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PostTue Mar 03, 2020 11:22 am 
Malachai Constant wrote:
If you ever met Harvey you would know he was the farthest thing from an elitist. lol.gif
LOL! I saw ole Harv and Ira drinking Rainier Ale on top of West Tiger three one July night in the 70's. Its my opinion that the highest concentration of hikers and hiking was the 70's. I dont think people are hiking the way they did then. I dont see as many people as I remember seeing in the 70's and 80's. There are a heck of a lot more distractions these days then there was then. If I hadn't started taking my nephew hiking at four years old he wouldn't naturally have gotten into the sport. As it happens he and I have hiking continuously since then. He's been on a couple hundred hikes and he loves it. He trys to get his friends to go and they complain its to hard!!!

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PostWed Mar 04, 2020 8:40 am 
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quote="Kim Brown"]I have a Mountaineers annual that describes a backpacking trip Manning and Betty took together before they were married, or just after, to the Olympics. It rained like a bastard, it was cold as hell, and they huddled in the deep roots of trees because they didn't have a tent.
Do know which annual that is in. I would be interested in reading it.[/quote] Well, it must be in a Pack & Paddle 'zine. I have most, if not all, of those. I'll keep digging though. I like the article and think about it every time someone posts a hand-wringing post about what kind of coat they should wear. You take a guy like Manning, or so many others in the past, and even now - hardy souls - who wouldn't give it a second thought. Just go buy a f**kn' coat, and go. clown.gif

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PostSat Mar 07, 2020 2:19 pm 
Thanks for checking Kim. I thought it might have been in the "Cascade Voices" book. There is an interesting interview with Harvey Manning but I didn't see anything about the hike in the rain how ever he does talk about a stormy night up on the North Fork of Bridge Creek.

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PostMon Mar 09, 2020 5:16 pm 
Elitist, certainly in the financial sense, is clearly the wrong word. So is probably "snob" which the OP used. I've never met Manning or Spring... haven't even read their books for years. So probably shouldn't have cited them. But certainly there's a current group of people who... believe their way of doing things is the only way to do them. Hiking? OK, yes most anyone can do it. Anything else? Not OK. Here's a vaguely related article : https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.2/social-justice-why-a-wildlife-biologist-became-a-social-justice-advocate?

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PostMon Mar 09, 2020 5:44 pm 
Jessica Kutz, quoting Sergio Avila for HCN wrote:
And by learning history and meeting other people, I realized that that was made up — that pristine wilderness is a lie. And the traditional Western conservation model only cares about places and nature without people.
nailed it right there. up.gif

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PostMon Mar 09, 2020 10:13 pm 
WaState left us hanging. Now we'll never know the answer!

