[at-l] AT Journeys

[Leslie Booher]

Toe-y said exactly what I've been trying to put into words.  Hear, hear!!!  While the new board may be very efficient, they aren't "us".  This is the degree of separation I was trying to describe before.  a'bear
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sloetoe 
  To: Walt Daniels ; at-L at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:58 AM
  Subject: Re: [at-l] AT Journeys


  --- Walt Daniels <wdlists at optonline.net> wrote:

  > There is a difference between the old board and the
  > new board. The old board was highly effected by the
  clubs and regions. This did not guarantee a good mix
  of skills needed to govern an organization. It tended
  to be older and frequently people who came up through
  the maintenance ranks. The current board recruits for
  specific skills, e.g. financial people, deep pockets
  or fundraising skills, ecologists, land specialists,
  lawyers, etc. This results in a board that should be
  able to give good advice on the issues facing us.

  ### Walt, you have your finger on the issue exactly,
  but what you count as a credit, we count as a
  detriment. As the Conference decided it was no longer
  to be the head of the gathered clubs  (as in
  "conference"), but instead be it's own animal, pulling
  the clubs to where the ignorant-but-good-hearted sheep
  were willing to follow, it lost its *real* root.

  Without trying to appear too esoteric, it is the
  difference between a leadership of hikers with
  expertise, and a leadership of experts who happen to
  hike. It is the difference between a 20 pound pack
  with a week of food, and a 35 pound "Backpacker"
  cover-photo wart-on-your-back (but hey, full of all
  the "right equipment"). One type is flexible,
  comprised of dual or triple use components, and able
  to handle issues with a minimum of fuss; the other is
  full of solutions-looking-for-a-problem, targeted
  single-use items, and has never been able to let a
  "good" solution be tried before a "perfect" solution
  (via high-priced consulting experts).

  In simple terms, experts don't
  Use it up.
  wear it out;
  make it do,
  do without.

  This is the backcountry maxim we all find instinctive
  even in the city, in the family, in the organizations
  we admire and participate in and lead.

  And we see this lacking in everything "ATC," right
  down to a dang name change. Owwwww.

  Hope that helps.

  Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
     Pro Pondera Et Meliora.
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