[pct-l] OC Weekly Columnist calls us dirty hippies!

[Steve Courtway]

It seems she aptly named herself......someone should let her know the name 
is to be given to you by others though...........

I have met quite a few total hippies ontrail.........thoroughly enjoyed 
spending the 4th of july with skypilot at iva bell hot springs one year - 
and if you've met that guy, you know there is no other description for him 
then hippie.

haha


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenny Holliday" <jenny at seawaterfoundation.org>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:23 PM
Subject: [pct-l] OC Weekly Columnist calls us dirty hippies!


> I'm still shaking my head over this one...
>
> Commie Girl, a columnist for OC Weekly who usually covers nightlife,
> politics and drinking went on vacation last week and met some thru-hikers.
> Here's her take on us:
>
> ”We also met hippies, as Edison Lake is an outpost on the Pacific Crest
> Trail, so they were hippies hiking from Mexico to Canada, and if you 
> called
> them “dirty,” you would be utterly justified. I didn’t mind the dirt (or 
> the
> smell), but the fact that they had “trail names” just killed me. “I’m
> Solar,” they would say, because when you’re building your own society at 
> the
> top of a mountain, you’re not bound by the strictures of the society in 
> the
> outside world! Nice to meet you. I’m Pretentious Twit."
>
> Read the full column at:
> http://www.ocweekly.com/columns/commie-girl/commie-girl/25537/
>
> Jenny
>
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