[pct-l] Do you really not want to hear?

[Mike Saenz]

I carry an MP3/FM player! I love it! Especially when I can get a good
news/talk program while I'm knocking out 20 mile days.
It was cool to get great reception along The Desert Divide. The day I
did Fobes to Saddle J, a really good program was on about illegal
immigrants and the Minutemen movement along the border in East San
Diego! They even included a few conversations with people at the PCT
Southern Terminus! It was cool listening to this while I was hiking the
PCT.

I LOVE the sounds of nature! I also LOVE old bootleg unreleased Led
Zeppelin tunes! I can listen to news/talk radio for hours on end (I do
each day while driving back and forth to work).
So why deprive myself form the things I love while hiking?

I've listened to baseball games while snug in my bag at night. I
listened to music while doing that descent from Fuller Ridge and blew
right by that spot everyone was reporting rattlesnakes last May (I
must've thought that sound was Robert Plant shaking his tambourine on
some really good drugs).

Yeah, I listen to music while hiking! Do I care what others opinions are
on this? Heck no. I'm hiking my OWN hike!


Michael Saenz ,  Associate Partner
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-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Point North
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:26 PM
To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Do you really not want to hear?

I agree totally that wearing headphones or noise blocking devices on the
trail seems ridiculous.  You go into nature to block out nature's
sounds?  

But ............ do these noise canceling ear buds block out the
retarded booming C-RAP from punks' car speakers in town?  

> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Hiker97 at aol.com
> >Sent: Aug 23, 2006 5:15 AM
> >To: pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net
> >Cc: laura629 at hotmail.com, carolbruno at cox.net
> >Subject: [pct-l] SuperSecrets of Backpacking
> >
> >My latest entertainment scheme is to use Sony noise canceling ear  
> >bud headphones with my small FM/AM radio on the trail and in camp.  I

> >bought mine at BestBuy.  These are expensive ($100) and cost a lot 
> >more  than my radio, but they actually work.
> >
> >If it is windy or noisy these headphones cut down on the  background 
> >noise on the trail or in camp.  I also use them in my local  
> >restaurant when I want to eat and listen to a radio program.  You can

> >still  hear talking, etc., but it is reduced.


 		
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