[pct-l] Boots or shoes

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

On May 19, 2012, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
> 10 years ago many hikers started out with a packsack full of corn  
> pasta,
> but they became somewhat of a laughing-stock so they quickly dumped  
> the
> stuff in hiker boxes.

Actually, I'm not sure they became laughing-stocks for having corn  
pasts. I think the stuff just tasted horrible and so that is why it  
got dumped in the hiker boxes. Beware any pasta you see in hiker  
boxes the first 100 miles of the trail. It's probably corn pasta.

I sort of became a laughing-stock for a Jardinism myself. I was  
hiking the day out of Kennedy Meadows when it suddenly began to pour.  
I was kinda too late to really get my rain gear on so I quickly put  
my jacket on backwards so I wouldn't have to take off my pack. (I had  
it so I could just whip out my jacket from a side pocket.) I also  
whipped out my umbrella quickly. I was walking along and somebody  
coming the other way made a snide comment about me doing the Ray  
Jardine thing with my running shoes, umbrella and jacket on  
backwards. I didn't say anything to him, but I realized hey, yeah, I  
AM doing the Ray Jardine thing but that's only because he's right and  
it works.