How many other AlpineZoners have you met in person?

[Greg]

I thought this might make for an interesting topic. You know when this forum started back in 2001, I never thought I'd meet so many cool people. To be honest, initially I was a bit reluctant to met up with people I've met on the Internet, but it turns out the folks I've met from this forum have all been very cool. Members I've met in person:

Charlie Schuessler - known previously from outside the forums
skijay - First AZer I ever met - Beast parking lot last March
ChileMass - same Beast trip last year with skijay
Stephen, MichaelJ, SilentCal, MtnMagic, pepsi - 2004 FOT48 planning meeting
JimG., dmc - Hunter in December
bvibert - Sundown and Beast last month
riverc0il, thetrailboss, shoeup11 - Beast last month

Hope to meet up with Bob R on Monday. I look forward to meeting some more of you in the future.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

Gee..what am I..chop liver? :lol:

 

[Greg]

Gee..what am I..chop liver? :lol:

Yikes! I knew I'd forget someone... In fact, I've met ALLSKIING too...

 

[ChileMass]

My wife initially thought I was nuts going off to ski/hike with people I had chatted with online. Hey, in the old days you went to the town hall and saw a posting for an "outing club" or a friend told you about some group, and you went to the meeting and took your chances on who you would meet there. Same thing these days, just with much better reach. I am grateful to have found this organization.

So far I have met:
Greg
skijay
Bob R
trailboss
rivercoil
bvibert
skijay's buddy Frank

I hope to meet many more of you in the future.....
:beer:

 

[pepsi]

Surprisingly even my mother prefers people I met on the internet to going alone which is what I usually do. No one that I know around home is even remotely interested in hiking, backpacking, skiing, or anything that involves actual expenditure of energy now that I think about it.

dirt_girl At the Mooseland Grill after party but looking forward to some hiking in the spring.
twigeater In the Adirondacks first and then Baxter State Park.
Frodo, Jaytrek57 After party Mooseland Grill. Too many people for much more than just an introduction but I love Frodo's hat.
mtnclimber Between Bond and Bondcliff.
Greg, SilentCal, MtnMagic, Stephen, MichaelJ At the 2004 planning meeting.
TomC Met at Garfield tentsite and in the morning went on to Galehead and the Twins before they headed back and I went on over the Bonds.
uphillklimber twigeater's kitchen, and then on to Katahdin.

I think I'm forgetting a few and I hope to meet many more. It's been amazing so far.

:beer:

 

[cantdog]

Michael J
Max
Silent Cal
Grace
Mtn. Magic
The8re
Jaytrek57
Frodo

Did I forget anyone?

 

[Charlie Schuessler]

I believe its not who you've met, but how much fun did you have.

And so far I've had a lot of fun with the nice AZ people I've met.

 

[pepsi]

Same here. Everyone has been just great!!

Have to add Yam and skier75

Didn't know they were AZ'ers

 

[Max]

Let's see:

Jaytrek57
Stephen
Pedxing
SilentCal
MichaelJ
Cantdog
DaveMetsky
Frodo
Alpinista
SherpaKroto
LittleBear
Smitty77 (can I count my own son?)

There's gotta be others that I've forgotten...sorry in advance!

 

[cantdog]

Can David Metsky find it in his heart to forgive me?

 

[SilentCal]

Tough Question, but here goes-

Greg, Stephen, MichealJ, MtnMagic, Pepsi, Frodo, Jaytrek57, Max, Smitty77, Cantdog, Pedxing, dirtgirl, skimom, Alpinista and Sherpakroto -> Met mostly through the FOT48 event and on hiking trips.

I'm sure I'm forgetting people and probaly can't put names to faces on some. I can say that I've had some great experiences with other members of this board. It's odd however that there are few crossovers between the skiing half of the board and the hiking half.

The best way to meet people is to sign-up for one of the ski gathering or group hikes that are posted in the Trips and Events. I had a blast on the Hancock Hike that was posted last year and I'm sure there will be some more planned this year.

 

[smitty77]

The following I've met at the FOT48:
Stephen
MichaelJ
SilentCal
DaveMetsky
Alpinista
Frodo
..and probably a ton of others.

I would like to get out for a hike with some of the folks here. Now if we can only get rid of this snow.....

 

[Vortex]

ChileMass, thetrailBoss, Charlie,RivercOil, Never met Greg I had to bail out today. Made 3 Small outings this year. Hope we get one more at Sugarloaf for Reggae. UphillClimber kind of also My family modeled for his picture.

 

[thetrailboss]

Let's see...

Bob R
ChileMass (a character)
Greg
skijay
bvibert
Friend of Skijay
riverc0il
charlie_schuessler (real character)

And I think that's it....

 

[skijay]

ChileMass & his friend from Berkshire East 2004
Greg
RivercOil
trailboss
bvibert
teachski
shoeup11

 

[teachski]

skijay
michael j
rivercoil
bvibert
and probably many others while I was working the New England Ski Museum Booth at the Boston Snow Sports Show...but didn't realize it.

 

[MichaelJ]

Hmm ... just going down the memberlist (and some of these people are registered, maybe from the 2003 Fot48, but don't post):

greg
mike P
pedxing (though I didn't know it at the time)
sherpakroto
david metsky
alpinista
frodo
gail (if that's gcl)
little bear
al rich (I think)
pepsi
mongoose
askus3
rbhayes
max
stephen
silentcal
michelle
nhhikergirl (was it her on my Cabot trip?)
farmer bob
smitty77
mtnmagic
sli74
swampyankee
jaytrek57
BoB (if that's "just Bob")
jenifer
teachski
nh_mtn_hiker
cantdog
blue
dirt_girl
skimom
mari
dugan

plus Grace, Sky, and GhostDog!

 

[Dugan]

Cantdog:

I can forgive you, but I'm not sure Dugan will share his cats anymore!

 

[Jaytrek57]

Top of my head:

MichaelJ, Cantdog, Dave Metsky, Sherpa, Stephen, Dirtgirl, Max (any tris lately?), Alpinista, Frodo, silentcal, Mtn.Magic,Mongoose,Farmer Bob, Sli74, Swamp,Blue, Skimom,....others I would imagine.

Never met Greg. I think he may not exist. :wink:

 

[MtnMagic]

Greg: You didn't give us a 50+ choice.

I had to meet more than 50, closer to 100 A-Zers, I'd bet. Between hiking w/you, meeting you on the trail and at the Flags planning/after hike get togethers, easily. I'm not even naming names to test my memory. (I forget!!) You know that I've met/hiked/partied w/you.

SilentCal: Other than ghostdog and I, haven't you hiked/met Sky several times? (I just hate to be in the doghouse!) Looking forward to a summer's worth of hikes w/you and Grace, btw: we start in May!!
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