[pct-l] Trail Journals

Tue Jan 22 10:05:35 CST 2008

Alison Rose <a.rose at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Thanks Gail.  You can check out my journal at www.eatme.com.  

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WOW... I did not expect to see a porn website.  I like to read Trail
Journals but do not think this belongs on the PTC List..

Cheers,  Marge  ( the old gal)

: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net] On
Behalf Of G. Lowe aka Wheeew
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:06 PM
To: Alison Rose; PCT 

From
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Trail Journals

I rest my case. 

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----- Original Message ----- 

From: G. Lowe aka <mailto:gailpl2003 at yahoo.com>  Wheeew 

To: Alison Rose <mailto:a.rose at sbcglobal.net>  ; PCT
<mailto:pct-l at backcountry.net>  

Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:59 PM

Subject: Re: [pct-l] Trail Journals

Follow????  Follow who???  You????  That wouldn't be pretty.

Please forward  your trail journals web site address to me.  I have yet to
receive it.

As far as "drama queen', consider a humor transplant as well as a lesson (or
two) in humility.

In the meantime, I accept your blanket apology issued to all members of this
list.

Wheeew

Alison Rose <a.rose at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 

YIKES!!  You'd rather gouge out your eyes than follow somebody's
recommendation?  What a drama queen.  A few suggestions were made to
journalists who place their product on the world wide web.  Where's the harm
in making suggestions?

----- Original Message ----- 

From: G. Lowe aka <mailto:gailpl2003 at yahoo.com>  Wheeew 

To: Alison Rose <mailto:a.rose at sbcglobal.net>  ; PCT
<mailto:pct-l at backcountry.net>  

Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 7:21 AM

Subject: Re: [pct-l] Trail Journals

Favor:  Would all those post-ers that came up with "rules" for Trail
Journals please send me the web addresses of THEIR journals, so that I might
critique them??

And this:  If anyone writing a TJ IS following all the suggested "rules", I
can promise you, I will never, EVER read your journal again!!!  

The point missed is this:  TJ's are (or should be) for the AUTHORS
enjoyment, not the readers!!  If the readers should enjoy them as well, so
much the better.  But write them for your OWN enjoyment.  Not all writers
are created equal.  Like most people, I am inept at many things in life, and
proficient at others.  The unmitigated arrogance of thinking that I, or
other TJ authors "owe" you a "performance"  or need to follow a RIGID set of
guidelines DICTATED to us is a shameful slap in the face to those who take
on the labor-intensive act of keeping a TJ.  

I would rather poke my eyes out with a phillips head screwdriver  than
follow the suggested "guidelines".  Let's hear if for artistic freedom!

Hike On!

Wheeew

Alison Rose <a.rose at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 

Dear Dr. Bob ~

A very good point indeed and I, for one, certainly thank you for making it.

A whiney, long-winded, self indulgent journal should be kept private. That

being said, the well intentioned advice is offered to those who
specificially

wish to post a public journal for the world to see.  As most will notice,

those journals will be read by somewhere between 20,000 and 150,000 people.

Many read these journals in preperation for their own hike, so providing
some

of the recommended information is a tremendous gift to them.  Thus, if

you want your journal to be interesting and relevent, kindly follow the

recommendations.  If not, as in Dr. Bob's example, keep them private.  And
I,

for one, will thank you.  Thank you, thank you very much.

One thing I like about trail journals is their wide diversity, reflecting
the individual.  The fact that all journals do not follow the same terse
guidelines helps one with insights into differing personalities and the
trail day as experienced in differing ways by different people... the
essence of HYOH.  Besides, for whom is a trail journal written?  Is it to
entertain or educate others and written with an eye to avoiding critical
comment?  (Gee, should I write this...?  I may be viewed as "whining.")  If
so, some might suggest it may be flawed from the outset. I use a MP3 player
to talk into as I hike. It's in my front pocket and several times a mile I
grab it to record thoughts, sightings, people's names, as well as host of
comments on my physical state of being that I want to remember as part of my
trail experience.  Example: Whew, did I just have projectile diarrhea! (No,
not this posting, folks).  Sometimes I ramble on (just like this post,
folks). I am guilty of writing more a trail diary than a log or journal.  It
is precisely because of comments like the well-intentioned guidelines
suggested below that I have never publicly posted my four trail "journals."
While I sure enjoy reading other accounts occasionally, mine proudly include
whining and stay deliciously private.  :)

Dr Bob 

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