[pct-l] Popcorn on the PCT

[Tortoise]

Hi All,

I'm still not getting any email from PCT-L.  However mail sent directly 
to me (TO: or cc:) reaches me. My guess is somehow the pct-l got added 
to a spam blacklist(s) and Charter (my ISP) is now blocking it.

I've gotten little email from others recently, so the problem may be 
something else. :-(

So I ask all of you, until I say otherwise, to send you email direct to 
me also. I'll let you know when I start getting my email from PCT-L.

Tortoise

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Hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
> Unsupported reinholdmetzger at cox.net <mailto:reinholdmetzger at cox.net> 
> writes: Bears are plentiful on the JMT and they love buttered pop 
> corn.  Say, I was wondering how are you going to cram all that 
> buttered pop corn in your bear canister?
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> Switchback the Can replies: Ha, ha, ha.  I have my own technique of 
> using bear canisters.  I use the light weight BearVault Solo canister 
> when required.  It easily fits into my 18 ounce Breeze pack.  No problem.
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> I pack it with most of my foods.  There is enough food in it, so if I 
> get wiped out by a bear I can easily make it out of the Sierras or to 
> the next resupply point.  The other food I just hang from a tree and 
> tie the cord off on another tree.  I keep a clean campsite and have 
> never had a bear get my food in 40 years of hard core hiker trash 
> backpacking. 
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> I also urinate around the two trees to let them know it is Switchback 
> the Trail Pirate they are dealing with and to beware.  This is 
> probably what really does the trick in keeping bears away.  I have not 
> only a reputation in the hiking community, but in the wilds too.  For 
> different reasons hikers usually try to avoid me and the same is true 
> for bears.  My legend is the result of decades of bear encounters.  
> This knowledge has been passed down through countless bear generations 
> from the older bears to the younger bucks just starting their 
> pillaging life style. 
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> For the bags of popcorn on the Mt. Whitney Expedition, I will just put 
> them in my large pack netting pocket.  I thank you.
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