You’ve got Trail?
Is a .pdf okay?
Obviously, they’re there so you can see if anyone in the group looks like a creep.
Kinda like the SDMB photo thread?
Ohmygosh! I may have an internet stalker RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT!
What? I’m ugly? Okay, nevermind. (mutters) Always the Bridesmaid, never the Bride…
Hint. You cannot save this situation by finding out where they will be hiking and following them to demonstrate you are not a creepy person.
I’d say write an apology going something along the lines of:
I’m really sorry.
I genuinely didn’t think what I did was creepy.
I asked my (real life) friends for advice, and they bluntly informed me that it WAS creepy and then proceeded to explain in detail how it was creepy.
I have seen the light.
I apologise for any trouble I’ve caused you, or the lady in question.
Dean
Or something similar.
Don’t burn bridges needlessly - at worst, a hostile stranger becomes slightly less hostile.
+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
You did nothing wrong wanting to find out this information, but never never go to one of these authority types to get it. Would you have say in college gone to a teacher or principal to ask contact info? Of course not, all they would do is give you stupid trouble just like you got. They are on an ego trip and you fed it, he will think he stopped a serial killer.
What to do was go on a hike and if she is not already there ask other REGULAR PEOPLE there who she is. Just as you would ask classmates in a school who someone is, see now? Don’t believe that the girl knows about your efforts either, authority types love to lie and act like others are backing them up. It is no different than a TSA agent taking someones water bottle and later saying he intercepted and stopped terror violations today to his family.
What to do now is join a nearby hiking group and ask if any had been members of that other one when out on a hike, and show a picture and see if any knew her, they could have seen her at similar events too you know even if none were members of that group. I imagine many belong to several groups and pick the best hikes that way. . Don’t involve any asshole authority people, that is the lesson to learn here. They will never help you do anything.
You’re joking, right?
That would turn the situation from creepy to stalking.
The boat has passed, forget about it. Just move along.
You think he’s kidding, but read his other posts and you’ll realize he isn’t.
No, the thing to do would be move on and find another girl who likes to take fucking walks.
See this OP///////\
That right there?
Yeah?
Print it out.
Got that?
Good.
Now piss on it.
Now hold a lighter to the sodden mass and burn it.
There ya go.
Now, if anyone gives you advice like that again, imagine them as an evil leprechaun on your shoulder telling you to burn things - treat their advice accordingly.
Just send the organiser a link to this thread. 
(And tell him you’ll never attempt to join his group. 
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Huh? What is wrong with the advice? Are you saying you have had luck getting contact info from any kind of an authority figure, because I do not believe it. Say you see an attractive person at work, do you go to the manager there and expect them to give her contact info? These kind of folks are on an ego trip they are some kind of authority and guardian (as well as some who want to use such info for themselves as well) and just asking normal everyday members is always the way to go.
Some dumb authority types will even try to make no dating rules and such in groups and in workplaces, you never heard of that? Tell them nothing, they will never help you and will try their best to hurt your efforts, just like shown here.
This is not middle school. When mature adults see someone they would like to interact with, they approach that person directly rather talking to others about them. That person can choose to give out whatever information they deem appropriate.
imho,
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What is wrong with your advice is that instead of one authority figure thinking you’re a creep, every member of the group is going to think you’re a creep.
Wipe, I find it so much better to find out if the person is even single and dating before approaching them, for instance. I was not referring to starting gossip or something like that. The person might be gay or married and it avoids embarrassment for both. You can always ask as part of a larger question about several people so it would not appear you are just interested in the one. You might find several are single and they might look a lot better to you then too.
That’s fine. Ask friends of friends. Don’t ask random people on the internet.
Yeah, I’m trying to think of how it would read with my co-ed baseball league. If some guy no one had met yet, had signed up for baseball, then went through the league’s on-line gallery, and emailed the league about one particular woman, it would totally set off the Creepazoid Early Warning System.
The comparison to Tom Cruise made it worse because it sounds like you were using their photo gallery as a shopping catalog. It’s not going to come across like you signed up to take part in the activity, and then found the pic, it’s gong to look more like you saw a pic of some hottie online and signed up under false pretenses to meet her.
ETA: What the heck? This thread is four pages? :smack: