[pct-l] Gear/Weight/Risk

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Iceaxe,

Thank you for the kind words, however if you had talked one of my
subordinate managers trying to get a document past me before I retired you
might have gotten an entirely different view of my wretched red pen.  In a
relentlessly macho business I often felt like some fussy old schoolmaster.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Matthew Edwards <Hetchhetchyman at aol.com>wrote:

> Perception of safety is mostly dependent upon one's skill, experience, and
> an understanding that there are really very few unforeseeable/unavoidable
> disaster scenarios.  Almost always there are options to avoid or mitigate
> potential difficulties which don't involve having to carry many pounds of
> "just in case" gear.
>
> Good luck with your planning,
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> This is what i like about you Steel-Eye.. you can say so much with
> carefully selected words.
> (Well that and the fact you are so polite all the time!)
> I totally agree with the(your) above statement.
> I hope you don't mind if I plagerize it for my own from time to time.
> Cheers-Iceaxe
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