My Monthly Friend Has Come

“i still dont get the "voorhees" ref. was he an axe murderer?”

“It's a halloween thing, CB.”

“yea, i know. o wait. do u mean halloween the movie? no that was michael myers.”

“Jason Vorhees was in Friday the 13th. It was my lame ass Holloween name. I was waiting and waiting for the new issue and I just found it on the table under a bunch of mail. WTF? I started getting pissy with my wife telling her she needs to let me know when it comes in. She told me, and correctly, "Phuck you. You're the one who brings in the mail.". Oh yeah. LOL!”

“That a killer Nigal! FUnny!”

“I can't wait to meet her, Nigal. :)”

“...So...I read THE article...at the local Books-a-Million...(NO, I DID NOT buy the rag...). The group the author wrote about all need serious help...and the author can claim it was a spoof all he wants but that was not the way it came out in the article....

This is not a valuation of the interaction between the group and CB, just observations on the article as written...

My impression, (And I'm entitled to it)is that the author is a self agrandizing manipulative jerk willing to risk the health and safety of everyone, including himself, in an attempt to profit by it through the written word. He readily admitted gross negligence,knew of his incompetence, and continuously placed every member of the group at risk to cover his ass...

One word of support for the group overall...at least they realized the man was a flake and packed up and left; having stated that, I must also say the group to the last member lacked basic common sense, basic street smarts applied in these instances should have carried the day here; and it's obvious I'm making the grand leap in assuming that as city folk they had any to begin with. No disrespect to Mapleleaf or Tree, or any other TT residents of large cities here...you all see/meet city residents every day with the word VICTIM stamped on them at birth, those of us who live in more rural settings do as well, no place on Earth is lacking in people who are lacking.....What is suspicious here is that ALL of the group members to the last of them were TOTALLY clueless.”

“It was a total rip off of A Walk in the Woods.”

“I found this great deal. 3 mags (Outside, the backpacker and Adventure) for $29.00 a year.

Heres the link:

http://www.halfpricedmags.com/pd_outdoor_adventure.cfm”

“I don't subscribe to Backpacker and I never have/will. But today I went to my mailbox to find a free trial issue, or something of the sort - I didn't make it halfway through before it pissed me off so much that I took it and ripped it right in two. I thought it was a very useful advertising technique on why I should never waste my dollars on that TP.

What a thing to put in a magazine "best place to skinny dip" Ok, great, now there's gonna be a flock of people to this area and they're all going to go skinny dipping right? Or the suggestion of using old eyedrop bottles for Tobasco or Bleach! "Ouch!" this one made me cringe, it would be fine if they would have said "make sure to mark the bottles clearly" Obviously if you have eyedrop containers, you use eyedrops and I just heard that emergency room story of someone putting bleach in their eyes mistaking it for eyedrops.”

“eyedrop bottles?! Yeah, that's an accident waiting to happen. Sheesh!

My REI anniversary sale catalog was annoying me today. I couldn't figure out why this one chick was so happy about stirring her cookpot. *stupid girly voice* "I just love my new cookpot from REI." tee hee.

ARG!”

“But Pixie..was she wearing a bandana and sipping out of her pink Nalgene bottle? See, of course she was happy!

Heehee”

“LOL!”

“And she looked so refreshed because her boyfriend carried every bit of gear except for her 5 outfits and makeup...lol!



Ok....I have actually seen girls like that on the trail! How do they pull that scam and get away with it? Where's MY packdonkey?? I have boobies!!”

“Need a donkey?
How about a goat?”

“Yeah I know what you mean about backpacker.
It didnt piss me off for the fact that i am use to some of the advertising methods because some Paintball magazines did similar things.

Are there any other hiking/backpacking magazines that are good that i could check out?”

“Hey! I like my bright pink nalgene! I can actually see it when it falls in the dirt, versus the clear and grey ones we have!”

“sarbar, I think those chicks don't really bp and their boyfriend wants them to go. They use their lack of experience and gear as an excuse not to carry much. Or the boyfriend thinks she's a wimp and can't carry much. One or both of those scenarios.”

“I keep thinking of Synchro and my's last trip we went on together...I was wearing a 5600 ci pack..and he had a 3000 ci pack on..what was wrong with that picture? I'm 5'5' and he is 6'4" ... smart man....lol!”

