Forum

Photos Uploaded

2008-10-15T21:40:21-06:00

Apparently the “Forum Announcements” thread is only for use of the administrators, so I just wanted to start a new thread here to thank Glenn for the work to post the photos. I just went through them all and am glad I did because I either forgot a few of them or some additional photos were posted after the last time I looked at them on the old site. The photos bring back great memories. Everyone who has a chance should attend next June.
Blaze

Expanding Wiki Articles

2008-10-11T19:29:52-06:00

In order to try to jumpstart the wiki I added a few bare-boned articles in the hope that some others would edit them with new information to them. For instance - in Rimbach I only ever lived at Pension Berzl, so I can’t add much to an article on the Farmhouse, Birdhouse, etc. I am trying to figure out this Categorization deal and will probably screw up a few more times and need to have Bill L. clean up after me, but I think, for all its faults in syntax, the wiki can be a great feature.

If you have good reason to think what I write in the wiki is correct go ahead and change it - things can get edited back a forth until we settle on complete and accurate information.

Changing Category names

2008-10-10T19:39:42-06:00

Bill,
In the wiki I was trying to make a change to where we had a separate category for geographic places and places we lived. I wanted to make it so there would not have be too many subcategories (at least until we have a lot of articles). In other words I was trying to bring some of the info more to the forefront without burying it under too many layers. Apparently I cannot do that because - even though I changed the categorization tags the articles still stayed buried and now there are empty categories. Sorry, but I seem to have screwed something up.
Blaze

wiki editing

2008-10-07T23:37:02-06:00

1. I do not agree with your editing of The Hohe Bogen reference to Pension Hohenbogen. The term is the Hohe Bogen ( I stayed at the Hohe Bogen, meetcha at the Hohe Bogen) which is identical to that of the mountain. No big deal it works but I believe wrong edit move on your part.

2. Also removing the sub catagory in Places of Our Gasthäuser and Pensionen did nothing to remove confusion where there was none but actually removed an editing location in a specific and growing catagory where those with more information of Our Gasthäuser and Pensionen could easily add their own house information. There is no need to list each house as a seperate place name but where the names will be linked from tales or other definitions simply linked back to the general catagory.

3. I do not agree with what seems to be over editing such as changing ASA to Army or Air Force and Army to American personell. ASA is a clear text description, Ridgerunners or Rimbachers are not ambiguous in context - remember this is a wiki by Ridgerunners to reflect OUR references and sayings as we used them not as someone else wishes to interpret them.

Just a thought

Outside Links

2008-10-06T22:59:54-06:00

I neglected to mention how to link to outside sites from within a Wiki entry.

Unlike the rest of the site’s functions, URLs are not (apparently) automatically turned into links within the Wiki. That’s OK because bare URLs as links is kind of ugly.

To link to an outside URL in any “External Links” section, simply use the standard HTML for linking:


<a href="http://www.etc., etc.">My Outside Link</a>

Talking About The Hill

2008-10-06T15:26:41-06:00

Copied here from a private e-mail from JIM MENZIE, with permission.

Bill (s) I was just going to spruce up the entry to include the Pension Hoher Bogen eg descriptions 1 and 2. as no one ever said I live at the Pension Hohe Bogen but simply said the Hohe Bogen… Though we all called the hill and the pension Hohe Bogen there are really three spellings about which I doubt anyone paid attention to back in our times there. We have from the website

http://www.pension-hohenbogen.de/

Hohenbogen the mountain range Hohe Bogen or Hoher Bogen dependant on usage.

I think this all needs to come together in the wiki ..

2. The Inn or Pension Hohen Bogen. Commonly referred to as simply The Hohe Bogen This Pension housed the largest contingent of Rimbach personell. The trick runs also began and ended here.

Note. Usage in German language will change the spelling: Hohen Bogen, Hoher Bogen or Hohe Bogen——- or something like that…

I found this part of an exchange which does a pretty good job of detailed explaination.

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Dave has it right (below) about the correct ways to use Hoher Bogen

I think the correct way to write it as two words but that doesn’t stop many people from combining the words. (The ski area writes it as one word and writes like Dave did - Hohenbogen.) When you see it on a map it is written “Hoher Bogen”. Elsewhere it almost always has a definite article preceding it and “Hoher” behaves as a normal German adjective (although in normal German it would have an umlaut - “höher”) On the Rimbach website you can see it written “Der Hohe Bogen”, dropping the “r” and sticking with the proper ending for the adjective “hoher” when following the definite article “der”.

So you get:
- Hoher Bogen
- der Hohe Bogen
- auf dem Hohen Bogen
- Er sieht den Hohen Bogen

And so on.

Even in English I often use the definite article and change the ending of Hoher to Hohen when it feels more natural to me.

The Bogen part is not really from the word “bow”. It is a reference to the Counts of Bogen who once controlled much of the Bavarian Forest. They built a fort where the TV tower now stands. That point of the Hoher Bogen crest is called Burgstall because of the Burg that was once there.

A number of times I have seen the Hoher Bogen described as a “Bergkamm mit sieben Gipfeln” - “a mountain comb (crest/ridge) with 7 peaks.” Most often mentioned are Burgstall (976 meters), Eckstein (1074), Schwarzriegel (1079) and Ahornriegel (1050). A book I saw in the breakfast room at the Pension Sonnenhof actually listed 10 peaks. The four I just listed, plus Lange Höhe (878) at the SE end Wolfriegel (915?) at the Northeast end near Burgstall and four points near the middle of the mountain - Kohlriegel (?), Schmidtriegel (957?), Bärenriegel (1017) and Pürzerriegel (923).

Linking

2008-10-02T22:00:02-06:00

The Rimbach Wiki is one of those things that’s ... well, learning as it grows, you might say. So in that spirit ...

1. Please remember to link to existing articles if you use a topic title within a new entry. (See the docs for the proper coding.) But remember, for the link to work, it must match the linked title exactly.

2. Let’s set the style for external links as going below the entry itself like this:

External Links:
Your Link Here

An example is in the “Tread” entry.

Sound OK?