[pct-l] PCT purity, sarcasm intended

[gary_schenk at verizon.net]

 Cheers, amigo!
 

On 01/27/15, Douglas Tow wrote:

Dear all y'all curmudgeons,

Here is what qualifies a hiker as one eschewing all trail magic:

1. Never drink from a man-made lake, canal, container, water fountain, or
cache - these things just enable hikers who couldn't otherwise make it.
2. Harvest all of your own food - can't have help if you need to stay pure.
3. Never go into a town - these are just dens of people providing things
you can buy that help you get down the trail.
4. Never stay in a motel or campground - these are just wimp magnets.
5. Never use a laundry - or are you saying that one that you pay for in
town is more pure than one offered by someone along the trail?
6. Never accept kindness, and certainly don't offer it, for that would
just make someone happy (or worse, grateful), and increase the likelihood
that you or someone else would succeed.
7. Who gets you from the trail into town? - oh, that's right, you always
walk into Tahoe, or Ashland, or Bridgeport.
8. Don't send yourself resupply boxes - those rascals who hold boxes for
you really ought to be ashamed of themselves.

I feed hikers at Ebbetts Pass for several days each hiking season, and out
of hundreds of thru-hikers passing by, no one, not even one, has failed to
stop, sit, eat, drop their trash, and enjoy any company there.

Or will you, dear curmudgeon, claim that all of these people should have
chosen to walk on by? Or will you merely continue to claim your legend of
being the purest and best, and as such, claim the high ground over the rest
of us poor codependent saps?

Chipmunk
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