“LOL!”

“Frantic, Outside is okay but the best IMHO these days is National Geographic Adventure. This month they had a pretty cool article on hiking in the Rockies.”

“Cool, Thanks Ruby. I am gonna check that one out.”

“I had two Backpacker Magazines come within three days of each other!”

“well it came yesterday....and actually I was surprised...this was a better issue then there has been in a long time. Two articles I liked...the one about the history of Yellowstone and hte lost trail, and the Preserving Paradise Glen Canyon article.

What I didnt like: on page 52 the "social climber" advise guy...says its ok to leave your trail partner in the dust...I must disagree and think that is a reckless statement to say... sure its ok to go ahead...but agreeing to be a trail partner instead of going solo to me means that there is a partnership...an agreement to not go to far astray.”

“I try not to hike out of earshot from a partner if it's just the two of us. For my own sake as well as his/hers. One of my best buds broke his leg in high school real bad, so he cramps up now from time to time, but we always wait for him. It's not a race. It's supposed to be relaxing right?”

“i don't pay attention to a word that dumbass says... he pisses me off every time i read that column”

“Talking about 'monthly friends' - no, not that, I'm a polite Canadian, ya know - I popped over to my mail box in NYS for my Outside. I took them up on their offer of 25 issues for US25$. Each issue has come with a second mag - Travel and now Gear.

When Outsideis good it's very good indeed, but it's pretty lame (just fashion) this month.”

“I loved it when he said its ok to wear cotton LOL Great...now theres going to be double the amount of dayhikers wearing nothing but cotton getting lost in the wilderness and dying from the elements!”

“tapping foot....well, you've missed about 4 in a row, I suppose you're showing by now?”

“He's too busy playing Gran Turismo 3.”

“If the monthy friend hasn't come in the past 4 months, doesn't this mean Nigal's pregnant?”

“I think his sub ran out.”

“Ruby bought him another one this past Christmas.”

“I think I wrote "CANCEL DAMMIT!" on enough re-subscription bills to get them to stop it.”

““Ruby bought him another one this past Christmas.”
dayhiker
11:46:55 AM
7/15/05


Well then, there is no excuse for that slacker! ;-)”

“He's a slacker with or without the blowing off his duties here.”

“Yeah, what they said. I have been waiting impatiently. ;) He must be preggers.”

“You sure are ornery for a woman who just climaxed got some new shoes.”

“If you saw these shoes, you'd be ornery, too. They are truly that good.


And you know what? Nigal has to share some of the responsibility for my Italian shoe fascination. He is the one who gave me a shoe book that featured some outstanding classics. After drooling over the pages, I decided I had to have some of my very own.”

“I've heard of pages getting stuck together, but never in shoe magazines....


...chicks are weird.”

“Holy s---!!!!

I was just perusing the classified section in the Septembet BP mag and noticed an ad for a fuzzy blue thing, like a drink holder or something, with a clip on it. I thought "Okay, what the heck is that?" It's an ad for liberator.com's "Bedroom Adventure Gear." How have I not noticed bondage gear in this magazine before? I'm sure someone here has.”

“What the hell are you doing reading bp mag? I'm a bit disappointed, thought you new better than that.”

“Shame, shame!

BP Magazine, sold in the XXX rated bookstores everywhere.

treebait - Did you find the equipment for which you were searching?

LOL.
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“I made a reservation with a Florida state park and they had a "Pimp BPer mag" promotion (that you were signed up for by default) so we got a year of joy free.

Then Rodale immediately sent a us bill after bill for the mag.

#&%!$ers.”

“LOL! There having a big sex furniture blowout sale right now!”

“Cum to one of their convienent locations or cum oneline. Or take it both ways!”

““I made a reservation with a Florida state park and they had a "Pimp BPer mag" promotion (that you were signed up for by default) so we got a year of joy free.

Then Rodale immediately sent a us bill after bill for the mag.

#&%!$ers.”


Geesh! Backpacker Mag is the Columbia House Record Club of the periodical media world.”

“yes they are.

Here's a FREE* year of backpacker!















































*for the new low price of $19.99”

“Haha, you guys are sick!

I've seen sex aid ads in most magazines I read, even ones you wouldn't think, like Vegetarian Times and Natural Health. But the bondage thing there is a little much, LOL!!”