[pct-l] Water caches

[Will Hiltz]

The thing I want to take issue with in this debate is the way in which
less-experienced hikers are somehow looked upon as less deserving to be on
the trail.  If water caches "enable" (in the words of Donna) more hikers- is
this a good thing or a bad thing?  Isn't it better for there to be more
hikers on the PCT, so as to have more passionate advocates for the trail
that we love?  We need the long distance hiking community to expand, not
become more exclusive.  The trend in wilderness management these days is
towards so called "front-of-the-mountain" activities-- day hikes, ATVing,
fishing, etc. (i.e. things that can be easily done in a day and doesn't
require huge planning like a backcountry trip.)  Wouldn't it be better to
have more, properly educated in LNT principals hikers so as to be passionate
users of and advocates for wilderness areas/experiences?  Why make the PCT
more exclusive?  Don't we want more people "on our side"?  More donations to
the PCTA?  Grumpy comments about hikers being "enabled" is not the way to
welcome and expand the LDH community, right?

YITOOD,

Easy

PCT 2007

On Dec 31, 2007 10:01 PM, Len Glassner <len5742 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/31/07, robo hiker <robohiker at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > is it
> > considered poor form to let my dog to run around off it's leash while
> > talking on my cell phone? ;-D
> >
>
> Now there's something I'd really like to see - a dog running around
> off it's leash, talking on your cell phone.  Photos?
>
> I thought Ken and Marcia Powers' walk along the ADT was a wonderful
> accomplishment.  But I now wonder...did they have permission to place
> all those caches along the trail in the southwest?
>
> I sure hope the traffic on this topic dies down.   The roar of DELETE
> keys being pressed all over the world is beginning to have an
> environmental impact.
>
> And now back to our regularly scheduled alcoholic binge.
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