[pct-l] PCT Rituals

[Mike Chapman]

I like to dig holes and put my soft square cottony cards every 20
miles or so,if you find my cards,I hope we could still be friends.
Hike On.(Oh boy,get some butter,cause im on a roll)

On 3/6/11, Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net> wrote:
> I've made up "business" cards to give out when I meet people on the trail
> or elsewhere that is hiking related.  I have my name, address, phone (land
> line) and email address. That way we can contact the other if desired.
>
> HYOH, YMMV, especially if I'm driving.
>
> Tortoise
>
> <>  Because truth matters.<>
>
>
> On 03/04/11 21:29, Kevin wrote:
>> I know you're kidding Switchback, but I'm actually going to carry just
>> such a card. Actually I decided to print them on regular paper to male
>> them lighter.
>>
>> Since it's come up, what would you all recommend putting on said "card"?
>>
>> I don't have an official trail name yet. My journal uses Hayduke, so
>> fellow postholer journalers have been calling me that. I'm not sure what
>> to put-on the card. I was thinking I would put the address of the journal
>> and my "realife" name. Anything else others would recommend?
>>
>> Misspellings and typos brought to you by iPhone.
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 10:17 AM, hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I was thinking that we need more rituals and hiking tribe standards on
>>> the trail.  For example, we we greet each other on the trail, we should
>>> have hiking business cards to exchange with email addresses, etc.  This
>>> would create unity and the card weight would only be a fraction for the
>>> good it would do and friendships it would generate.
>>>
>>> Even in the animal kingdom, there are rituals.  For example, did you ever
>>> wonder why you never see dead penguins in documentaries of Antarctica?
>>> It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic.  These birds
>>> live an extremely ordered and complex life.  The penguin is very
>>> committed to its family and will mate for life, as well as maintaining a
>>> form of compassionate contact with its offspring throughout its life.
>>>
>>> If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the
>>> family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using
>>> their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the
>>> dead bird to be rolled into and buried.
>>>
>>> The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and
>>> sing: "Freeze a jolly good fellow! Freeze a jolly good fellow!"  Then
>>> they kick him in the ice hole.
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, cough, burp, "pardon".  Ha, ha, ha, ha,
>>> ha, ha, ha.  Switchback strikes again.
>>>
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