[pct-l] Pocketmail

[Slow Comfort]

Hey Trekker,

I love the Big Bend country.  I got memories man.  I hiked and trekked that
country for weeks about 35 years ago in my hippie days.  I still got some
lightning blasted crystal and a couple of garnets I picked up out there
somewhere.  My wife and I were lost in that country for 3 days but we did ok
on cactus and stream water...lucky for us it was spring time.  Love that
country.

Slow


On 2/13/07, Trekker4 at aol.com <Trekker4 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>    I used Pocketmail for my first 475-mile section hike on the PCT in '05,
> and my final 125-mile section hike on the CO Tr in '06; I'll definitely
> use it
> from Agua Dulce to S Kennedy Meadows this spring; I'll be there about
> three
> weeks before 15 Jun, so I may go hike part of the CDT, the GET
> (Blisterfree's
> Grand Enchantment, not the Great Eastern), the AZ Tr, or the Hayduke to
> try to
> get in about two months total this year.
>    I've never had any problems with it; I use lithium AAs, which last at
> least a month. It's been involuntarily tossed about 10 feet once (I was
> just
> hiking along typing on the keyboard when I tripped, and it went flying.),
> dropped
> several times, and gotten a bit wet once. I just subscribe for the three
> months I need it each hiking season.
>    I use some of the features to keep expense records, daily mileage
> records, and ratings of different dinners. I also write short stories on
> mine. I
> compose daily trail condition and water reports for those that want them,
> for
> whatever trail I'm hiking. In other words I enjoy playing with mine while
> hiking.
>    I just saw Pickaxe Pete on Still Walking, so now I know who he is. Last
> summer I had the honor of having dinner with Gudy Gaskill, who bulldogged
> the
> CO Tr into existence in just 10 years, at the home of the trail
> maintenance
> supervisor where I left my car in Durango CO; apparently Gudy had never
> seen a
> Pocketmail. In spring 05, I met the founder of the PNT, Ron Strickland, in
> a
> snowfield in southern CA; he'd possibly never seen a Pocketmail before
> either, or
> at least never seen one being used.
>
> Bob "Trekker"
> Big Bend Desert Denizen
> Naturalized Citizen - Republic of Texas
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