[pct-l] the whole truth

[Adam Bradley]

Also I am in a 3 wall land.  Just to be clear. 

listo del norte
--- Adam Bradley <tooloouk79852 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> dust, bring it!
> 
> listo del norte
> --- Dust <pcttdust at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like some former hiker has been spending
> too
> > much time in 4-wall land.
> > 
> > Really, Adam, quit harrassing my girlfriend or
> > you'll get a knuckle sandwich.
> > 
> > 
> > Adam Bradley <tooloouk79852 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  Hello Yogi,
> >   Listo del Norte (or Adam soon to be monster
> truck
> > in
> > spanish) here.  I don't really consider any of my
> > posts to be personal attacks on you.  This is a
> > great
> > response as I have saved all these as well. 
> However
> > you didn't speak to corrections like the "bermuda
> > triangle" or ramona falls to name just a few.  Are
> > these corrected in your current guidebook your
> > selling
> > now?  If not does the book come with the black
> > marker
> > you so highly recommend to ammend all of the
> > corrections one must make if they foolishly
> purchase
> > your book in advance hoping to prepare for a pct
> > thru
> > hike?  Also this was a reply to sly not you.  I
> will
> > tell you one thing you wouldn't last 10 seconds as
> a
> > rafting guide, need tough skin to handle all the
> > ribbing.  I felt as far as running into you at
> ALDHA
> > you where avoiding contact due to over reacting to
> a
> > customer of yours.  I will stand by my judgment
> that
> > you have poor customer service skills and I know
> > this
> > to be true as I am not the first to comment on
> them.
> > 
> > Just maybe the first to speak publicly about it. 
> > You
> > don't have much backbone yogi.  I can remember a
> > friend of mine who I don't think was the best
> guide
> > berating his guests saying " you people paddle
> like
> > slugs, what do you think you can just ooze down
> the
> > river?"  I find it interesting that in my version
> of
> > the book you recommend people sleep with food
> under
> > their feet or head.  Now to a person born and
> raised
> > in Alaska that is just a bunch of nonsense, but
> then
> > obviously you caved to peer pressure and took the
> > easy
> > route suggesting bear barrels.  To a thru hiker
> > (expert in route to jedi) like myself it seems
> like
> > you don't have it all figured out like you make
> out
> > you do.  I suggest to anyone thinking about
> wasting
> > money on this guide consider this.  Are you
> > completely
> > clueless?  if the answer is yes this might be the
> > route to go.  If you have any wilderness skills at
> > all
> > this is wasted money.  Hell, I bet you can find a
> > old
> > copy and just make photo copies.  Many folks ran
> out
> > of funding on trail this year.  Some folks had
> > trouble
> > paying their tabs at resturaunts or donating money
> > to
> > the trail angels whose homes we stayed in along
> the
> > way.  Which I found it extremely funny that you
> > where
> > so quick to pay for someones meal when so short
> with
> > someone who purchased your book.  The best
> planning
> > guide in my opinion is written by the Jardines. 
> > Minus
> > all the corn pasta stuff.  Also on another note, I
> > have heard from some of my trail compatriots that
> > you
> > think people who hike for causes are "whores"?  I
> > have
> > to contact them to find refrence to this post, but
> > that is deeply disturbing to someone who hikes for
> > causes.  Of course all of these above issues will
> be
> > written about in depth and posted on my website
> when
> > I
> > have the time.  I am crazy busy now paying bills
> and
> > preparing for another crossing from the cortez to
> > the
> > pacific through the sierra la laguna.  I am
> planning
> > another thru hike for 2007 and benefit for the
> trail
> > I
> > will be hiking.  I am making a presentation of my
> > 2006
> > thru hike.  Working 70hr weeks.  But I am not a
> > martyr.  This is what Listo does. A few things to
> > ponder.  First take a look at Trail Journals and
> > look
> > up yogi's AT journals.  One look at a photo of how
> > you
> > equipped yourself speaks a thousand words.  It all
> > clicks and makes sense now why your opinion
> doesn't
> > mean much to someone as myself.  In the copy of
> your
> > guidebook you say something about hiker behavior. 
> > Smile say please and thank you.  What happened? 
> > Myself, I have realized that the path I was
> walking
> > this summer I am actually on it all the time.  It
> is
> > the path of life.  I am trying to follow through,
> > stop
> > and think before I react.  My behavior on trail
> and
> > off are one.  My life on trail and off are one. 
> Now
> > I
> > have your book out and am perusing as I write this
> > and
> > a flood of memories are hitting me as to all the
> > things that are just flat out wrong in this book. 
> > Lastly, after the bermuda triangle I never again
> > once
> > looked at the guidebook.  How did I make It? 
> common
> > sense.  
> > 
> > listo del norte    
> > --- yogi  wrote:
> > 
> > > A warning to everyone:  This is a LONG post. 
> > After
> > > being slandered on PCT-L by Adam Bradley for the
> > > last
> > > two months, today I'll respond.
> > > 
> > > The short version is this:
> > > 
> > > In February 2005, the PCTA issued a new Data
> Book
> > > with
> > > new mileage.  This mileage did not match my
> book. 
> > > At
> > > that time, I personally emailed every person who
> > had
> > > purchased my book recently and offered them a
> > > revision
> > > package for the Part 2 pages.  Adam chose to not
> > > obtain the revision at that time, even though my
> > > email
> > > clearly stated that I was only printing enough
> > > revision packages for those who requested them.
> > > 
> > > ONE YEAR LATER, Adam requested the revision
> > package,
> > > which was no longer available.  Had he requested
> > the
> > > revision package at the time it was offered, he
> > > would
> > > have been able to get it.  This was a one-time
> > > offer,
> > > and Adam declined the offer when he got it.  
> > > 
> > > The email exchange between Adam and I follows
> this
> > > post.  I'm posting the emails here because Adam
> > > chose
> > > to post only a snip of one of my emails, which
> > does
> > > not tell the whole story.
> 
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