[pct-l] Popcorn on the PCT

[hiker97 at aol.com]

I am not getting any email from the PCT-L either.? I think the last one I got was the August 1 digest.



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-----Original Message-----
From: Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net>
To: Hiker97 at aol.com
Cc: reinholdmetzger at cox.net; pct-l at backcountry.net; carolwbruno at yahoo.com; john.hannah at shawgrp.com
Sent: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 10:36 am
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Popcorn on the PCT



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 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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