Originally Posted by
Driver8
Jake, don't be a jerk. YOU PM'd me first with an unpleasant message. I responded as I saw fit. Now you decide to take it public. Is that not an abuse of TOS? I think it is. Since you outed the private conversation you started and I told you I didn't want to continue going back and forth with you in PM after saying my peace, I will be happy to share what I wrote to you, in substance. Here goes, don't say you didn't ask for it:
I am not afraid of speed OR distance. I personally am thrilled that, after a lot of hard work, I travel twice as fast now as when I took up hiking as a major hobby summer two years ago. I hope to years from now I travel similarly faster and am lighter of weight and healthier yet.
My problem with you is not that you hike fast. It's that you appear to have this chip on your shoulder about how fast and how far you hike and how much faster and further than others, and you can't seem to stop yourself going on about it like it makes you a superior person. I pointed out to you that while I respect that you are fleet of foot and skilled as a rock climber, things which in MOST members of this board I would enjoy learning from, I find it repulsive that you, unlike so many very smart and very skilled hikers and climbers here and at Views from the Top, that you, almost alone, Jake - almost but not quite - have this need to lord your speed over others. "I'm way faster than you. Hell, I did Wildcat and Carter in a day, it was a snap." The truth is, there are plenty of people here and elsewhere, for what it's worth, who are plenty faster than you, as I also pointed out to you, or plenty more interesting, people such as Hugh and Trish Herr, Chris Dailey, DMOutdoors, much less a Honnold or a Stoeck. And none of those people feels the need to come here and pop off about how awesome they are, because they have class.
So yes, I did encourage you to put a sock in it, to stop popping off about how you're better than some others because you hike faster. I also told you not to PM me anymore in my FIRST reply to you. You violated that and replied, but I said once was fine, but no more. So far, you have at least honored that, but now you show the lack of discretion and respect for privacy, without my permission, to take our private conversation public. That's too bad, but I guess it's of a piece with your well-established pattern here. All hail and bow before the mighty Jake, he who can hike 25 whole miles in a day. Wow, ain't he awesome? Jen Pharr Davis surely is shaking in her shoes.
And yes, this is a mean post. And a waste of my time. And it upsets the comity of the community. And I regret all that. But you, sir, are the one who PM'd me first, and you are the one who took it public in this thread. Grow up and learn some manners. And for heaven's sake, spare us going on about how awesomely fast you are. I get the idea that if you passed me on trail, I might just turn and hike in the opposite direction just to make sure not to run back into you, lest I die of boredom hearing you prattle about how fast you can cover ground. There's so much more to like than miles per hour. Figure out something more interesting to say about yourself, if you can.
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