[pct-l] (no subject)

[Kent Spring]

I think there is a mix of apples and oranges going on here.  The ruckus was many sided, but was about Scott and Joe going into an ACTIVE fire area.  The Butler fire was last year, and this is a section where I walked the road and wished I hadn't.  All the people who walked through the closed area said the trail was in good shape.  A camp supervisor in the area told me that it was closed to keep out motor vehicles!  In the meantime I (and about half the thru hikers) followed directions and walked the road, which was being used as a motorcycle race course.  

I still question the wisdom of Scott and Joe walking through an active fire area.  

Andrea Dinsmore wrote:
> I'd love to hear the comments about "_most of the other_" hikers 
> taking the closed section on _this_ part of the trail. There was such 
> a ruckus over Scott and Joe going through the closed section up north. 
> Seems to me they were singled out for some reason.
>  
> PCT MOM
>
>  
> On 8/12/08, *Sly* <slyatpct at aol.com <mailto:slyatpct at aol.com>> wrote:
>
>     That's cool I think most of the hikers this year took the closed
>     section anyway.  Some of the reasons being, a part of it was open to >day
>     hikers,
>     the alternate had no posted water sources, no posted length and the
>     roads involved didn't connect on the guidebook maps.
>
>     To be honest, I followed the trail until I was out of the closed area
>     and thought it was one of the better sections of trail up to that
>     point.  Freshly groomed, no blow downs, plenty of water and despite
>     being burnt, really scenic.
>
>     Sly
>
>     Shutterbug steiner wrote:
>     > It seems like finally and officially the PCT is open around Big
>     Bear from the damaging fires (Butler I & 2 and Slide)  last fall.
>     >
>     > http://www.rimoftheworld.net/columns/neufeld/damaged
>     >
>     > http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sanbernardino/documents/nr_pct080708.pdf
>     >
>     > SB