[pct-l] Chaos On The PCT

[Kevin Cook]

If I choose NOT to sleep on the floor can I still be a thru hiker this year
(I'm a hammocker after all and we don't do "the ground" if at all possible)?
LOL

Loved this post too!

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Melanie Clarke <melaniekclarke at gmail.com>wrote:

> I enjoyed this as well!  I've enjoyed the comedy and amused by the
> personalities on the PCT-L.
>
> This is my first Kick Off.  How rowdy do these things get?  I mean, this
> will be a classier event than Burning Man right?  I've never been to
> Burning
> Man but my neighbor has and I hear the stories...
>
> Melanie
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Tow, Doug <DTow at americanriverbank.com
> >wrote:
>
> > PCT PARTICIPANT PANIC OFFICIALLY SETS IN
> >
> > Western United States - With the arrival of March, the low fever of a
> > few has developed into a full-blown panic of hundreds, as hikers
> > anticipate and prepare for their Pacific Crest Trail departure.  Rumors
> > abound of grown men and women sleeping on the floor, walking in the
> > freezing rain, and packing and repacking their gear.
> >
> > Homeland security has gone to alert Orange in response to email chatter
> > about "resupply buckets," "bounce boxes," and, most alarming of all, the
> > best way to "protect my pack" at airport check-in.  In an attempt not to
> > alert authorities, suspects are advising their adherents to avoid flying
> > with Bic lighters, hexamine tablets, and isobutane.  There appears to be
> > an indecipherable code in use nicknamed
> > ADZPCTKOMYGODMYPACKCANTWEIGHSEVENTEENFRIGGINPOUNDSOMGOMGOMG.
> >
> > Paranormal activity is on the rise as well.  Incredible stories of
> > "angels" and "beautiful oases in the desert" and feet spontaneously
> > growing as much as 2 1/2 sizes are rampant.
> >
> > "I don't know what's going on," commented San Diego grocery store owner
> > Sal Fishburn, "but I got these wild-eyed people asking how long my
> > tortillas stay fresh.  How should I know?  Don't folks just buy them and
> > eat them?  Then, those loonies see how many of them they can stuff in
> > this big blue plastic keg thingie.  Geez!"
> >
> > Shroomer, Steel-Eye, and Halfmile, whose real names are being withheld
> > pending notification of next of kin, have made valiant attempts to calm
> > raw nerves, to no avail.
> >
> > byline Doug Tow
> >
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