[pct-l] illegal copies of ANYthing, oh, and YOGI

[Jason M.]

I for one would love to hear your tale.

Jackass



On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Bob Bankhead <wandering_bob at comcast.net>wrote:

> Yogi is a dedicated collector of trail information; one of several. She
> sifts what she gets, adds her own experiences, puts it in a logical order
> in
> one place and produces a product that gathers the best of what a through
> hiker would want to know. Basically, she does the vast bulk of trail and
> town research for you. Yes, you still have to dot the i's and cross the t's
> for your particular hike. She even provides free annual updates to keep it
> as close to current as possible without doing a ground survey each year.
> These updates are available to everyone, regardless of whether they
> purchased her book or not.
>
> And her opinions count - she's a Triple Crowner with several thousand trail
> miles under her boots (usually solo) and has done the PCT more than once.
> She has a love affair with it or else she just needs to get out of Kansas
> City periodically to stay sane. Her contributors are also very experienced
> hikers; many are also Triple Crowners; all are RECENT hikers of the trail
> upon which they comment, so they are speaking of many of the same things
> you
> will encounter.
>
> I still have a copy of her early PCT Handbook in the original 3 ring binder
> format. I got her CDT Handbooks last year.
>
> Bottom line - you can spend months or years doing your own research on the
> PCT, the CDT, or the CT and likely not equal what Yogi has
> collected........or you can spend $40 and get it all at once. Spend your
> time collecting and studying maps (which are absent from Yogi's books),
> route-planning, and building your gear list and food plans.
>
> A trail name (and its source) is meaningful only to the hiker to whom it
> applies. They run the gamut from the ridiculous to the sublime. For
> example,
> I'm Wandering Bob, but I'm not necessarily lost all the time (I just
> misplace the trail occasionally....but that's another story).
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of Andrea Dinsmore
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:24 PM
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] illegal copies of ANYthing, oh, and YOGI
>
> You really ought to wait until you have met and chewed the fat with Yogi
> before you trash talk her. But like Georgi stated so well.........you
> probably won't get many takers with your opinion. And by the
> way...........Yogi's got thousands of miles in those stinky old socks and
> takes the time to interview other hikers on updates each year. She does all
> the leg and phone work so each years new hikers don't have to spend months
> hoping their cover all their bases. Along with the majority of the PCT
> hikers, I value and appreciate all her hard work year after year.
>
> If you don't like the lady...........don't buy her stuff.
>
> PCT MOM
>
>
>
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