[pct-l] a few questions

[Bob Bankhead]

The chipmunks and squirrels can be fierce in some spots, pouncing from ambush when least expected. They are even known to steal food from your plate as you are eating. (Brazen hussies!)

Camp-robbing Sellars Jays will swoop in and grab whatever food you foolishly leave lying on the ground - or on your head, shoulder, or hand.

Those sneaky Marmots will pose for pictures while behind you, their accomplices raid your pack. 

Kamakazi skeeters will assault you from the skies. And why not? You're a walking buffet.

Yogi and BooBoo will play night games with you in Yosemite.


For all practical purposes, your friend's pistol will be ineffective against them all. It will however, get the immediate attention of other hikers and especially the rangers he meets or to whom someone reports his carrying. They take such things very seriously in Yosemite, and many of their rangers are law enforcement types with their own guns and arrest powers.




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrea Dinsmore 
  To: jomike at cot.net 
  Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net ; liberivivas at live.com 
  Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] a few questions


  Who's he planning on shooting ??

  PCT MOM

  On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:09 AM, <jomike at cot.net> wrote:

  One of my friends is planning on taking a pistol on the thru hike,
  thoughts?