QUOTE: "Or do you mean hippie tree huggers? The picture that comes to mind when I hear "yuppie" is Stephanie and Michael from "Newhart" talking about the "B-Mer".

Ors,

As far as I can tell you can put a fork in the original hippie movement, it's dead. These folks grew up and became their own worst nightmares (but just don't recognize it).

Here in the Puget Sound area they drive solo, at high speed, in their giant SUVs to get an environmental rally. They talk on camera to TV types about saving the forests while living in log cabin mansions on a pristine hillside overlooking the ocean. Being the home of REI coop and lots of Microsoft millionaires, I'll see folks clad in $3000 worth of high tech clothing and gear to go on a 30 minute day hike. A hiking stick under $250 must be crap.

You're right, they aint yuppies, but they sure aint hippies either. For now, I'll just call them "Clueless in Seattle"

TR