Wow.<div><br></div><div> Matt, I'm new to the CDT but I've done my share of trail angeling and a fair amount of backpacking. I've stayed in some truly nasty places too. People providing shuttles and lodging and helping hikers are not exploiting anyone for money. They may not be altruistic but they are being helpful. I have no personal experience in Deming but I do know at least one injured hiker who was very appreciative of the help he received from these very angels. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I know also that keeping guidebooks up to date is not an easy chore either. The fact is Yogi charges for her books and it's a miracle that she bothers to do it at all. I doubt she's getting rich at it either. We should be thankful that she does it. We should also be thankful that Keith and Mary have been at it over the years. Many of us are happy to have a person we can call in a strange town.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I plan to start at CC so i have no dog in this fight. But hiker's with a sense of entitlement don't do any of us any good. </div><div><br></div><div>bamboo bob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><br><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Matt Signore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpsignore@gmail.com" target="_blank">mpsignore@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Where to start. I think most of the word of mouth from NOBO's is what kept the SOBO's away. Cat piss and ashtray smell is not what hikers come to the CDT to experience. Sorry. </p>
<p>Or maybe trail angel is a misnomer. Closer to a man in it for the wrong reasons (money) is more apt. Trail angeling is a labor of love.</p>
<p>Maybe it was not your ommission from the Yogi guides, but your online attacks of her and your snarky comments about her. Yogi didn't put you in her guide. That doesn't excuse you from dragging her through the mud. If you have nothing nice to say... </p>
<p>Maybe all or maybe none of the above are reasons for the avoidance of your "hospitality". </p>
<p>Worldwide</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 11, 2012 12:47 AM, <<a href="mailto:ks1007@aol.com" target="_blank">ks1007@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent"></font><strong><em>as our final season as trail angels draws to a close I wanted to say that some of it has been fun - especially meeting some of the youth of the world - on the down side learning that hikers were complaining to yogi about me was pretty much the last straw - everyone that signed our register with such flowing words of appreciation and then apparently contacted yogi with complaints was it </em></strong></div>
<div><strong><em>basically I will continue with my same services as before it's just that our house will not be open to hikers - I will continue to pick up hikers at the bus station and take them to a hiker motel - will tell them where the water sources are and will contact willie for them and we will cache water for the nobo's - our place will still be a water source - oh yeah, I will tell them about the best mexican food places in town that are not in yogi's book</em></strong><br>
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