[pct-l] for hikers with extensive backpacking experience

[Jon Smith]

Had to take a brief intermission from my lurker status when I read this:

>Stephen Adams reddirt2 at earthlink.net
>Tue Nov 10 00:36:59 CST 2009
>[pct-l] for hikers with extensive backpacking experience
>
>I hope I run into those folks.  When is this trip, I'd like to cross
>their path and send them out of the Sierra with don't come back
>ringing in their ears...

Sounded rather familiar.... from the same contributor who wrote the following
diatribe in May:

>[pct-l] Just going to put this out there for Metzger to consider
>Stephen reddirt2 at earthlink.net
>Sun May 3 19:23:07 CDT 2009
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>Learn what?  I figured one thing out that I learned reading most of the
>posts here, that hiking the PCT has become somewhat of a joke.  Is this list
>here to baby folks along who probably shouldn't be out there to begin with?
>If you can't let a little verbal comment slide off because you disagree with
>someone else's sense of humor I feel sorry for you.  I'd rather buy Reinhold
>a beer near some Sierra trailhead this summer than try and get along with a
>bunch of sissies that can not leave home without an electronic umbilical
>coil, like GPS, sat phones, email etc, etc...  Makes me kinda wonder about
>some of you all.  Just because the trail is there does not necessarily mean
>everyone should be out there.  Next time a thru-hiker hits me up for a ride
>to town I'm gonna inquire if they have a phone and if so then suggest they
>call a cab.
>I've read some good stuff here, most of it humor actually, but as far as
>actually helpful information regarding the PCT it's pretty thin with an
>awful amount of needles and repetitive information that is starting to
>irritate me to the point I figure to just turn it off any day now.  I think
>there are two people hiking currently I hope to meet, and that's about it.
>Not a very good percentage in my book, not enough to intice me to want to
>hike along the trail and be a part of the flow and what's going on.  Nope,
>this list caused me to change my mind about the PCT, and the way people are
>approaching it.  Hike your own hike for sure, but please do it somewhere I
>don't have to associate with you all.

Mr. Adams appears to have had a change of heart regarding his decision to
social associations.  Welcome back, Mr. Adams.