[pct-l] Risk of becoming a trail fatality

[Melanie Clarke]

Thank you, I'm taking notes.

Switchback, I noticed that your campsite for the 2010 Kick Off had the Jolly
Roger on it.  How cool is that?  I am so jealous.  How many hikers do I have
to terrorize or how obnoxious do I have to be to get a Jolly Roger on my
campsite for 2011?  Maybe Viking horns, they were the original Pirates of
the sea, looted Monasteries and terrorized the European coast line.  Yoshi
is a Japanese Pirate.  Together we can be the hiker's triumvirate of terror!

Melanie

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:04 PM, <hiker97 at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Snow Bunny Reinhold writes: 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, Guardia, 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.
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Switchback replies: This is a dirty rumor started by Female Terminator
> (T-1000 liquid metal models) Leadership Types.  My ambush routine will now
> be at road crossings.  This is when hikers are at their most venerable.
>  They think they have reached civilization and a bath and food.  Their guard
> is down.  Their attention is focused on other things, besides their safety.
>  This is when I strike.  All the carefully hidden folding money for hot
> pizzas, cold beers, comfy motel rooms will be mine.  Simple.  No problem.
>  Should be a piece of cake to lighten their loads in ways they never thought
> of.
>
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