[pct-l] Trail workers/thru-hikers

[Hillary Schwirtlich]

I'm sure that she could have been mistaken on a few of them. But when I
asked her the same question, she said she could generally pick out a
thru-hiker after a while by the gear that they used and the way that they
looked and acted. Talking to them would prove her right or wrong, and after
a while she was usually right, especially since she recognized their gear
because she was researching for the PCT herself.

She also said the ones in front of the pack had the worst attitudes (and by
that I'm sure she meant the attitude that least matched her own towards the
trail), and that the team got the least complaints and the most gratitude
from the thru-hikers that came through in the second half of the wave.

I'm glad that you've mostly experienced grateful thru-hikers. Maybe she had
bad luck or exaggerated. I'm just sad I lost a companion for the trail.

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Sean 'Miner' Nordeen <
sean at lifesadventures.net> wrote:

> Hillary,
>
> Is your friend sure that she was talking to thru-hikers and not just
> hikers?  Since you mention being near Lake Tahoe, you are going to get a
> large number of tourist outnumbering any thru-hikers on the PCT there.
> Thru-hikers typically go through an area over a few short weeks and the rest
> of the summer is just everyone else.  The whole thing about having to step
> over giant rocks isn't going to phase a thru-hiker who just came through the
> High Sierra were you have some real big rocks to step up on and who are in
> the best shape of their lives.   Most thru-hikers I've met have been
> grateful for the trail crews that make the trail possible.  I know I was.
>  That isn't to say that there aren't some bad apples or jerks as there is
> always a few in every group of people.  But they are far and few inbetween
> in the PCT community.
>
> -Miner
>
>
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