last year there was a hiker claiming to be wingfoot, writing 'comical' entries in the registers
last year there was a hiker claiming to be wingfoot, writing 'comical' entries in the registers
Gaiter
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last year there was a hiker claiming to be wingfoot, writing 'comical' entries in the registers
Wingfoot talked about that on his website. Said he never identifies himself on the trail...which shouldn't be a problem since he hasn't been on the trail for 10+ years.
What an Ice hole. I can't believe someone would have the guts to steal your name. Sounds like a serious case of identity theft to me. Have you run a credit report lately. He could be racking up hostel charges in your name. I would be on the next bus and leap frog my way up to kick his Ice. The nerve of some people.
The mountains are calling and I must go.......
John Muir, September 3rd, 1873, letter to Sara Muir Galloway
I'm pretty sure that's a different fellow. He's been going by Iceman Dan since he hit trail this season.
Don't know him, but his family's super nice. His mom loaned me a car in Knoxville last fall. I was hitchhiking through, trying to get home, and the way she treated me I started wondering if I'd accidentally gotten back on trail somehow.
"when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." --HST
Uncle Silly VA->VT '05, VT->ME '07, VA->GA ??
Richard Kuklinski of New Jersey is the only true Iceman. All you wannabe Icemen need to "take a hike".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kuklinski
Well I have been watching this with interest. Here are some of my observations.
1) Get over it!
2) The trail, as you should know from having already having hiked it once ,determines who you are not your name.
I would say that either you forgot these things from your first hike or never learned them.
TOG
(Use my name if you want I really do not care one way or the other.)
FINALLY!!!! The solution to people needing a trailname when someone steals theirs!! BECOME A WINGFOOT!! Dozens of Wingfoots (Wingfeet?) on the AT, on other trails, blue blazes, yellow blazes, hellfire blazes and just general blazing blazes!!!! No one can be mad at a gazillion Wingfeets (or whatever), and all of them combined will have every admirable trait possible!
Thanks, Wolf! Great idea. Love it.
The Weasel
"Thank God! there is always a Land of Beyond, For us who are true to the trail..." --- Robert Service
"Thank God! there is always a Land of Beyond, For us who are true to the trail..." --- Robert Service
The REAL Iceman was Albert Collins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Collins
I met the other Iceman and stayed with him in a few shelters. From CT. Nice guy. Anyway, aren't you THE Iceman. So that's different. And this Iceman plans to get off for the summer and back on in the fall. SO you'll get a break that way.
I found your trailname by the side of the trail, but it melted before I could mail it back to you...global warming, you know....
Tell the truth,Iceman,didn't you really steal that name
from Val Kilmer after "TOPGUN" came out in 1987?
Oldfivetango(now that's a unique moniker)
Keep on keeping on.
Interesting observation, Oldfivetango… Got me thinking…So I Googled “Iceman” and got something over 4 million hits. Like the frozen mummy found in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, (who evidently died there in about 3300 BC, and who is now reported to have been MURDERED!) Check it out…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman
Or in the comics…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceman_%28comics%29
A notorious mass murderer…
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou...linski2/1.html
A legendary sports figure…
http://www.wvu.edu/~physed/blacksports/fall2002/georgegervin.htm
And, absolutely one of my favorites for all you Seabiscuit fans… George Woolf. (Hmmm… His trail name could have been Lone Woolf!)
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=6304&aid=19
The list goes on and on… Once you start looking, Iceman is everywhere!
BTW… How did that other guy get the name “Iceman” anyway? Perhaps he just gave it to himself. Perhaps he showed up at a shelter with a case of Bud “Ice” and he got ‘hung’ with it. So, to his trail buds (oops) he’ll be Iceman. To yours and those who visit Whiteblaze, Iceman, you’ll be Iceman.
I just hope you’re not wearing the same hiking outfits when you finally meet. Whoa! And if you get the opportunity to hike together, other hikers will refer to you both as “Icemen.”
Personally speaking, I think thru-hikers should change their trail names about as often as they change their underwear. Really keep ‘em guessing!
When you get to those unexpected situations in life where it’s difficult to figure something out, just ask yourself, “What would MacGyver do?”
See ya!
Rickles McPickles
You could fight with this guy over the name http://www.icemanmma.com/
If a man speaks in the forest, but there is no women to hear him, IS HE STILL WRONG
I remember this.. according to the entry, there was a Wingfoot sponsored happy endings massage circle at Baxter State Park, no girls allowed....
I think this whole trail name originality thing is stupid.. of course there are going to be 10,000 Iceman's, and if you ask me, there is only one true iceman, and thats Val Kilmer.... Top Gun....
I was named on the trail, and it fits, and there are others with the same name.. who cares??? I think Iceman, and many other posters to this thread are missing the point of trail names..
-El Duderino
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau
just change your name to maverick and he can be your wingman, anytime