[pct-l] Snipes

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Diane,


A “snipe hunt” is a prototypical fool’s errand. Gullible people – usually
kids on camping trips or at summer camp – are influenced to engage in a
“hunt” with promises that if they do a certain list of semi-plausible
things, at night, alone, in the woods or the field, many snipe will come
flying into their sack.  The stories and rituals vary greatly, but the
typical result is the “hunter” sits in the cold and damp, being eaten by
mosquitoes sufficient time for them to ponder the improbability of their
silly position, at which time they return to camp having learned a valuable
lesson.  Participation is often a rite-of-passage.


Some participants who smell a rat, or have advance knowledge of the process,
have been known to use the resulting cover of darkness to covertly scare
dickens out of other participants and/or instigators in some devious way or
another, but I’ll deny having done so.



Enjoy your planning,



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Jim & Jane Moody <moodyjj at comcast.net>wrote:

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> wikipedia.org/wiki/ Snipe
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com" <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:47:58 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Snipes
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> Okay, I will admit my complete and total ignorance. It has been
> bugging me for about 30 years. What the heck is a snipe and where did
> all that snipe nonsense come from?
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