Hiking website

“Hi everyone, I just found this great message board and thought I would share our hiking website with other enthusiasts. You can check it out at Natural Born Hikers Thanks and enjoy.”

“Your first post here? Looks like your advertising a site. It appears like someone did a lot of work there. Only looked at a little so far and did see some beautiful pictures. Good luck.

Will you be visiting us again?”

“Hi, just sharing our adventures with like-minded folks. Yes, that was my first post and of course I will be visiting again. This seems like a very active board. Glad you liked our site!”

“Not to be rude to velodurt, but "I just found this message board" usually means "Come look at my new message board so I can get a lot of hits and get some real money from my advertising". Perfectly happy here, velodurt...”

“I don't get any money from my website. It is just a personal account of some of the great places that we have hiked. If you don't want to look at it then don't click the link. Cool?”

“Sure, that's cool, but be honest next time. If it's your site, just say so. No reason to mislead people by saying "Come check out this site I just found!"”

“The message board I just found is this one, I don't have a message board on my site.”

“Hey velo,

I checked out. Looks like a club or a group of friends?”

“I should say "I checked it out". I'm not ready to check out yet. LOL.”

“Yes, it appears I misread your first post. My apologies.”

“Yeah, don't check out yet...I just "met" you LOL. Yep, we are just friends and family who get together to hike whenever we can. Hope I'm not creating a disturbance here, I really just wanted to share our experiences. Thanks for the feedback.”

“just don't scare me like that LOL”

“I'd have to agree with bitpusher, about the honest thing, and you have to have real thick skin around here. You will get slammed pretty hard, all newbies do, your not getting started off on the right hiking boot, you better DUCK!”

“We get a lot of trolling here, velodurt. It helps to have a strong degree of skepticism.

Think of it as your "hazing" lol....”

“Ha! This place is a continuous disturbance in the order of the universe.

A new part of thebackpacker.com is the trips section. Check it out. Many people here do trips together, some approach Woodstock in attendance. There is a big East Coast contingent, big West Coast, pretty big Midwest, and Southeast. The Rockies are well sampled but sparse and widespread.”

“My apologies too, but the thick skin still applies, you have to have around here.”

“How could I have been any more honest? I said it was "our" website...”

“Welcome, Velodurt! Cool site!
...now off to REI!! woohoo!”

“cool, skin getting thicker by the minute LOL”

“I think its just a misunderstanding of your initial post. We've had people make similar intro's before, trying to lure people to a new BB they just set up.

Velodurt=Mountain Biker too?”

“bitpusher and I misread”

“So, Velo, it's hard to tell where you are located. I need more TT'ers in NM, I can't even get any together for a hike. I mostly go solo. Looks like some of your group have been to some of the Indian artifact places here.”

“Dang, you hiked ALL those places/states on your search list??? I even noticed you did some trails in my old stomping ground in the CVNP in OH. I like it.

btw - take everything you read here with a grain of salt...2-3 grains actually.”

“Good catch Pathman, yep, mountain biker too..you? We are located in Ohio and yep we have hiked every trail located on our drop-down box. We have had some great times!...and some not so great too!”

“Welcome to TT velodurt.
Sensitive types don't survive here, but a lot of hardcore hikers do.
Click on "edit account" and fill out some of the profile.
Trolls don't generaly do this and you will be viewed as a "serious" (Hee hee) poster.
If you click on a poster's name, you get their profile.”

“I mess around on a MTB, mostly dirt roads, nothing very techical. My bike is a 10 year old KHS Montana Pro, steel frame, no shocks. Don't abuse it enough to see spending more on another. Got a pretty good road bike though, Cannondale R800. Need to wipe the dust off of it too. Put a couple of thousand miles on it two years ago, commuting, but feel out of the habit.”

“Yeah, I did that but it didn't seem to take. I figured maybe it took awhile. Am I doing something wrong? I fill in the profile then click submit...”

“Sweet roadbike...one of our hikers (BP) is the Cannondale rep for the state of Washington. I have a 1987 F700. I bet New Mexico has some cool trails.”

“There are two buttons on the edit account page.
Click the "edit account" button to submit your profile, not the "submit preferences" button.
The site MAY not be working correctly yet. We lost a hard drive a few days ago.”

“Great road and trail riding in NM. Goat heads suck though.

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“edit acct seems to be working.

I just put my homepage back in. I took it out a while ago when there were some particularly agressive and singularly personal trolls.”

“I meant to type a 1997 F700...not 1987

Went back and tried to edit account again but still didn't take...I will keep trying. Thanks everyone”

“I think I have been to your site before...I remember the "Dips" photo. Has it been on the web for a while?”

“you can check out any time you want....but can't never leave{guitar solo}”

“yeah, our site has been up since 2000.”

“Good site and welcome to TT!

8)”

“!”

“Welcome velodurt! We welcome newbies here. I see you've met all the trolls. Just ignore them. They are nothing but trouble.”

“Poopinfresh, you're back?”

“Welcome to TT. I originally misread your first post the same way others did. Funny world we live in!

Looks like you are surviving your first day here OK. :)”

“Now if we can get Smokeygirl to quit advertising for REI... LOL”

“Welcome velodurt! I think I've had some conversations with you and some of your other hiking buds before.”

“That was an awsome pic Pathman!”

“Not my pic, its from Fat Tire Fiesta Website

I searched Google for goatheads and found it.

Put some tire liners in tonight. I had them in my commuting tires and road bike tires, but not my dirt tires. Had a flat with Slime and no liners within 5 miles. Slime tubes and plastic liners are the only way to go, unless you want those heavy, thick, thornproof tubes.”

“Sure, we have talked lots of times! I was on your website just the other day...I always check for updates. Cool.

Pathman, those goathead things look awful...wouldn't want to fall on one of those!”

“Falling on one is not really the problem. Hitting a patch is like hitting a bed of nails.”

“Keep checking back, there's a snowshoe trip I'm taking in a few weeks.”

“Welcome velodurt. I keep wanting to call you Veldemort for some reason.

I appreciate that you were able to calmly handle the misdirected hazing in the beginning. To be honest I was thinking the same thing at first.

I see you've done some Florida hiking as well. I live here in Central Florida and enjoyed the Withlacoochee (sp?) pics.”