[pct-l] Boy Scouts and trail etiquette

[Bob Sartini]

I think we've all seen thruhiker behavior at least as bad and likely worse 
than any scout behavior. The scouts are usually young kids at least . The 
thruhikers are not THAT young.

Twice I've come a cross evidence of human defecation smack on the trail w/tp
as a "joke". It was in a remote place so I doubt it was cubscouts.

How about town behavior? I stick by my statistic. 6% of any group are  badly 
behaved. From Marines to legislators, nothing unique to scouts.


"EVERYTHING is in walking distance,"
    ......Bamboo Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ed faubert" <edfaubert at yahoo.com>
To: <aslive at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Boy Scouts and trail etiquette



Well it may be true about the leadership of these troops needed some lessons 
on true wilderness expertise it may be a small percentage of the overall 
scout troops.
That said it brings back to mind some PCT hikers back in 2001 who were Eagle 
Scouts who wrote graffeti on the pct as well as the CDT when they did that a 
few years later........... and these guys were college students to 
boot...........

Meadow Ed
--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Amanda L Silvestri <aslive at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Amanda L Silvestri <aslive at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] Boy Scouts and trail etiquette
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 6:02 PM
> My first reaction was to be shocked, after all scouting, I
> thought, should be teaching young boys how to be one with
> nature. Then I thought, "How much training do their
> leaders get? How many potential leaders would put up with
> a lot of training?" Are my standards too high?
> Perhaps, but if you are going to introduce young boys to
> nature, I would think that teaching respect for nature
> should be a big part of that introduction. I guess I am
> too much of a cynic to really be shocked, just
> disappointed... again. Thank God for the trail community
> and a few nature-reverent souls, and thank you Patti for
> putting out that fire.
>
> Amanda (Shepherd)
> _______________________________________________
> Pct-l mailing list
> Pct-l at backcountry.net
> http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l



_______________________________________________
Pct-l mailing list
Pct-l at backcountry.net
http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l