[pct-l] Hike Naked

[Marion Davison]

Back in the days when I was a boy scout leader we did a backpack trip on 
the PCT from Splinters Bridge to 173, with a stop at Deep Creek hot 
springs.  I took tremendous flack from the troop committee afterwards 
(these are all parents who wouldn't be caught dead backpacking but were 
happy to have me take their kids away on a trip 18 times  a year.  BSA 
is also known as Babysitters of America).
I enlightened these folks that anytime you get near water anywhere in 
the wilderness, you might find naked people.  So if they didn't want 
their kids to see naked people, they better keep them out of the 
wilderness. I also told them that the scene at Deep Creek that day was 
all naked men.  Nothing different from what they would see in the 
average high school locker room.  Had there been naked people having 
sex, getting drunk or smoking dope, we would have hiked on.  But it 
wasn't like that.  Regardless of their vivid imaginations, it wasn't 
Woodstock in the woods.