[pct-l] Scott Williamson's Worksops

[Jon Danniken]

Well, Carl, your straw-men pretty much miss the entire point I was trying to 
make with my post, but then again based on past experience I kind of figured 
that would be the case with a number of people here on the list.  I have 
received a few private emails from those who did "get it", though, and 
that's all I really care about.

Jon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Siechert" <carlito at gmail.com>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Scott Williamson's Worksops


> Jon:
>
> You're on pretty shaky ground impugning Scott's love of the trail. But
> suppose he *is* a trail whore who's hiked the PCT 6 or 8 times (?) just so
> he'd have this moment to cash in. And that Ned, Yogi, Postholer, Brick, 
> and
> the Kickoff are enabling, nay, *encouraging*, dozens of people to go out 
> on
> a trail that they have no business being on, and who are not going to
> properly enjoy it as a real backpacker would.
>
> None of that "deprives" you and other true backpackers of anything. As for
> depriving the aforementioned whores' customers/victims of certain
> experiences, it should be pointed out that they avail themselves of
> the services voluntarily. Let those poseurs think they're having a good
> time, deprived as it is. *You* can still enjoy the learning experience, 
> the
> sense of accomplishment, your own backpacking experience off in the woods
> with other backpackers, etc.
>
> And if encountering dozens of people over the course of dozens of trail
> miles offends you, you're really in the wrong place by going on a 
> designated
> National Scenic Trail. If you don't want to see that many people -- or 
> none
> at all -- there are thousands of miles of seldom-used trail traversing 
> some
> of the most beautiful places in the world. Many of those lonely trails are
> very near the PCT, but get a tiny fraction of the attention. Still
> too crowded? Go cross country. Because of its topography, geology, plant
> cover, and weather, the Sierra Nevada offers lots of superb routes, which
> you're likely to have all to yourself.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
> ADZPCTKO unindicted co-conspirator
>
> P.S. I put my affiliation here in the interests of full disclosure, not so 
> I
> can enjoy the notoriety, fame, and profit. But come to think of it, the
> adulation that comes with it is really cool.
>
>
>
> Depriving people of the learning experience itself, the sense of
>> accomplishment gained only through years of devotion to backpacking and
>> outdoor pursuits, is a very selfish thing, and furthermore to fill the
>> trail
>> with such people is disengenuous to those of us who have devoted 
>> ourselves
>> to the experiences of backpacking far off in the woods away from the
>> crowded
>> masses that inhabit our currently overcrowded world.
>>
>> As I have suggested before, perhaps those people who seek the notoriety,
>> fame, and profit of building up social structures should form a softball
>> league or something similar, and leave the experience of hiking the PCT 
>> to
>> those of us who seek our own backpacking experience, off in the woods,
>> with
>> other backpackers.
>>
>>
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