Trip Report request.

This site requests:  Month Day, Year, Location with the example: June 23, 2007, Mt. Rainier, Camp Muir corn; This shouldn't be too hard to do or violate the poster's sense of personal privacy.  It is just common courtesy.  IMHO.

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Seems like just honoring the request in the guidelines would solve the problem. To argue that including the general area where a TR occured would "stifle creativity" is pretty weak. If a TR author is so concerned that revealing the general location would be "spoon feeding" and would ruin the spirit of exploration, maybe the TR shouldn't be posted.

(Shrug)

I believe the exact quote was "very regional and parochial" .

My solution is to have the three-volume set of Beckey's Cascade Alpine Guides within arm's reach of my keyboard. Works for most of the places I'm likely to go.

Carry on... 

yes, thanks Lowell, I had forgotten the actual words, but had filed them in my mind as "local and straight-laced".  Colloquial refers to something being local or regionally based, and just happens to sound like parochial, which also refers to local and narrow but is typically used in the pejorative these days..  I had wanted to avoid the 'straight-laced' part (drift), although it is a fair subject for another day.

But we are very regional-centric.  And pretty much by design ~ not that there is anything wrong with that ~ although I for one would favor a somewhat larger playground.  But love it or leave it, right?

Most trip reports are a form of bragging...

... so you are on the webz and cool, give some general info for folks other than the chummy club.

Maybe I'll rethink my own etiquette and post my secrete stashes for the stoke

Not sure I want to know where your secrete stashes are.

lee lau was right ~ this place is colloquial.

Colloquial refers to something being local or regionally based, and just happens to sound like parochial, which also refers to local and narrow but is typically used in the pejorative these days..  I had wanted to avoid the 'straight-laced' part (drift), although it is a fair subject for another day.

Since our great CEO-TAY has already deemed this "one of the saddest threads ... ever ... on TAY", it seems like a grammatical/usage correction would only enhance that status further. So with apologies to everyone:

The word colloquial means "conversational", and only that -- it has absolutely nothing to do with "local" at all, even though it may sound faintly similar to "local". LeeLau was definitely not trying to say that TAY was "conversational" in his original comment .

The two words come from very different Latin root words, so they are entirely unrelated. "Colloquial" comes from the verb loqui, which means "to speak", while "local" comes from the noun locus which means a "place" or "site". Maybe taking 6 years of Latin (over 2 decades ago!) was good for something.

OK, Amar, you are correct - which is why I said 'refers to', instead of 'means', or 'defined as'.   Colloquialism is informal speech, and FWIW, from Wikipedia,  "Colloquialisms are often used primarily within a limited geographical area..."

Only 2 years of Latin for me..  goes to show, eh? (colloq.)     

edited to correct spelling of 'said' from 'sad'    :