[pct-l] Olallie Lake Resort & Western Snowpack map

[Trekker4 at aol.com]

Wildheart, 
    That discussion is off topic, and  would take the rest of my life. The 
shortest answer is that the average  person works into  April or May to pay for 
the cost of the Federal  Government in their lives, a cost going way beyond 
the Income Tax; that means  half a year to pay for the cost of Federal, State, 
and Local governments in  their lives. The lose all sense of personal 
responsibility for themselves, and  expect government to bail them out of their 
problems, partly because government  takes half their income.    
    Best near PCT example, to get this  25  miles from on topic, is S CA: 
people build hundreds of thousands of  homes in brush fire country, don't 
fireproof their property, and then  expect someone to pay to replace their house. 
That's not being responsible.  They'll also expect someone to relocate them when 
S CA is out of water options,  with no more to be stolen from other states and 
none in the ground. Or when gas  is $10 per gallon and their 30-mile commute, 
suburban house is worthless,  they'll expect someone to bail them out because 
they can't afford that commute.  Or, when the big quake comes, they'll expect 
someone to rebuild their house  built in an earthquake zone.  
    As to roads, trails, etc: they'd exist  without government, and be called 
toll whatever. In Nevada Co  CA, a PCT county, my gg grandfather and his only 
son built a 3.7  mile, privately owned toll road, before CA even existed. 
Before the  road, it was a trail, with a spring. We're stuck with government, but 
 the world does and would exist without it. We're both  oversimplifying a 
bit, so ... end of discussion on this  list.
        
 
Bob  "Trekker"
Big Bend Desert Denizen
Naturalized Citizen - Republic of  Texas

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if  it 
wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' 
-- Harry Browne

"If you think  health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs 
when its free."  
-- P. J. ORourke



In a message dated 1/10/2009 4:23:36 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
Jblees at energy.state.ca.us writes:

>>>
Dear Trekker,

I think you are being hypocritical  -- even for a "Naturalized Citizen" of 
the "Republic of Texas" -- by trashing  "government" while 
at the same time relying on government ranger stations,  government roads, 
government snow reports, government fire crews, and on and  on and on.  If there 
were no government there would be no trail (whew!  finally steered this sort 
of on topic).   

But what do you  think?  

Wildheart
(A California bureaucrat and proud of  it)
**********
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:35:58 EST Trekker4 at aol.com  wrote:

Subject: [pct-l] Olallie Lake Resort & Western Snowpack  map
<Snip>
I called the nearby Ranger Station three days  ago;  he said they were out of 
business. <Snip>  Since I  have 
to drive thousands of miles to get to the PCT, my  planning page  includes 
all driving miles also, and all days of time also. I'm also having to  pick up 
two 
unfinished CA fire closure pieces, so  the summer will be  complicated.
The 1 Jan 09 Western Mountain Snowpack map  showed  up today:  
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/westsnow.pl    <snip>

Bob  "Trekker"
Big Bend Desert  Denizen
Naturalized Citizen - Republic of  Texas

Government  cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if  it 
wasn't for  us, you couldn't walk.' 
-- Harry Browne

"If you think  health  care is expensive now, wait until you see what it 
costs 
when its  free."  
-- P. J.  ORourke
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