[pct-l] Help with trekking poles

[montypct]

Last year I had a request from Bob Riess to pick up loaner gear from a hiker 
hiking into Warner Springs and return it to Bob.  A hiker lost his luggage.
Check the new PCTA Communicator (Comes with membership at reduced price to 
thru-hikers, I think, hint)
for the story written by Scout, class of 2007, about Bob Riess.  There's a 
story inside that story about a thru-hiker loosing his gear on the airlines 
and Bob helping set him up to hike anyway.
"Out of Order" (fitting at this moment) was the name given to that hiker. 
He wore a button saying Out of Order when I met him up north.

In 2005 I ran back out to a small commuter flight and asked them to find a 
missing trekking pole.
"It wasn't there."  But two minutes later they brought it to me.  Only one 
tarp pole would have been alkward.


Warner Springs Monty
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Geisreiter" <dusterbuddy at comcast.net>
To: "PCT" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Help with trekking poles


> Amanda
>
> I decided not to check any luggage because i didnt want to risk anything 
> getting lost in the black hole of missplaced luggage or broken. Also there 
> is so many things that cant be checked now days that i would have to mail 
> myself stuff anyways. I just am playing it safe, or some may say paranoid 
> :).
> I now plan on getting cardboard shipping tubes, like many have suggested, 
> and mailing them out on monday. Luckily i left myself some wiggle room for 
> shipping out my gear, so shipping on monday should be fine. (again that 
> paranoid thing)
> Thanks again for everyones input and see ya on the trail!
>
> Kim-----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Lee (GAMES) <elee at microsoft.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:40 PM
> To: Amanda L Silvestri <aslive at sbcglobal.net>; pct-l at backcountry.net 
> <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Help with trekking poles
>
> Amanda wrote:
>>
>  Why are you not checking any baggage on the plane?  In the past I have 
> put my trekking poles in a triangular shipping tube, very strong and 
> light.  You can get them at any UPS store.
>>
>
> Actually, it was Kim who asked the original question.  And a cardboard 
> shipping tube would be great, too, especially if it's a one-way trip 
> because you can recycle it.  Someone else mentioned just wrapping them in 
> a couple of towels and checking them that way - I certainly wouldn't 
> recommend that, knowing how things get abused by baggage handlers.  Odds 
> are good they'd come out bent.
>
> Eric
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