<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">"The Trail is 80% complete [in New Mexico], but hikers must slog long distance between cow troughs - some of the only water sources around."<br><br>Is this considered to be promotional material or a call to arms? (OK, I get it - both, but let's not encourage prospective hikers to wait until the trail's "finished" either.) <br><br>'course, a "slog" is in the eye of the beslogger. And a cow trough is what it am. Which is to say, good enough, and statistically more reliable than a cache box full of empties in the middle of nowhere.<br><br>Minor gripes here. Congrats and good luck to the Continental Divide Trail Coalition.<br><br>- blisterfree<br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 8/9/12, cdt-l-request@backcountry.net <i>&lt;cdt-l-request@backcountry.net&gt;</i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div
 class="plainMail">------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:51:41 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: Paul Magnanti &lt;<a ymailto="mailto:pmags@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=pmags@yahoo.com">pmags@yahoo.com</a>&gt;<br>Subject: [Cdt-l] The CDT Gains New Protectors<br>To: CDT MailingList &lt;<a ymailto="mailto:cdt-l@backcountry.net" href="/mc/compose?to=cdt-l@backcountry.net">cdt-l@backcountry.net</a>&gt;<br>Message-ID:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;<a ymailto="mailto:1344480701.69811.YahooMailNeo@web112119.mail.gq1.yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=1344480701.69811.YahooMailNeo@web112119.mail.gq1.yahoo.com">1344480701.69811.YahooMailNeo@web112119.mail.gq1.yahoo.com</a>&gt;<br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br><br><br>?Nice article about the Continental Divide Trail Coalition:<br><br><br><a href="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.13/the-continental-divide-trail-gains-new-protectors"
 target="_blank">http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.13/the-continental-divide-trail-gains-new-protectors</a><br><br><br><br><br>----------------------------<br>Paul "Mags" Magnanti<br><a href="http://www.pmags.com" target="_blank">http://www.pmags.com</a><br><a href="http://www.twitter.com/pmagsco" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/pmagsco</a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pmags" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/pmags</a><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>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <a href="http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/cdt-l/attachments/20120808/0c6b2fb1/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/cdt-l/attachments/20120808/0c6b2fb1/attachment-0001.html</a>
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