[pct-l] Happy Trails

[Brandon McGinnity]

Brendan, I was thinking the same thing, sort of a Whiteblaze.net for the
PCT. I've always been amazed there was no forum, only the email list. If I
were a "computer guy" I'd do it myself, but really have no idea how.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Brendan Beltz <brendanbeltz at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
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