[pct-l] Happy Trails

[Brendan Beltz]

Well, then, I should ask the obvious question. Has anybody thought of making
an active-hiker only dedicated forum? I mean, these internet forums take
like ten minutes to set up right? :) Seems like enough people are making
regular internet access a large part of their hike to warrant such a thing.
Or even just a color coding system to make quick scanning easier? Blue for
on-trail hiker, yellow for active angel, green for bloviator, and white for
ninjas?

I guess I wish there was a place I could go to shout out to people up and
down the trail within a few sections about current issues and gossip. I was
thinking some sort of live google map tagging thingie would be great. Like
foursquare or something. One big map for everybody where we can leave sticky
notes and warnings attached to gps location. Oh well, if I wasn't just most
recently trained in Quick Basic for DOS....

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Eric Lee <saintgimp at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Brendan wrote:
> >
> In the past, have current thrus used this list much as a forum to
> communicate with other thrus while on trail? I've been wondering about that
> for a bit. Seems like it would be good to have a message board of sorts
> where all the hikers with iphones can leave each otehr notes about upcoming
> conditions. I was hoping this list would serve that function but it seems
> like everybody is signing off when they hit the trail.
> >
>
> No, this list is too noisy for that.  Thrus don't have time to wade through
> 500 messages in search of the information they need.
>
> And Tortoise, you know very well that the list won't go quiet.  All of us
> frustrated desk-jockeys are going to keep the traffic up by armchair
> quarterbacking everyone's hikes.  Well, ok, it'll get a little quieter, I
> guess.  :-)
>
> Eric
>
>