[pct-l] Water Caches

[stillroaming]

Look, it's not about some 'rite-of-passage' chest beating.

It's the same old story, a few imposing their will on the many. Whether it's 
the few forcing everyone to deal with the aftermath of the ADZ or some 
'elitist' tattle tale who knows what bear protection strategy fits us all or 
the few who decide the trail needs a water cache at spot X. Thanks for 
deciding for us all.

My will ends where yours begins.

And oh, if you don't like the power lines running through the San Felipe 
Hills, just walk on by.

Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pea Hicks" <phix at optigan.com>
To: "Tom Reynolds" <tomreynolds_ilan at yahoo.com>
Cc: "stillroaming" <pct at delnorteresort.com>; <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Water Caches


>
>
> Tom Reynolds wrote:
>>  There were some objections to this because the San Felipe
>> Hills was seen as a "rite-of-passage" and the water cache made it
>> less so.
>
> to my mind, any sort of sentiment to this effect is entirely arbitrary. 
> ie, it's not as if the pct designers had a meeting and said "ok, let's 
> route the trail through here so as to create a nice waterless 
> rite-of-passage to sort out the men/women from the boys/girls, because we 
> definitely want to make this trail interesting!" as if they were designing 
> the trail as some sort of racetrack or obstacle course, intended to test 
> the physical/mental abilities of those willing to take on the challenge, 
> only to be thwarted by crafty conniving trail angels dead set on ruining 
> the course with a well-placed water cache.
>
> if the trail had been forced for legal (or other) reasons through, say, a 
> 100 mile waterless stretch, would this also be seen as some sort of "rite 
> of passage?" maybe for a small percentage of extreme sports enthusiasts 
> (who could just as easily design their own course anywhere they want), but 
> not for most folks who just want to go out and enjoy themselves outdoors 
> and be as minimally encumbered by life-support equipment/supplies as they 
> can safely and legally get away with.
>
>
> gs