[pct-l] PCT Ghost

[dsaufley at sprynet.com]

There are people, who I refer to as fringe dwellers, who live out in the desert areas in a fashion that is reminiscent of "Mad Max" movies. I spoke with a member of this type of community many years ago ('75 or '76) near Deep Creek, and it certainly was an eye-opener.  I plied him with questions like people do with long-distance hikers.  Apparently they survived by scrounging discards from more populated areas.  The young man I spoke with said that his little group had recently staged a retaliatory raid against another similar group.  He gave me directions I needed in exchange for a bottle of wine he spied in my car.  I've never forgotten the encounter or what it opened my eyes to.

L-Rod

-----Original Message-----
>From: Geolync <Geolync at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Dec 24, 2006 8:01 AM
>To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>Subject: [pct-l] PCT Ghost
>
>I and a friend had an experience just past hwy 8 a few years back.  At a confusing trial intersection we stopped to look at the map when a fellow in his 50s wearing nothing but tight spandex shorts with a comouflage print appeared from the brush.  We asked which was the PCT.  He pointed then walked shoeless off ahead carrying a stick over his shoulder with a bag tied on the end like a hobo.  Later we asked hikers ahead and behind if they had seen him.  They thought we were making it up.  So we named him the "Spandex Spirit".
>
>geolyn
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