Dan Bruce Farewell Party

[The Weasel]

Is there any information about the "Farewell Party" for Dan Bruce that his website indicates is for October 15? Where/when/what etc? Is anyone going to it?

The Weasel

[Lone Wolf]

www.trailplace.com/farewell/ty/thankyou.html
i sent a $1000 check

[SGT Rock]

Did he cash it?

[Lone Wolf]

no. he has it up for sale for $2000

[Skidsteer]

no. he has it up for sale for $2000

Now that's freakin' funny right there.

[SGT Rock]

Ohhh, I better send him my check then.

[dixicritter]

Dadgumit y'all gonna make me move this thread.... LMAO

[SGT Rock]

I gotta say I got hooked right into playing the straight man for LWolf on that one without knowing it. But that was the funniest thing I have heard in at least two days. I busted a gut on it.

[rafe]

60,000 hours of volunteer work, eh? Hmm. Most Americans work 2,000 hours a year at full time jobs. WF was still in "thru-hike-every-year" mode until the early '90s.

So WF gave 30 years of full-time labor to the A.T. -- in a span of 15 years -- in addition to $450K of "his own" cash? Just wonderin', you know.

[SGT Rock]

I think it is all how you look at it. He considers "his money" everything he got in book sales and donations. That is his right. It also includes any other money he had from any other source.

But "providing services" is an ambigous term that means making a house payment in Hot Springs (for The Center for Appalachian Trail Studies), feeding the staff of "The Center for Appalachian Trail Studies", keeping The Center for Appalachian Trail Studies in clothes, travel expenses for the staff of The Center for Appalachian Trail Studies, entertainment expenses for The Center for Appalachian Trail Studies, overhead costs for The Center for Appalachian Trail Studies, and printing costs for the Thru-Hiker Handbook, and any other miscelaneous expenses to keep The Center for Appalachian Trail Studies open and the staff happy.

As to hours, well if he didn't spend 20 hours a day in front of his computer monitoring every post to his site(s) he may have been able to get out and do something else.

More than 65,000 hours in 25 years - well that includes hiking time I am sure. And it includes an average of about 7 hours a day for 365 days for the last 25 years.

[fehchet]

My friend, you actually took the time to figure all that out! I'm impressed.

[SGT Rock]

It only took a few seconds. From here on out I am creating "The Center for Hiker Sniveling Prevention and Hiker Integrity" I am accepting donations and plan to publish a book on how to pay for the services you use on the trail as well as set up a program to help people quit sniveling about things that are within their own control.

I plan to donate all my money henceforth to this as a trail service and plan to contribute more than 8760 hours a year to this project as a service to the trail community. I will be accepting pre orders on my $25 book and PROMISE to have it out before the start of the next hiker season.

[rhjanes]

My friend, you actually took the time to figure all that out! I'm impressed.

That explains why WB slowed down....all that number crunching....

[Heater]

no. he has it up for sale for $2000

That was funy...

[Shane! Come Back!]

I am creating "The Center for Hiker Sniveling Prevention and Hiker Integrity" I am accepting donations...

My $1,000 donation is in the mail.

[camojack]

www.trailplace.com/farewell/ty/thankyou.html
i sent a $1000 check

I'm sure. NOT!!!

[Gray Blazer]

Who's wingfoot? Hermes?

[The Old Fhart]

Austexs-"That was funy...

...almost as funny as this line from the farewell party blurb. (emphasis mine)

"Millions of hikers have benefited from Wingfoot's work for them over the years."

[rafe]

"Millions of hikers have benefited from Wingfoot's work for them over the years."

Strangely, that claim may be true. OTOH, just as true to replace "Wingfoot" with the name of any other volunteer, volunteer organization, or anyone who's contributed, over the years, time or cash to ATC or any of its many member groups. David Startzell makes a "similar" claim in this month's AT Journeys, but with a critical difference: he refers to it as "our work."

You know, I'm grateful for the man's contributions. But as always, in awe of his monumental ego.

[The Weasel]

Still hoping for someone to answer the question: Does anyone know where/when etc this "party" is being held? Or is it "vaporware"?

TW