<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/troller.htm">http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/troller.htm</a></span><br><br>Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to drink my coffee and eat some oatmeal. <br><br>Or to quote a movie "Lighten up, Francis".<br><br><br><br><br><br><div> </div>************************************************************<br>The true harvest of my life is intangible.... a little stardust <br>caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched<br>--Thoreau<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.pmags.com">http://www.pmags.com</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/pmags/">http://www.redbubble.com/people/pmags/</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank"
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Mags raises the question of what constitutes a reasonable compromise.
Since everything is connected, we go insane attempting to weed out all
the activities we engage in that might contribute to sullying the
landscape in some way. The cow thing is front and center on a CDT hike,
though. And then we go into a CDT trail town and order a burger and
rave about it. Nothing wrong with that, at least for the person who
sees it as just one more unavoidable consequence of modern living. But
my leg would twitch a little bit, just as it does when I read about
burger rapture on the cdt-l. This is just my little pushback is all.
Anyway, we all love windmills on a droughty stretch of trail, right! So
let's forget about taking my bait anyplace lower, or higher for that
matter, and ruminate on all the ways the ranching industry makes the
hiking community what it is.<br>
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<pre>So how DO CDT'ers manage the double entendre of supporting the very <br>industry that has spoiled so much of the landscape along the way?<br> </pre>
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<pre> <br>I imagine the same way you use electricity powered non-renewable energy going through transmission lines going through the landscape<br>so you can write your writings on an online mailing list?<br><br>At least my hypocrisy tastes damn good with cheese.<br><br><br><br><br><br>************************************************************<br>The true harvest of my life is intangible.... a little stardust <br>caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched<br>--Thoreau<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.pmags.com">http://www.pmags.com</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/pmags/">http://www.redbubble.com/people/pmags/</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/pmags">http://www.facebook.com/pmags</a></span><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Cdt-l mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
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