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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'>It was not me that started this … It was started by a totally misguided, malicious attack against one of the resources that is actually doing something to improve the CDT. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'>AJ (longhiker)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'>longhiker.pct@gmail.com</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mark Nienstaedt [mailto:mark.nienstaedt@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> cdt-l@backcountry.net<br><b>Cc:</b> longhiker.pct@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Civility on the CDT-L<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Longhiker I'm sure you are a fine person. You should check your impulses to tell other hikers to "Get over it", "Stay home", & etc., and leave off sneering about "philosophers" on the CDT-L. This is a public forum and the ethic ought to be civility. I think your substantive point that the Montana Wilderness Association is a valued organization and deserving of hiker support was a good one. But you were steadily undermining its impact with the extraneous comments. We all belong within the hiker community and should feel welcome on trail. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We all support avoiding user conflicts. It's too late in the game to keep motorized recreationalists off public lands. But it is not too late to keep them off a silent, hiker dedicated CDT. That ought to be our common goal.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Buffalo Jump Sly! <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>AT '02, JMT '03, LT '05, PCT '11 & aspiring to the CDT 2013...<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>