This Board

“Just visited the other board. What a difference.
This board is like a party.
That board is like a funeral.
This board is like camping in a wilderness.
That board is like camping in the median strip of the New Jersey Turnpike.
This board is frequented by living people.
That board is frequented by corpses.”

“I always thought this board was like camping in the commons area of a psychiatric ward....”

“That too, but that's one of the things that makes it interesting. Folks like us feel more comfortable around our own.”

“Would that be the board without a "The" in front of it?”

“That it would”

“i went there once...don't remind me! the horror...the horror...

"living people," you say? well, personally i'm an undead flesh-eating zombie, but whatever floats your boat...freak.”

“"Board of the Living Dead", one of my favorites! I was bummed when they shot the black guy at the end, tho.”

“Hee Hee. maybe we should send violin over to troll and report back on the mayhem he caused.”

“Oh the humanity!”

“hey Geobeet, where did you get your name? i know "geo" means earth or something goofy like that, right aero ;-) and beets, i know what they are... but where did ya get it? :-)”

“Beet of the Earth.
LOL!”

“Beet farmer?”

“I'll never tell.”

“You are right Geobeet, this IS fun.”

“Hey, I know, let's all get on the OTHER board and when they ask about hiking destinations to places we love, we tell them it sucks and they should go somewhere else. That way we'd keep out the riff-raff!”

“*In my best Cliff Clayburn voice* Ah, it's a little known fact that "geo" also is a northern Scottish term for a deep, narrow, parallel sided coastal inlet or cove, walled in by steep, rocky cliff.”

“And for what is beet a northern Scottish term?”

“<in same voice, only louder>
If it's not Scottish, It's crap!”

“No it's crrrrrrrrrap!”

“That's it. I'm outa here. I leave you to Violin and his feet, assuming he has any left.”

“Calm down.

Take a few breaths and think of the one whom we have to re-name "double stump."”

“He must have visited imahiker.com”

“One of the oddest (and lamest) high school mascots I've ever seen:

Jordan High School 'Beetdiggers'”

“So what do the cheerleaders do when the Granite Farmers play the Jordan Beetdiggers?”

“This board kicks all forms of backpacking @ss!!!!!

8)”

“mtn gal,
There's a lot of straw chewin' and hoe wavin'...and a lot of bib overall wearin'.

I'm impressed with your knowledge of SLC mascots.”

“I keep giving the OTHER board a chance.. but my gosh.. it is like. hey.. (speaking of those eddie bauer types on the other board) I might post here ONCE.. but i am too scared to get to know you!..”

“Hey you know me and I am cool right?

8p”

“Way cool!
8)”

“I'm more of a monogomist when it comes to boards.”

“Im with strat on this one, yall are just a bunch of posting ho's :P”

“I've also tried the "off the beaten path" board and it's just not as happening. Those folks on the other boards do alot of lip service to hiking/backpacking, but this board is full of "get off your butt and live" type backpackers. My kinda peeps.

Well, let's see here, who would you rather be around?? *scratches head and grins*

Tex”

“This board can be like a wannabe amateur comedians convention or a Don Rickles show.”

“Don Rickles? Nah, more like Steve Martin and Martin Short.”

“This board is Cool!”

“This board rocks”

“This board is alive.”

“You've all confirmed my opinion. Now that we've settled that, party on!”

“Jeez lyra, what did you do to him?”

“Ahhhhhh!!! run, run away and never return”

“That's awsome lyra!”

“I'm afraid”

“hehe!! another good one, skullmaster :-)

can i tell you guys how stir-krazeeee i'm going this week?? i don't think i'm going to make it until the weekend...”

“It is the weekend isn't it? wait... who knows i can never tell any more... every day is the weekend, i guess we'll never know”

“Stir crazy: state of mind induced by going off the trail and returning to a J-O-B. Can be cured by returning to trail.”

“This board sucks when it comes to backpacking but it's ok for a good laugh?”

“tell me about it, Geobeet!! i'm living for the next time i get to go Outside...”

“Dreamin
Just comes natural
Like the first breath
From a baby
Like sunshine
Feedin daisies
Like the love hidden deep in your heart
--John Prine

Not written about hiking or nature, but kind of on the mark

Yeah, I spend two months dreaming and planning, a week or two doing it, and two months pining to get back. It's just cruel!”