[pct-l] for hikers with extensive backpacking experience

[Stephen Adams]

Thanks, and my foot didn't taste all that good...
On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Jon Smith wrote:

> Had to take a brief intermission from my lurker status when I read  
> this:
>
>> Stephen Adams reddirt2 at earthlink.net
>> Tue Nov 10 00:36:59 CST 2009
>> [pct-l] for hikers with extensive backpacking experience
>>
>> I hope I run into those folks.  When is this trip, I'd like to cross
>> their path and send them out of the Sierra with don't come back
>> ringing in their ears...
>
> Sounded rather familiar.... from the same contributor who wrote the  
> following
> diatribe in May:
>
>> [pct-l] Just going to put this out there for Metzger to consider
>> Stephen reddirt2 at earthlink.net
>> Sun May 3 19:23:07 CDT 2009
>>
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>> Learn what?  I figured one thing out that I learned reading most of  
>> the
>> posts here, that hiking the PCT has become somewhat of a joke.  Is  
>> this list
>> here to baby folks along who probably shouldn't be out there to  
>> begin with?
>> If you can't let a little verbal comment slide off because you  
>> disagree with
>> someone else's sense of humor I feel sorry for you.  I'd rather buy  
>> Reinhold
>> a beer near some Sierra trailhead this summer than try and get  
>> along with a
>> bunch of sissies that can not leave home without an electronic  
>> umbilical
>> coil, like GPS, sat phones, email etc, etc...  Makes me kinda  
>> wonder about
>> some of you all.  Just because the trail is there does not  
>> necessarily mean
>> everyone should be out there.  Next time a thru-hiker hits me up  
>> for a ride
>> to town I'm gonna inquire if they have a phone and if so then  
>> suggest they
>> call a cab.
>> I've read some good stuff here, most of it humor actually, but as  
>> far as
>> actually helpful information regarding the PCT it's pretty thin  
>> with an
>> awful amount of needles and repetitive information that is starting  
>> to
>> irritate me to the point I figure to just turn it off any day now.   
>> I think
>> there are two people hiking currently I hope to meet, and that's  
>> about it.
>> Not a very good percentage in my book, not enough to intice me to  
>> want to
>> hike along the trail and be a part of the flow and what's going  
>> on.  Nope,
>> this list caused me to change my mind about the PCT, and the way  
>> people are
>> approaching it.  Hike your own hike for sure, but please do it  
>> somewhere I
>> don't have to associate with you all.
>
> Mr. Adams appears to have had a change of heart regarding his  
> decision to
> social associations.  Welcome back, Mr. Adams.
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