[pct-l] water cache sabotage?

[Tortoise]

Uncle Tom wrote in his journal:
> Getting water is difficult enough, but now the radical environmentalist
> hikers are making a point of taking an ice pick to the plastic jugs
> people put out here as water caches. They feel the water cache is an
> unnatural crutch, unsightly, and that the PCT needs to be returned to
> it's natural uncached state.

Unless he has seen the "radical environmentalist hikers" or has other good 
evidence, he is making wild unfounded name-calling and likewise imputing 
motives. Apparently he also was relying on the water caches rather than 
carrying enough to get to the next dependable source.  Hard to feel sorry 
for him.


Tortoise

<> Because truth matters! <>

On 04/17/10 04:43:07, Scott Thompson wrote:
> Thru-hiker Uncle Tom reports that one or more water caches have
> suffered damage and water loss:
>
> "Getting water is difficult enough, but now...(some) hikers are making
> a point of taking an ice pick to the plastic jugs people put out here
> as water caches."
>
> Journal entry here:
>
> http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=305320
>
>
> Any confirmation it's a current hiker doing this?
>
>
>
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