[pct-l] Recruiting New Water Cachers!

[belcherjd at juno.com]

I'm with you Lindsey, I feel a little sad not to have been able to thru hike the trail before it has gotten so popular and supported.

Like Steel Eye I've been hiking the trail long before it became the PCT and have had the dream of hiking the trails (that now make up the PCT) from Mexico to Canada since about 1968.

However, it makes my wife happy that there will be so many more hikers on the trail all looking out for each other and in particular, looking out for her hubby. 

My biggest fear for the trail is that "caring for one another" will dissipate into an "it's your problem not mine" attitude.
Is this a possibility??

'til later,
jon


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Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:12:57 -0400
From: Lindsey Sommer <lgsommer at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Recruiting New Water Cachers!
To: Ken Murray <kmurray at pol.net>
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Ken, you make some interesting points.

In a lot of ways, I'm a little sad that I've waited until next summer to do
a hike. Growing up in northern California, I've known about the trail my
whole life, but unfortunately the only time I've had a REAL summer off (I'm
in grad school for the next 2 years) has coincided with all the things
you've mentioned as well as the "Wild" Oprah effect.

However, while I have no comment on whether the trail is getting easier
(I've never hiked it, so I don't know one way or the other), it does seem
like long distance hiking and the PCT have been getting more attention in
general (regardless of "Wild", effect, from your experience this seems to
have started a before the past year).

And I agree, managing the number of people wanting to hike is going to be
one of the biggest challenges over the next few years, ESPECIALLY now that
they're making a movie from Strayed's book. In a lot of ways, I feel really
sad and disappointed that I've somehow missed experiencing the trail the
way it used to be, because I suspect that will make a huge difference in
terms of the number of people wanting to hike it.

Cheers,
Lindsey

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