[pct-l] Campo Start Options / fat hands

[Steve Courtway]

Ah one of the great debates !   How's Tom R. doin' ?

Also, quite interesting that the use of hiking poles alleviates fat hands as 
well, I missed that part of the discussion on here due to.....SKIMMING 
probably heh heh.....Lister Mara Factor has a whole page devoted to the 
subject and the fact that hiking poles work to alleviate this....I read 
quite a bit of debate regarding this issue on an ultra running page, alot of 
folks were under the impression it was a deficit in electrolytes or salt. 
But a physiologist chimed in discounting this theory.   I may just have to 
discard my "hands free" walking approach and pick up some poles.   Maybe 
next time I'm fording a stream in sandals carrying my shoes to keep 'em dry 
(crossing the inlet to evolution lake in this case) I won't go down and get 
swamped !!!

s.c.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slow Comfort" <slow.comfort at gmail.com>
To: "David Hough reading PCT-L" <pctl at oakapple.net>
Cc: "PCT-L" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Campo Start Options


> If you want to meet up with some drug smugglers or criminals you need
> to take a walk in a major U.S. city.  The So Cal countryside through
> which the PCT traverses is not haven to either.
>
> On 1/17/07, David Hough reading PCT-L <pctl at oakapple.net> wrote:
>> I thought the danger near the border was supposed to be from drug 
>> smugglers
>> and other criminals rather than from illegal immigrants, who as you've
>> pointed out are just trying to get through as invisibly as possible.
>> They are in much greater danger from the coyotes leading them than hikers
>> are.     Or so they say.
>>
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