[pct-l] Chaos On The PCT

[James F. Miller]

I have a friend who used a hammock. she slept on the ground two nights on the entire trail.
 
> From: paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 10:29:58 -0500
> To: hikelite at gmail.com
> CC: pct-l at backcountry.net; DTow at americanriverbank.com
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Chaos On The PCT
> 
> There are places you cannot hang a hammock....
> 
> ... But if you want to just cowboy camp those sections you can bring a hammock instead of a tent
> 
> Sent from my iPod
> 
> On 2011-03-02, at 1:56 AM, Kevin Cook <hikelite at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If I choose NOT to sleep on the floor can I still be a thru hiker this year
> > (I'm a hammocker after all and we don't do "the ground" if at all possible)?
> > LOL
> > 
> > Loved this post too!
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Melanie Clarke <melaniekclarke at gmail.com>wrote:
> > 
> >> I enjoyed this as well! I've enjoyed the comedy and amused by the
> >> personalities on the PCT-L.
> >> 
> >> This is my first Kick Off. How rowdy do these things get? I mean, this
> >> will be a classier event than Burning Man right? I've never been to
> >> Burning
> >> Man but my neighbor has and I hear the stories...
> >> 
> >> Melanie
> >> 
> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Tow, Doug <DTow at americanriverbank.com
> >>> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> PCT PARTICIPANT PANIC OFFICIALLY SETS IN
> >>> 
> >>> Western United States - With the arrival of March, the low fever of a
> >>> few has developed into a full-blown panic of hundreds, as hikers
> >>> anticipate and prepare for their Pacific Crest Trail departure. Rumors
> >>> abound of grown men and women sleeping on the floor, walking in the
> >>> freezing rain, and packing and repacking their gear.
> >>> 
> >>> Homeland security has gone to alert Orange in response to email chatter
> >>> about "resupply buckets," "bounce boxes," and, most alarming of all, the
> >>> best way to "protect my pack" at airport check-in. In an attempt not to
> >>> alert authorities, suspects are advising their adherents to avoid flying
> >>> with Bic lighters, hexamine tablets, and isobutane. There appears to be
> >>> an indecipherable code in use nicknamed
> >>> ADZPCTKOMYGODMYPACKCANTWEIGHSEVENTEENFRIGGINPOUNDSOMGOMGOMG.
> >>> 
> >>> Paranormal activity is on the rise as well. Incredible stories of
> >>> "angels" and "beautiful oases in the desert" and feet spontaneously
> >>> growing as much as 2 1/2 sizes are rampant.
> >>> 
> >>> "I don't know what's going on," commented San Diego grocery store owner
> >>> Sal Fishburn, "but I got these wild-eyed people asking how long my
> >>> tortillas stay fresh. How should I know? Don't folks just buy them and
> >>> eat them? Then, those loonies see how many of them they can stuff in
> >>> this big blue plastic keg thingie. Geez!"
> >>> 
> >>> Shroomer, Steel-Eye, and Halfmile, whose real names are being withheld
> >>> pending notification of next of kin, have made valiant attempts to calm
> >>> raw nerves, to no avail.
> >>> 
> >>> byline Doug Tow
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