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Grand Canyon hiking trails
Please make any comments regarding any Grand Canyon hiking articles/stubs here. Thanks! Notary137 23:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

On your comment regarding my rather uncharitable treatment of park service weather forecasts and my lack of citation for the same, unfortunately there comes a point when no authority is greater than one's own observations and experience; these acquire the force of persuasion (hence the posting of my pedigree in the last edit). I suppose a case study would be appropriate. After my numerous comments to NPS it seems that this is the only thing that might get its attention (I have been ignored). I am an avalanche observer for NWS/forest service, and we find ourselves often having to restrain the chicken little syndrome to keep everyone out of the mountains. If we always said it was a red day, for a week no one would go into the mountains, and then they would ignore us--forever. The professional disconnect between the folks I work for and NPS is staggering. The backcountry priorities in Grand Canyon are water line maintenance, punching backcountry permits, and wildlife field work. Since weather in itself is not a focus of study or part of NPS's inherent mission, I do find it to be cavalier about weather, and often wildly off (temps at Phantom 5-7 degrees warmer than NWS obs or model predictions). I have observed this half a dozen times in the last four years. So I have no citation except my own credibility and experience. Is it deliberate? Were I an adminstrator dealing with a vast SAR caseload annually in a transitory and largely nonverifying visitor population, I would be sorely tempted to say that Nessie lives in the river and would eat you if you get too close. So exaggerating temps would be OK if it on balance saved lives. As for studying this issue, I should call my brother, a meteorologist for FS and an NAU grad, and see if someone in Flag is looking for a master's thesis. Or maybe someone in a public admin program somewhere. Cheers. Phillowry 03:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

New River Trail
No problem. But now, you've made a red link for the New River Trail. Any plans to write an article....... ? I've ridden the trail several times, and was planning to write about it some day, (after I finish work on some of the more important rail trails in WV and Ohio). But don't let me stop you from starting an article. B-) WVhybrid 05:35, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Way to go on creating the article on the New River Trail.  I will try to find a couple nice pixs over the next few days. WVhybrid 02:04, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Creating Grand Canyon trail stubs
I've broken down and started creating stubs. Since I'm an eventualist, I believe in the potential of creating them as stubs instead of waiting until I've gathered enough research materials to make full-fledged articles. To be honest, my preference is to have these articles complete, but am finding time very scarce these days...

BTW I also added a trail infobox template and a category for these trails.

Today, I added Beamer Trail, Bill Hall Trail, and Boucher Trail. I will create more stubs tomorrow.

I am hiking later this year on the Boucher Trail, so I can add some pictures and expand the article then. Notary137 04:25, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I have a suggestion, could you put a link on the pages to a topo map? The shorter ones, at least, would fit on one page. Topozone seems to be a very stable site. Novickas 12:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Phantom Ranch
Thanks for the kudo. I've yet to make it all the way down there myself - maybe next time. About the redirect though - it still doesn't seem right; if you put "Phantom ranch" (lower case r) in the WIkipedia search box, it brings up the the original article...Can you fix that? Have you got any photos of Phantom? Am planning to keep fiddling with the article, it could use a couple more pictures, some discussion of the unique biotic zone down there, some anecdotes.

BTW, have you seen the book "Death in Grand Canyon" - it's got a lot of great stories. Was also thinking it would be nice to link the ranch and/or the Bright Angel Trail to the book "Brighty of the Grand Canyon" - that book made many people fall in love with the place. You're lucky to live so close by. Sincerely, Novickas 12:57, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, the whole "Death" book is full of irony. One of its charms. It seems to be one of those books that is gaining a slow and steady readership by word of mouth. But my daughter took it off to college with her, so I can't include any stories from it at this time. About photos - putting images in Wikipedia is a daunting process to a newbie like me - but it would be nice to have some more of the ranch. The images that are there are sort of, you might say, intimate/small scale - don't give you that overall "oasis" feel, hope I'm conveying that impression correctly. Regards, Novickas 19:51, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

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Re: Lemon heads
You probably already knew this, but the article did get deleted by DragonflySixtyseven, so you must have been doing okay. I think you did the right thing to back off and let an administrator just delete it outright. --Mr. Lefty (talk) 15:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

why the rv on street art
these are valid changes, and the external link was removed. if you're going to rv, how bout an explanation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.174.54.181 (talk) 19:19, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Redlinks are actually a great part of Wikipedia, as it encourages others on the subject to contribute an article someone else thinks is needed. While post-graffiti would probably only become a redirect, the others you removed could become legitimate articles someday.  I can assume that you want to make some good faith edits, but I would suggest leaving most redlinks in place for the above reasoning.  Let me know if you have any other questions, use my talk page.  Notary137 19:23, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I have restored some of the redlinks. I agree that post-graffiti would likely only become a redirect here, so it should not be linked.  However, I feel there is value in some of the other redlinks that existed.  My only other change was moving List of street artists to the See also section.  I have left the paragraph edit made by 129.174.54.181 as-is.  Notary137 19:43, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Archiving shortly
Waiting until Tuesday to make sure discussions are through. Notary137 05:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)