[pct-l] Thank you Erik the Black!!!! Postholer, are you Dick Cheney?

[dnlcyclone at aol.com]

Thank you, Erik!!!  Your atlases look great, and your honest reviews (which put faces to names) are thoroughly convincing.  Postholer:  YOU ARE A JERK.  Point blank.  I don't mind saying it, and I wish others would, too.  You tell people to not take water from water caches, but to make sure they wear deodorant to smell good for others.  You eschew the "predatory behavior" of vendors at the Kickoff, but yet use this forum to gain access to the homes and wallets of possible consumers in order to hawk your "superior" product, when you know Erik's product is actually better.  Unbelievable.  Hiker and buyer beware.  Postholer is a total crank.  I don't mind if people think I'm being harsh, because I've had it with the haughty, higher-than-thou rhetoric from Postholer and those of his ilk.  I don't resent anyone who chooses to keep their two cents in their pocket, but I guess I'm the type of the person who likes to vocally support good people like Erik.  I'm also one of those people who doesn't mind not sitting on my hands and calling out cantankerous old naysaying scrooges like Postholer.  Good luck to all.  For those tiring of MY rhetoric, I will try to lay low, but I just can't sit by and watch guys like Erik and the rest of us be subject to truly "predatory" vending and venting on the behalf of a miser like Postholer. 

Good day, cheers, and good luck on your 2010 treks,

David & Rachel Liechty aka Deadbeat Dave and...no nickname yet...












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From:
Erik the Black <erik at eriktheblack.com>

To:
'Postholer' <public at postholer.com>; pct-l at backcountry.net

Subject:
Re: [pct-l] Postholer 5 volume Pocket Map series is now available

Date:
Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:23:13 -0700



Wow... what a novel idea **sarcasm** 
After years of bashing the Pacific Crest Trail Atlas you come out with a
nockoff product. 
Not only is it more expensive than the PCT Atlas (your biggest blowhard
omplaint over the past few years) but it's ugly and amateurish. 
Luckily for me you still don't seem to get it. You seem to think that all
ou have to do is run a trail trace over the top of USGS maps and voila...
ou've got a product!
If you want to see what two months of work looks like check out Postholer's
ew "mee too" mapset. 
If you want to see what three years of work looks like, with an emphasis on
sability then check out the Pacific Crest Trail Atlas. 
And (I can't believe I'm saying this after years of being "the expensive
aps") but the Pacific Crest Trail Atlas is actually cheaper!
LOL... you are a joke man.
At least when you were back standing on your soapbox you had your integrity.

I respected you for being the guy who advocated "free information" and all
hat. Now you are just a hypocrite opportunist trying to piggyback on my
dea.

Erik the Black
uthor & Publisher
acific Crest Trail Atlas
www.blackwoodspress.com/pct/atlas/


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-----Original Message-----
rom: Postholer [mailto:public at postholer.com] 
ent: Friday, April 02, 2010 6:42 PM
o: pct-l at backcountry.net
ubject: [pct-l] Postholer 5 volume Pocket Map series is now available
The new 5 volume Pocket Map series is now available!
http://postholer.com/mapbooks/#pocket
Southern California, Central California, Northern California, Oregon, 
ashington
This set is a complement to the larger map set released last week:
alifornia: http://postholer.com/mapbooks/#ca
regon/Washington: http://postholer.com/mapbooks/#orwa
The pocket maps are 7.5" x 7.5" maps with all the same features and 
ncredible detail of the 8.5" x 11" large map set.
The pocket map series is also available in black and white, which costs less
than half of the full color maps.
Visit the above links for all the details!
50% of the proceeds go to the PCTA for the forseeable future...
-postholer
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