Originially, the thought was to have people post their “summit” picture at Mother K or Springer and tag the year of their completion.
But I think it would be all the more interesting to have pictures of all AT hikers, regardless of direction or distance.
To post your picture, or find pictures of your trail mates… head to Flickr.com:
Looking forward to some great pictures at either end and in between!
Yearbook Editor :*)
I take it you’re looking for those who’ve completed the trail only, right? No section hikers.
Stubbed Toe
Stubbed Toe, it started out as “completions” (and I am a sectioner myself…on the 20 year plan)but I thought it would be more fun to open it up to everyone and anyone who’s been on the AT. Actually I think that sectioner’s have an advantage of getting more interesting photos on the trail since they have less ground to cover and less time to worry about dead camera batteries (we get to photograph more of the trail and not just highlights).
So, hope I’ll see your picture up there soon!
Editor
Editor, are you really an editor, or a journalism school flunk-out? Why did you write “Actually I think that sectioner’s have an advantage” …? You meant sectioners. The plural of sectioner is sectioners – without an apostrophe. “Sectioner’s” is possessive singular.
CORRECT: Sectioners (plural) have an advantage over thrus.
CORRECT: The sectioner’s (singular) trekking poles broke fording the creek.
So, “Editor,” why did you insert an apostrophe? It was not an simple typo. You intentionally inserted an apostrophe before the “s”. Your copy editor would jump your ass and give you one warning before booting you out onto the street for such a stupid move.
Grammar Coach
I would rather see a simple mistake with an apostrophe than such language such as “editor would jump your ___.” You call that a stupid move??? You need to lighten up and be glad that someone is trying to do us a favor and get something going like a Yearbook — what a great idea!
Oh Please!
“Your copy editor would jump your ass and give you one warning before booting you out onto the street for such a stupid move.” Patently untrue. Would never happen. Copy eds wield no hiring or firing power. There is no ass jumping any more in the world of journamalism, just sycophancy and careerism. Anyway, who cares? He made his point.
Blackbird
I can appreciate the grammar lesson. I appreciate even more the fact that people could look beyond the error.
Please pass the word along, I’d love to see this on-line AT “year book”/“hiker album” be successful. It has potential but needs participants.
Thanks for the help!
Editor
Limit the album to thrus only. Otherwise you’ll get weekend worriers and dayhikers posting their squeaky clean mugs up there.
One Nose
Blackbird - who cares? I care. And the late William Safire. Somebody has to stand up against the heathens and defend proper English grammar and usage; might as will be me. P.S. to America - “Gift” is a NOUN. “Give” is a VERB. The two are different. Get it right or go back to talk radio where you belong.
Mango
Mango baby. Speaking as a recovering copy editor, I’d rather be a heathen doing something good than a sleepwalking amoral drone with no underlying value system with perfect grammar (see also: Wm. Safire). Language is a living thing and none of us can stop it from morphing in common usage. BTW, “gift” is also the German word for “poison.” Did America post here? I missed it…
Blackbird
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Senior Managing Editor
Grammar Coach, are you really a grammar coach, or limited only to spotting misplaced apostrophes? Why did you write “It was not an simple typo.” …?
CORRECT: It was not a simple typo.
So, “Grammar Coach,” why did you insert an en? It was not an simple typo. You intentionally inserted an en. Your teacher would jump your ass for such a stupid move. Or looking as good as me, for
I am,
The Man.
The Man
A couple of y’all have got way too much time on your hands. Someone has come up with a great idea to put up a web-based AT hiker yearbook, willing to put a lot of personal effort into it–and all you can respond with is a bunch of petty nitpicking about the use of a few words? Worthy perhaps in a classroom but this ain’t the place or time.
Y’all need to put away the schoolmarm attire in favor of some polypro. Summer’s here. Go for a hike.
Skyline
You’ve yet to write a single correction post without making several errors yourself. I tire of jokingly correcting your posts EVERY time. Your use of commas and compound sentence fragments boggles the mind. Please, appoint yourself watchdog AFTER you’ve learned how to write correctly yourself.
Or better yet, just don’t post at all. :cheers
markv
You’re right, there’s a typo in my post. Even the best of us make a typo every now and then. Thanks for pointing it out!
However, that was a true typo, an inadvertent error. I do not think that the improper use of the apostrophe is an inadvertent error, because I see it everywhere today.
It seems that a good third of adults in our society do not know the basics of how to use the English language. I really wonder if some of these people ever attended school, when they write things like “My boot’s get crack’s on long hike’s which get’s my feet wet.” Or, when they use “your” for “you’re” or “there” for “they’re,” or make similar ignorant errors.
Most likely, such people attended public schools and were either learning disabled, or had teachers (teachers, not teacher’s) who were doing drugs (drugs not drug’s) or banging (banging, not bang’ing) the vice-principal instead of teaching the three Rs. Maybe the teachers themselves came out of the ghettos and didn’t know how to write.
If you are learning deprived and would like to avoid making stupid goofs in the future, I suggest ordering a copy of the AP Stylebook (ISBN 978-0-917360-51-0). While geared to journalists, it provides clear rules and examples of good writing, which if applied will help you stay out of the laughingstocks in the future.
Grammar Coach
I realize all this is tonge and cheek argueing about grammar or spelling or what ever. I threw in spelling because such a thing eludes me.
Having pics of current hikers sounds great to me.
that guy
Aren’t they the literary geniuses who believe a short sentence fragment constitutes a paragraph?
The Man
“You’re right, there’s a typo in my post.”
That should be two sentences. It’s not a compound sentence. It’s an incorrect run-on sentence.
“Even the best of us make a typo every now…”
It should read “Even the best of us makeS a typo…” “Best” is a superlative. Superlatives are singular. “The best (one) makeS a typo…”
These are major errors even in the first TWO lines of your 18-line post. I really don’t want to go through and correct the entire post, since i don’t have all night.
Grammar Coach, your grammar is really, truly AWFUL. Spend your energies fixing your own writing, or go back to school. You couldn’t pass freshman remedial english class at a good university.
:lol :lol :lol
markv