TV Question - Thru Hikers

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#1 
														Hello!

Random email here! I am a development TV producer at Crybaby Media in NYC always on the hunt for new shows and larger than life characters!

Currently I am developing a show on thru hiking! We want to hear your story. Looking for the most intense thru hikers who wouldn’t mind breaking records or some sort of milestone this up coming season. However you are hiking… you are doing it in a very unique way. The hikers we are looking for - hike alone, know how to survive in the woods, travel light, and are determined to finish in a certain amount of time. So wether it’s the Appalachian Trail your hiking, the Great Divide or the 100 other long distance hikes in the U.S. - we want to hear your story and approach!

If this is you OR you know would would be perfect - please call or email anytime! Look forward to telling your more about the project!

														_Crybaby Media_
#2 
																	This is nothing but a gratuitous solicitation to turn thru-hikers into a spectacle and a commodity, with zero differentiation from all of the other crap so-called reality tv programs that have come to infect the psyche of American mass culture.

The key words in this solicitation are that they’re looking for “the most intense thru-hikers.” They want to play on an unfortunate but growing trend toward competitive pursuits along our national scenic trails, and basically put all of that on steroids, encourage you to do it for all the wrong reasons, just as long as you make good copy and give good face. Just think how much easier it is for these NYC media fly boys to troll for their next Bear Grylls or Johnny Knoxville (perhaps a mutant hybrid of the two?) than to go through the usual casting calls and write up fabricated “real world” scripts. Screw all that. They’ll just take you as you are, then turn you into a big wet mess of low-hanging fruity media crapola. They’ll push all the right buttons, stroke your ego all along the way, with the cameras and the entourage, the sycophants and the sumptuous restaurant meals and nights in fine hotels, well away from the trail corridor. Somebody will fall for this crap, and the trail community will be the poorer for it. Better yet, please hold on to some vestige of your dignity while saving the trail some of its dignity aa well. The long-distance hiking experience is better than that, it’s a separate world, an ideal world where their version of reality ought not tread. This is what’s hanging in the balance. Please make the right call and send the Crybaby back to his crib.

																	_trail community_
#3 
																	'sumptuous restaurant meals and nights in fine hotels'

Exactly my thru-hike - how did you know!

																	_'05 thru hiker_
#4 
																	I telephoned Miss Priscilla Goodbody, the NBC Censor. Gave her a few examples of trail life and what happens on a thru-hike. I mentioned to Miss Goodbody I'd thought these would be fine ideas to use on a TV reality show.

She hung up on me.

Datto

PS: I didn’t even mention that Kathy Ireland business.

																	_Datto_
#5 
																	CryBaby Media's diligent spammer, per multiple solicitations to just about every trail forum and lightweight gear manufacturer in America in recent weeks, is actually one Lisa Germain: lisa at crybaby-media.com  Go ahead and pitch her the script Datto.

																	_trail community_
#6 
																	Okay, so I'm sleeping with many AT thru-hikers overnight in a church basement.

An hour after falling asleep I’m awoken to the sounds of groans of great pleasure.

I sit up and take out my earplugs. Just to, you know, be sure.

The next day I’m sitting on the edge of a shelter taking a break and another thru-hiker approaches and says to me, “Did you hear that last night?”

With a straight face I say to her, “Yeah, that was something. You can’t get that back in Indiana.”

Datto

																	_Datto_