The only way I've been able to slow it down is by exercising. Seems to stretch eternal when I do that. That and the dentist chair. It goes pretty slow there too. 25 posts! But every post, more magnificent than the last. Words laid out like thick fresh butter on toast, oozing with anticipation for the first bite.
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Post by Grizzly James on Mar 23, 2016 13:27:34 GMT -8
Post like fresh butter! Well if this is so, then you certainly know how to lay it on thick. Thanks Tigger, Good to see you! -GJ
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2016 17:50:39 GMT -8
Snackcake? He always made me hungry, I don't know why... Last I recall he got a job in Montana and rarely posted here afterward. That's probably been 8 years ago, or so. In April I will have been here 10 years. Who do you suppose coaxed me into joining? LizsBaby.(sp?) I first stopped by the forums around 2003 and promptly escaped with a remnant of my sanity — without joining.
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Post by Grizzly James on Mar 24, 2016 5:32:09 GMT -8
Last I recall he got a job in Montana and rarely posted here afterward. That's probably been 8 years ago, or so. In April I will have been here 10 years. Who do you suppose coaxed me into joining? LizsBaby.(sp?) I first stopped by the forums around 2003 and promptly escaped with a remnant of my sanity — without joining. Wow. You've been around that long? Me too. Even longer, probably. Tho if we aged our online presence not by years, but by sheer post volume, then I would be just a young, spirited bear cub, where as you would be an arthritic, old dinosaur with one leg in the extinction pool. But alas, that's now how the cyber universe works. And it turns out, were both old. -GJ
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sarbar
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After being here since 2001...I couldn't say goodbye yet!
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Post by sarbar on Mar 24, 2016 6:27:30 GMT -8
Summer of 2001 for me. I was young and full of energy. Now I am old and wanna nap. Snort.
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BlueBear
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Post by BlueBear on Mar 24, 2016 6:42:35 GMT -8
September '02, for me. (For several years it listed the registration date of each member.) It wasn't the first iteration of the forums, but it was at least 4-5 versions ago.
I was 23 then. 36 now, a family and three kids later. Time flies! I do credit the place for helping me get back into the outdoors in earnest, and without the advice, friends and direct support of people I met here along the way, many of the greatest things I've been able to do wouldn't have happened, along with some great friends I'd have never known.
On a related side note: RIP, ChuckD.
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walkswithblackflies
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Mar 24, 2016 6:48:03 GMT -8
This thread got me thinking... I have no idea how stumbled upon this motley crew.
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Post by hikingtiger on Mar 24, 2016 11:16:48 GMT -8
It's like a backpacker version of the wayback machine.
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Post by hikingtiger on Mar 24, 2016 11:18:48 GMT -8
I have no idea how stumbled upon this motley crew. I showed up looking for info on Steve Roper's Sierra High Route. '01 or '02, I think. Still haven't been to Cali other than the part between La Jolla and the border. :(
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Mar 26, 2016 21:49:13 GMT -8
Interesting! I looked at his Profile and the list of his posts, the last on that list was June. But yes, in his Profile it simply says Last Online: Mar 10, 2016 at 6:28pm. So he stopped posting in June, but still looks in. Curious. About BigLoad : This list of his most recent posts shows that BigLoad last posted on Christmas Day here in a Merry Christmas thread. I do wish he would check in. And I hope very much that he is okay. He has posted many of the most clever one-liners of anyone I recall in these forums. Thanks for the kind words Travis! I've been hiding out since December and trying to get caught up on a few things, but fortunately haven't had any problems worse than getting too busy. I got in a quick desert hike in January, but nothing with a pack on since then. Hopefully that will change in the next few months.
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Mar 26, 2016 22:01:02 GMT -8
...and whatever happened to big_load? He was a voice of both reason and humor in here. I think he's going on the Scotland trip this year with some other members, but that's no reason to ignore the rest of us. <sniff> Thanks rueben! Yes, it's true I was somehow persuaded to join that boondoggle (OK, so I said, "sure, that sounds fun" at the very first mention of it). Mrs. big_load is pretty excited about it, although she dreamed last night that we were backpacking and I chose such a horrible campsite that not only did it flood, but water was actually flowing uphill to wipe us out. I guess it's time to bring her on an easier trip.
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Mar 26, 2016 22:03:51 GMT -8
Interesting! BigLoad (no underscore) has posted 500+ messages, but not since last June!He's on my follow list and it says he last logged in on March 10. Yes, I poked my head in briefly and thought I was coming back, but it took a little while to finish clearing the decks.
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Post by BigLoad on Mar 26, 2016 22:46:37 GMT -8
On a related side note: RIP, ChuckD. I had a weird coincidence associated with Chuck's passing. I was hiking in Utah at the time, and Deborah called me when she got the news, just as I heading out from the San Juan Inn in Mexican Hat. I stopped in the parking lot of a different nearby motel to take the call. The night before, a truck had overturned at high speed on the sharp curve at the San Juan Inn just as I coming out from dinner and scared the heck out of me, but the news from Deborah quickly put that in the distant past. Fast forward to November, when Mrs. big_load and I finished a hike up on Cedar Mesa (Fallen Roof Ruin). We were happy to finally reach pavement after inching down seven miles of mud road after the winter's first snow. We soon encountered a pickup truck broken down in the highway. A family from Halchita had been gathering firewood for the winter and were stranded beyond cell phone range. We gave one of the daughters a ride back home to get a Jeep to tow the truck. It must have seemed odd to her that people from New Jersey were out in the middle of nowhere in bad weather. I mentioned that I'd been around up there quite a bit, and I mentioned the truck accident in the Spring. She said she had been there that night, too, working in the office of the neighboring motel. She was working there again the next morning when I stopped in the parking lot to take Deborah's call about ChuckD. It just seemed very weird to intersect a stranger's path like that, twice, many months apart, 2,000 miles from my home and about 30 miles from hers. Sorry for the odd, rambling story, but thinking about ChuckD always makes me think of Pickle Gulch first, and then Mexican Hat.
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Mar 26, 2016 22:51:18 GMT -8
How about Esteban Brazofuerte? Ah, yes, a.k.a Steve Armstrong, Brokeback Hiker, and a couple other handles that now escape me. He came back again not terribly long ago, didn't he? I can't remember his most recent handle and I don't know whether he made it all the way to this incarnation of the forums, but I miss him. He could get a little cranky, but he had a lifetime of miles on his boots and he was always interesting.
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Post by trinity on Mar 27, 2016 1:26:38 GMT -8
Great to see you back, BigLoad.
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