Trail Mail Update, 7/12/05
By Mike.
Hello Gay Outdoors Enthusiasts! Let’s **welcome** some new members to the Gay Outdoors E-Mail Trail Mail Newsletter: John Goodrich, John Hinton, Scott Decelles, Rocky, Greg Cooper, Joe Rutter, Douglas Knoy and Karl Schmitt. I’m glad you found the GO website and tossed your name to become a premium member. We’ll see you out there on the trail!
Hello Gay Outdoors Enthusiasts!
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TRIP REPORT!
Chris Griffin from Portland’s Adventure Group sent along the following trip report about hiking to Paradise Park on July 2:
Participants: Chris, Chris, Kevin, Kevin, Steve, Steven, Joe, Jerome, John, and Todd. Lots of name duplications and similarities! We took the Paradise Park Trail from an altitude well below Government Camp up to Paradise Park. The trailhead is about 5 miles beyond Rhododendron, before Highway 26 really starts to climb. The hike gave us 3000 feet elevation gain over 6.2 miles, which is quite gradual The forest is beautiful, but not many viewpoints until we got to Paradise Park. The weather was intermittently drizzly at the very beginning, and we did some hiking through clouds. At the top, we decided to do a small loop, and glad we did. The clouds opened up for a magnificent view of Mt. Hood, some of the meadows, and Zigzag Canyon. One drawback to the humane gradual uphill climb was that the downhill could seem to take forever... Overall distance: approximately 15 miles. It was nice to hike another route to Paradise Park. And we met almost no one on the trail. The quality of the trail is excellent.
---Thanks for the trip report, Chris! Paradise Park is a neat place to spend the day with its miles of trails and variety of terrain.
PICTURES!
The GO Photo Gallery has been updated with Tedd Masiongale’s HIGH RIDGES HIKE from June in North Carolina. http://www.gayoutdoors.org/page.cfm?typeofsite=photogallery-detail&id=123
I hope everyone is enjoying the pictures.
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WHO’S MEETING OTHER MEMBERS
You could be!
GayOutdoors has the hottest GAY DISCUSSION BOARD on the Internet. Hot topics this week include Status of Gay Outdoor Recreation, Gay Rafting, Adirondacks, Adventure Racing, Athletic Men and Women Wanted, and more:
Are you adding friends to your profile? Its called FRIENDS NETWORK! Post a profile, create a personal community of friends, and then meet new people or find potential dates through mutual friends. Get started by clicking here:
If you’d like to meet gay outdoors enthusiasts, looking for a roommate, have an apartment or vacation home to rent, have job openings where you work, have gear or real estate for sale, then pop on over to the CLASSIFIEDS. For example, David in Orlando, Florida is looking for a scuba diving partner. He is a professional scuba instructor seeking a "dive partner" for fun, sex, friendship and possible LTR! If interested, click here:
Another way to meet gay outdoors enthusiasts is checking to see who lives near you and likes doing the same activities as you do. You can contact another gay outdoors members who live near you and plan a trip together. Pop on over to the GO PROFILES section and click on "Find Your GayOutdoors Buddy!" Don’t forget that this won’t work for you unless you filled out key information about yourself under the Edit Info, Edit Profile and Edit Activities links. For example, meet Gary Mull from Seattle, WA. Some of the activities he likes are Backpacking, Camping, Climbing Gym, Climbing/Caving, Gay Beaches…at a strenuous level. Stats: 47…5'9"… 178… clean cut, masculine hoping to find someone with a real desire to be in the outdoors. To learn more about him, click here:
If you’d like to chat online with other gay outdoors enthusiasts to meet them and you have AOL INSTANT MESSENGER then click on "Who’s Currently Online" to determine whose logged on to the web site within the past hour and click on their AOL Instant Messenger. I’ve been involved in a few chats with this feature so it’s a great means to meet one another.
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Local Clubs/Groups can list their groups here:
GO is open 24 hours, too.
There are so many different ways available to meet up with other gay outdoors enthusiasts. Why not take the opportunity? After all, aren’t we here to GO Outdoors and Make New Gay Friends?********************************************
NEW EVENTS
THIS WEEKEND
Interested? Just click on the link beside each activity and get in touch with the fine folks running these activities, ask questions if you need to, and RSVP.
THANK YOU
…A special nod this week to folks who have given their valuable time to run an activity or two for GO. It’s a pleasure to see new folks getting in on the act, too, by running and attending the things we’ve got out there on the Events Calendar. THANK YOU from me and the other 14,500 members out there! (If you’d like to run an activity, just click here:
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FAST AND WILD SUMMER ESCAPES
Hit the road running with this guide to 6 of America's best spur-of-the-moment adventures: Sierra scrambling, southern white water, Colorado climbing, fat-tire B&Bs, and more.
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FAQ
Q: I was going to ask you if my GO membership shows up as Hyperion Interactive on my credit card statement. I recall you mentioned that it renews automatically. I saw this charge and looked up the website and it deals with gay businesses. The charge was 26.95.
A: Yes it is. You can decline it if you wish. For those of you who do renew, your continued support is much appreciated. Thanks!
Q: Where’s the website?
A: It’s either
Q: Why does the website go away from time to time?
A: The server on which the website lives is available most days, but there is often downtime, which is unavoidable. The downtime is used to upgrade the servers with the latest technology and security measures.
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TRAILS END
Let’s see…New photos out there, lots of new events, try to hype meeting other members, answer FAQs, remind folks to go to
Oh, right! GO OUTDOORS, AND MAKE NEW GAY FRIENDS! :-)
Safely, of course…
Ciao for now,
-mike-
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