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[Craig Stanton]

A friend sent me these in a care package at Stehekin and I didn't get  
eaten.

http://photos.pct2007.org/pct2007/Stehekin_to_Manning_Park.html#86


On 28/01/2008, at 9:40 AM, At Rerunner wrote:

> Fishermen in the Sunderbans wear masks on the back of their heads to
> thwart tiger attacks
> http://savingwildtigers.org/savingwildtigers/images/icnl14-75.jpg ; i
> wonder, would such a strategy make PCT hiking in cougar country any
> safer? Maybe a controlled study with hikers with/without masks and
> with/without backpacks full of catnip and/or concentrated deer-scent
> would be in order. Perhaps a new cottage industry would be born out of
> the perceived need for titanium/cuben-fiber/carbon fiber backward
> masks, or, we could just outsource the mask-orders to the fishermen of
> the Sunderbans, so they could just make hiker/biker-masks and not have
> to fish in tiger infested swamps....
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