[pct-l] weather from the trail

[Donna "L-Rod" Saufley]

That is exactly what I said and I didn't feel bad at all . . . but they showed up here all the same. Then they wanted to know if we could give them a ride back to where they left the trail (a distance of over 50 trail miles, more miles than that by road).  Said no to that, too. 

L-Rod

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Eric Lee (GAMES)" <elee at microsoft.com>
>Sent: May 27, 2008 10:50 AM
>To: "Donna \"L-Rod\" Saufley" <dsaufley at sprynet.com>, Diane Soini <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>, "pct-l at backcountry.net" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
>Subject: RE: [pct-l] weather from the trail
>
>L-Rod wrote:
>>
>I've come to the conclusion that there are a number of Darwin Award candidate wannabes out on the trail this year.
>>
>
>Wow . . . when L-Rod gets POed at thrus, you *know* things are bad!  :-)
>
>I completely agree about the stupidity of hiking without appropriate cold/wet weather gear regardless of where you are.  It's each individual's responsibility to ensure his or her own safety in any reasonably foreseeable circumstance.
>
>Donna, if it were me who got that phone call, I may very well have just said, "Hmmm, well, good luck with that!"  Or maybe not - I'm pretty soft, actually.  But anyway, it seems to me that trail-angeling works well when the folks you're angeling for are self-sufficient and your help is unexpected, though appreciated.  The system kind of breaks down when those folks aren't self-sufficient and are *relying* on your help.  At some point you start having to draw lines and say, "Sorry, but that's not my problem, it's your problem," which sucks because it goes against the trail-angeling instinct, but that's the way it is, I guess.
>
>Anyway, I've already done enough ranting on that kind of subject this spring so I'll leave it there.  :-)
>
>Eric