[pct-l] Legal Ponderings......

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What if you ALREADY look like Groucho Marx?????

AsABat <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net> wrote:          
              Clean   Clean   DocumentEmail                MicrosoftInternetExplorer4          /* Style Definitions */   table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";}                 On a winter snowshoe/ski trip in the Mammoth area a couple years ago (organized on-line) one of the participants (well known in the mountaineering community) punched through the snow into a snow cavern caused by a thermal vent. He was hanging by his arms on the snow with his feet not touching the ground. The group dug him out without harm. As we finished the hike he made a comment that he knew someone would post about it on the internet. Two minutes later I said “already done” and showed him my Blackberry. 
   
  When I cut my trip short this summer because of badly blistered soles, it was on several trail journals even before I got home. It didn’t bother me at all. I guess if you really want privacy adopt a trail name that you use only for the trail, don’t let anyone in your other life know your trail name, and wear Groucho Marx glasses and moustache so no one at home will recognize any pictures that get posted.
   
  AsABat
   
    -----Original Message-----
  I am simply aware of situations where people posting journal entries and emails about another hikers whereabouts on trail has caused the hikers written about to lose privacy and feel stalked.  I’m sure the writers did not intend that to be the consequence, but it’s a new reality in our real-time world that didn’t exist years ago.
   
  
  
  
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