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PostMon Mar 09, 2020 10:28 pm 
Cyclopath wrote:
WaState left us hanging. Now we'll never know the answer!
Well whether hikers are snobs is more interesting when one considers the evolution of the word snob over time:
Merriam-Webster wrote:
Why Were Shoemakers 'Snobs'? The word wasn't always so hifalutin. People love facts. Especially those of the small and neat variety, which present a minor and triumphant bit of knowledge with a hint of seeming incongruity. You know, the kind you can pull out of your pocket at a dinner party and score a guaranteed hit over cocktails. Unfortunately, this is the sort of fact that often finds itself paired with a spurious etymology. A fine example of this is the claim made about the word snob: The word ‘snob’ is said to have arisen from the custom of writing “s. nob.”, that is, ‘sine nobilitate,’ after the names of children of untitled parents in certain English schools. — Norman DeWitt, The Classical Weekly (Pittsburgh, PA), 1 Oct. 1941 In the early 19th century it meant “a person not belonging to the upper classes; one not an aristocrat.” The author of the above citation hedges his bets, only going so far as to claim “it is said,” rather than making a stronger declaration. We must inform you, however, that if this is the charming etymological fact you’ve been using like an amuse-bouche at dinner parties, you should find a different one, as the word snob does not come from sine nobilitate. Sine nobilitate means “without nobility,” which makes it feel as though it could be the origin for snob. The only problem with this is that the various senses of snob which are concerned with social class and suchlike were not the first meanings of this word. When snob first began to be found in print, it was used as a term for a shoemaker, or cobbler. …But alack a day, the unfortunate snob had entirely forgot the use of his tools while the money lasted; which heaven knows was not very long…. — The Female Porter of Shoreditch, c1750 Her love Snob thought firm as lump butter, That the breath of her lips were as fresh, And said things no cobler could utter, As he press’d the doe-skin of her flesh. — A New Song Called the Village Crim. Con. Or, Snob versus Snip, c1750 But the last of the Cobler is said to relate, There’s an end of the poor Snob, but no end of his fate No Mortal came near him, no Shroud could he have, No Coffin prepar’d nor no care for a Grave. — The Vocal Medley, or, Universal Songster, 1755 The Snob, and the Taylor, The Seamstress, and Weaver, The Butcher, the Baker, Brewer, Scullion and Waiter. — ‘Cincinnatus,’ The Patriotic Mirror, 1781 Epitaph on a Cobler. Here lies poor Bob, An honest snob, Who us’d to doctor Christians’ souls; Grim death, alack, Gave him a thwack, Which cast his thread, and broke his awls. — The Western Country Magazine (Salisbury, Eng.), Jan. 1790 No one knows why we used to call shoemakers snobs, although it seems fairly clear that this meaning was the first one intended by this word, beginning in the early to mid-18th century. The Oxford English Dictionary has evidence indicating that the word was next used in Cambridge University slang by the end of that century, to refer to a denizen of the town, rather than of the college. By the 1830s snob had taken on meanings that were directly related to class, but not in the way that we use it today. This early 19th century sense was “a person not belonging to the upper classes; one not an aristocrat.” In the middle 19th century the word took on the meaning of “one who blatantly imitates, fawningly admires, or vulgarly seeks association with those he regards as his superiors.” He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob—perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. — William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs, 1848 I’ll teach you how to behave to your superiors, you condescending snob of an aristocrat. — Maude Howe, ”Phillida,” in The Ladies’ Home Journal (Philadelphia, PA), May 1890 Finally, by the beginning of the 20th century snob had come to be used to mean “one who tends to rebuff the advances of those he regards as inferior; one inclined to social exclusiveness.” He was in trade, he said, and was proud of it. He was an American through and through, and there was not an inch of the snob about him. — The Nashville American (Nashville, TN), 11 Jan. 1901 And I had never been a snob about birth or position or money or even intellect, perhaps not even about breeding. I have always had friendly relations with tradespeople and servants. — Abby Meguire Roach, The Louisville Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), 28 Dec. 1919 If you can transform that story of snob into the sort of anecdote that crushes in polite company, more power to you. Or you could look for an etymological anecdote which has not yet been debunked; there are a few of them out there still. Merriam-Webster: proudly ruining your chit-chat since 1843.

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PostTue Mar 10, 2020 10:07 pm 
Well now you've explained it perfectly. People who want the only access to places by hiking are often snobs. Because they make their money on hiking boots. The ATV crowd goes through boots less frequently, and therefore has no need for a snob.

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PostWed Mar 11, 2020 6:07 am 
mb wrote:
Well now you've explained it perfectly. People who want the only access to places by hiking are often snobs. Because they make their money on hiking boots. The ATV crowd goes through boots less frequently, and therefore has no need for a snob.
I’m getting slow. Took me a minute.

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PostWed Mar 11, 2020 2:40 pm 
Look, if you have to complain that those superior to you are "snobs" then you probably deserve the treatment! A better approach is to level up and out compete them.

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PostWed Mar 11, 2020 5:07 pm 
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I’m getting slow. Took me a minute.
Ask your snob about retread options for increased speed and agility.

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PostWed Mar 11, 2020 6:07 pm 
So has it been determine whether or not hikers (good condition, go uphill, steep and fast) are anti-family? That's the question; not snobbery.

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PostWed Mar 11, 2020 7:38 pm 
mb wrote:
Brushwork wrote:
I’m getting slow. Took me a minute.
Ask your snob about retread options for increased speed and agility.
I could use that.

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PostWed Mar 11, 2020 7:44 pm 
Kim Brown wrote:
So has it been determine whether or not hikers (good condition, go uphill, steep and fast) are anti-family? That's the question; not snobbery.
Hmmm, If there’s any correlation with hiking and anti-family ness, it might be that the anti family ness is not a result but a precursor.... ok, let’s not open that can of worms. We’ve got enough worms going around.

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PostFri Mar 27, 2020 6:47 am 
Sorry guys , that I bailed on this thread , I just got feeling too negative. Good day

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