[pct-l] Three questions to the list for 2012

[Donna White]

Reminds me of a trip to Alaska. Fishermen routinely wear one clothes up for
the fishing trip and burn them right before they head home. 

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From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Maxine Weyant

I hiked the last part of the Camino de Santiago in Spain last May, which is
a pilgrimage hike that started in the Middle Ages.  For centuries, after
hiking to Santiago, the weary pilgrims would then hike to the end of the
peninsula (Finisterre) and burn their stinky, and often lice-infested,
clothes. If it weren't for the fire hazard in Manning Park and the toxic
fumes from our synthetic clothes, it'd be tempting to start that tradition
at the end of the PCT.  Kind of a cleansing or purification ritual. But then
again, so is hiking the PCT.