Baltimore Jack Passes Away

[Greenlight]

Per Roberts Rules, I second that motion.
As much as the reality hurts, that Baltimore Jack is now walking the higher trails, we all pass some day.
I've enjoyed the stories here. The chance encounters. I haven't enjoyed as much the dissections of his personality (other places on the interwebz, not so much here), ruminations about his potential vs. his success, carping about his drinking problems, etc.

Every legend I've ever met or read about wasn't perfect.

Baltimore Jack was hiker trash royalty. It appears that is what he wanted from life, from fate, from God, from whatever or whomever grants those sorts of things. The trail was his and hikers love him. Simple as that.

Were not going to discuss if our jack was black or white or muslum or not.
He was our baltimore jack.
Its never been his name, it aint a trailname just anyone can use....
Its a designation.
Like air force one.
if, by a stroke of god one day another leaderand father figure of hiking were to come along and win our hearts.....
Well that would be a different story.
For now, we had a baltimore jack tarlin that was in fact our leader and one of our hiker nations founding fathers.
it can be stated so, because hikerdom is young and we have him to take a bearingfrom for many miles to come.

[Ron Haven]

Here is what the Macon Funeral Home has posted on line for Jack, Click on this link

[Ron Haven]

Somebody should write an obit to put on the Whiteblaze home page. I carried Baltimore Jack's resupply advice on my hike in 2007 and I wasn't the only one using it.

http://maconfuneralhome.com/book-of-...ce-details.php

[Greenlight]

That's pretty thin soup.

It did point to the ALDHA gathering link. Is his family signaling to the hiker trash community that they're being hands off?

I wish I could get away to Trail Days even for a day since I never got to meet JB and was so looking forward to the opportunity when I do my thru.

Here is what the Macon Funeral Home has posted on line for Jack, Click on this link

[Ron Haven]

That's pretty thin soup.

It did point to the ALDHA gathering link. Is his family signaling to the hiker trash community that they're being hands off?

I wish I could get away to Trail Days even for a day since I never got to meet JB and was so looking forward to the opportunity when I do my thru.

http://aldha.org/gathering.html Here is the link..

[Lone Wolf]

but that's not an obit

[solace]

but that's not an obit

Agreed LWOlf... I was with Jack for 2 weeks this year in Franklin, from Sun-up til sun-down... had never spent that much time with him. Got to know him so much better. I left Franklin & 9 days later hes gone.. I'm as crushed as alot of us are.... I knew him well... and agree we need a proper obit... anyways, I'll see you @ TrailDays... the memorials are going to be plentiful....

[Ron Haven]

Agreed LWOlf... I was with Jack for 2 weeks this year in Franklin, from Sun-up til sun-down... had never spent that much time with him. Got to know him so much better. I left Franklin & 9 days later hes gone.. I'm as crushed as alot of us are.... I knew him well... and agree we need a proper obit... anyways, I'll see you @ TrailDays... the memorials are going to be plentiful....

I agree with both of you. This was all that was posted.

[mweinstone]

Baltimore jack
Had in his pack
Half a ham sandwich
And a mayo pack
He looked my way
Saw i was a stray
And asked quite politly
had i eaten that day
I lied with my toung
And said i had some
But the growel from my stomach
Gave me away
he held out his hand
And demanded i stand
for his gift and his polite concerned way
In one gulp i swallowed
In one instant i followed
This man who was a mans man.

[mweinstone]

Today i will make 3500$ somehow and get to traildays with my bills paid . Im looking at robbing a bank robber or stealing a thiefs loot or possibly selling fat bastard to the highest bidding opposing druglord.
Or i may just draw my own money with sharp crayons as neat as i can and hope for the best.
I still have two kidneys as my ace in the hole.

[Rain Man]

Sometimes I wish WB had "Like" buttons like Facebook.

Baltimore jack
Had in his pack
Half a ham sandwich
And a mayo pack
He looked my way
Saw i was a stray
And asked quite politly
had i eaten that day
I lied with my toung
And said i had some
But the growel from my stomach
Gave me away
he held out his hand
And demanded i stand
for his gift and his polite concerned way
In one gulp i swallowed
In one instant i followed
This man who was a mans man.

[Greenlight]

Try to find a cougar looking for a kept man, on the condition that you get to hike during the summers and attend all the trail gatherings.

Today i will make 3500$ somehow and get to traildays with my bills paid . Im looking at robbing a bank robber or stealing a thiefs loot or possibly selling fat bastard to the highest bidding opposing druglord.
Or i may just draw my own money with sharp crayons as neat as i can and hope for the best.
I still have two kidneys as my ace in the hole.

[Greenlight]

Oh, wait, we're too old for that crap. Time catches up to us all!

[chomp]

That would be cool since I had that Zippo made for him a decade ago. It once listed all the years that he thru-hiked on it, but those are long worn away now.

[The Snowman]

Sad news. never met the man but he was such a fixture on the boards RIP.
" May you be an hour in heaven before the devil even knows your dead."

[slugger]

Man sad news indeed. The passing of a legend.

[mweinstone]

Ten years ago in the baroom of the doyel during billvill's july 4th feed, mem ers of billville were blazing hikers tee shirts with red or white duct tape.someone was about to blaze my shirt when i said i wanted jack to do it.
He blazed me purist.
years later, me , mala, phattchap, lonewolf, jack, tricks and tucker started at springer, a hike they called," five old dogs."
I was the guest hiker.
Very sad still . Aint had a dry day since wed.

[Lone Wolf]

Ten years ago in the baroom of the doyel during billvill's july 4th feed, mem ers of billville were blazing hikers tee shirts with red or white duct tape.someone was about to blaze my shirt when i said i wanted jack to do it.
He blazed me purist.
years later, me , mala, phattchap, lonewolf, jack, tricks and tucker started at springer, a hike they called," five old dogs."
I was the guest hiker.
Very sad still . Aint had a dry day since wed.

been thinkin' about that trip a lot. buncha arguin' goin' on

[mweinstone]

If i invent time travel, ill go back to that day in 1975 when i ran away to DWG and hobbled my way to the doyel on bloody stumps.
Then id wait for each and every one of you and hug you as if you knew me well.
Later, you all would say you once met a hiker who hugged like me.

[mweinstone]

Thats cause mala , tricks and jack make an exsplosive mix.
Your so right.