polski
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Not trying to be a d*ck but I think you've fed "popular belief" - in short, that no secret is sacred with you guys - with some things you've said in that TGR thread and in comments on your own blog. So I'm trying to grasp something. Understood that your Last of the Mohicans quote in that comment thread was hyperbole, and your colleague Randonnee Andy noted further down in that thread that no "private 'secret' stashes" have been burned (is the operative word there "private" as in on private land?). At the same time, though, you seem determined to post details on some spots that have not seen the light of the intertubes before. I won't get into whether that's "good" or "bad" or whatever. But if you "join in on" a tour, what exactly do you mean by "off the record"? Would you never write about any of the spots in that tour? By agreeing to join someone else's tour you'd be narrowing down the list of places you might find on your own and then, if you are so inclined, write up. OTOH if you took your own tour to one of these spots at some point in the future, using any info learned on the earlier shared tour, and then wrote it up, wouldn't that be burning your original "hosts"?
I admit to mixed feelings about this. Of course I enjoy reading about spots (and I've paid money for the Goodman books) but in my own limited bc experience I've found a lot of the fun is in researching places on my own and then, when conditions permit, reaping pow turns in them. I get greater satisfaction out of that than if I'd followed some color-by-numbers directions, especially if that resulted in competition for fresh tracks in a limited number of lines. I'm not that bad of a snow snob, I can have plenty of fun in chop, but when I am making a concerted effort for first tracks I want first tracks ... especially if on lines I'd found and cleared myself.
