[pct-l] Hikers required to wear orange? (likely not ...)

[Brian Lewis]

Perhaps a way to divert attention from the perennial dog topic is to raise
something else that will create some passion  (that's a joke, folks ...).
to whit:
WA state house bill 1116 - 2009-10 "Requiring visible clothing while
recreating in a mixed-use area during hunting season."   (in the state of
Washington)
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/Summary.aspx?bill=1116&year=2009

This bill is one of the responses to the 14-year-old bear hunter who killed
a hiker last year (Aug 2nd).

I don't actually bring this up to "create some passion", and in fact I hope
that folks that are interested in the topic will read the long extant blogs
on this topic rather than opt to recreate the same discussions here.  For
existing discussion/opinions, I suggest one or more of:
http://tinyurl.com/c82z9r
http://uw.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25712
http://tinyurl.com/chgxvx   (comments follow the article)
http://www.theolympian.com/hunting/story/740933.html

More importantly, a couple of places I read suggest that there isn't much
support for the bill, and one or two places quote the bill's sponsor as just
having brought it up "for discussion" ... (?!?)
So I don't know that it's worth getting excited about, just an FYI.  (If
you're a WA state resident, consider writing one of your state house
representatives)

Perhaps one lesson from the incident is that hunting season can extend over
a longer time frame than one might expect --- it's not super intuitive that
any sort of hunters might be out there in early August.

There, now didn't that clear any thought of dogs on trail right out of your
head?  :-)


Brian Lewis / Gadget '08
http://postholer.com/brianle