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The man, the mystery...

I probably should have left this topic for bryan but hey, I got here first. (he's probably still at the bar harrasing the waitress )

It ocurred to us that none of us have actually met the man behind the site. In fact, several rumors have surfaced. Some say he doesn't even exist and there are those who say he's been hiding in a cave in Afganistan for the past 13 years, my personal favorite though; he's been holed up in Australia learning aboriginal knot tying techniques.

Of course when Billy showed up and said she had actually hiked with the mythical 'Joe' we couldn't believe it.

The truth is out there...

I don't know sheri,

Those photos look a little doctored to me, maybe someones been dabbling with photoshop...

Oh well, ever the skeptic, I won't believe until I've seen with my own eyes.

matt gilbert wrote:I don't know sheri,

Those photos look a little doctored to me, maybe someones been dabbling with photoshop...

Oh well, ever the skeptic, I won't believe until I've seen with my own eyes.

GASP!!!! I'm so gullible!!! hmmm *glaring at pfredricks now* Do you work for a New York newspaper, you know the one the reporter made up all the stuff for 6 mths??? HAHAHAHA

I better take off my rose colored aka sunglasses and keep an eye out for the elusive Teva Joe for myself.

Thanks Matt for the tip!

*still glaring at pfredricks* hahaha

Sheri

pfredricks is SOOO modest

he fed the beast, lent the beast his water pump & carried the beast's hiking poles

That's okay, wait 'til I post my photos later... ol' pete' will be sorry he ever met the beast
Let me just say, somebody has an odd fascination for rocks. I nearly busted a gut laughing!
coming in a few hours... oh the agony of waiting

I too, caught a glimpse of the aborition when it was in a breif physical state, rambling about among the boulders. http://hikearizona.com/phoZOOM.php?ZIP=7216
Like Pfredricks I saw glimpses all day but the legendary one was too fast for the human eye. When I was swimming the liquid pool of ice something tried to pull me under and tied my shoe laces together. I saw something in the tree tops, something staring out the door of the Indian ruins. I thought I was going mad, it was as if the door to another dimension was opening and closing.

I just reached a deal with the National Enquirer, to publish the photo on this weeks cover.

Government agents have been debriefing me all day, telling me that what I saw was a weather ballon

I just had to resurrect this 6 + year old thread. I was searching for something about teva's awhile back and it came up. I thought it was pretty funny.

What a fun thread! :GB:

I'd like to point out that everyone who claimed to have seen Joe no longer frequents the site, and the rest of us have still never seen him...

Joe Bartels; the man, the myth...

If you find the elusive Teva tracks, you may be able to follow them to the source, but you have to get up early and go a long way to do it...

I've actually seen him in person.
I gotta say I was a little more than disapointed. He was only average height, his voice didn't boom like monsoon thunder, and the animals didn't flock to his side. In fact, on the Brown's Cave Hike, he had to physically wrestle the attacking mountain lion to subdue him instead of just singing him to sleep. Oh, he still sang during the fisticuffs, but it only made the lion madder and frankly who could blame?
Fun fact- a mountain lion's heart can still beat long after being removed from its chest.

nonot wrote:If you find the elusive Teva tracks

I once followed his tracks on South Fork to this spot http://www.hikearizona.com/phoZOOM.php?ZIP=83874. I knew he had just finished lunch and was looking for desert .

skatchkins wrote:I've actually seen him in person.

Well, that's probably the last we'll hear from skatchkins...

matt gilbert wrote:

skatchkins wrote:I've actually seen him in person.

Well, that's probably the last we'll hear from skatchkins...

What a great thread! This is hilarious!

i've met bartels....he's an 8-foot, 2-ton man-monster who screams "hey bear, get the #@%$ over here so I can take your picture"

http://www.hikearizona.com/phoZOOM.php?ZIP=44660

I think I saw him on tv once something about a fire.....

ive spent my entire career tracking him, and the name tewa is no coincidence (tewa-teva)
i will find this legend.
the man in teva's fled across the desert, and the tewa followed

I thought "he" is a bot on a server is south Jersey.

te-wa wrote:the man in teva's fled across the desert, and the tewa followed

Long days and pleasant nights to you ;)

thankee sai ;)

I don't know who Joe Bartels is, but does it help that I know he once stood on the Rim Vista trail in the rain (almost 11 years ago!) ?
http://www.hikearizona.com/phoZOOM.php?ZIP=1483