[pct-l] MUIR HUT INCIDENT

[Eckert]

It sounds like a case of Prior Run-in with Switchback.  A group of 
hikers that had previously been plundered, ransacked and ravished would 
react to a stranger in just this way.

Eckert

Reinhold Metzger wrote:

>In response to some recent chatter about the Muir hut:
>
>I have been at the Muir hut at least a dozen times and always admired it's
>beauty and architecture and told myself I have to sleep in it someday, but
>never did.
>Three or four years ago I arrived at the Muir pass shortly before nightfall,
>it was raining and cold, and decided that would be night for me to sleep in
>the Muir hut.
>There were a dozen or so hikers, about equally divided among the sexes,
>inside fully intending  to weather-out a rainy crowded night in the Muir
>hut.
>After a few minutes of chatting, being the comedian that I am, I
>said.......''THE  WAY  I  SEE  IT  THERE  IS  ROOM  FOR  ME  AND  THE  WOMEN
>IN  THE  HUT.........THE  REST  OF  YOU  GUYS  HAVE  TO  SLEEP
>OUTSIDE''.........The girls giggled, the guys just stared at me in a hostile
>way so I decided it might be best if I just went on my way.
>So, I never got to sleep in the Muir hut and never quite understood why the
>guys were so hostile and unfriendly.
>It seems to me that I read some where hikers fiercely protect and resist
>sharing, with other hikers, their food an their women, which could explain
>the men's hostility towards me.
>In retrospect my decision not to sleep in the hut that night probably spared
>me severe bodily harm.
>
>JMT Reinhold
>
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