[pct-l] Risk of becoming a trail fatality

[Melanie Clarke]

I don't have a trail name yet but I think it would be cool to have a "Pirate
Name".  If I take up this *raiding and plundering innocent hikers* can I get
a pirate name?  Give me some advice here.

Melanie

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Reinhold Metzger
<reinholdmetzger at cox.net>wrote:

> Say Switchback,
> I'm so glad you are changing your ways and are giving up raiding and
> plundering innocent hikers which has been the greatest threat to hikers.
> Now hikers will only need to worry about the dangers they will face from
> bears, mountain lions, snakes, scorpions, tics, lime disease, giardia,
> heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, snow covered mountain passes,
> raging river crossings, lightning and getting lost in the wilderness.
> However, as the experts on this list point out, those dangers are
> nothing compared to the dangers we face in our own homes.
>
> This is good news and will surely encourage those with little or no
> hiking experience to venture into the wilderness to thru-hike the
> PCT....after all, they will be  safer in the wilderness than staying at
> home and the more people on the trail the better, for sleeping in the
> dark with glowing eyes all around them makes them nervous.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Your nervous trail companion
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