[pct-l] New Wanna-be Thru-hiker

[JPL]

I thought Diane's posts were quite reasonable.  Cogent even!!  

-----Original Message----- 
From: Diane Soini 
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 11:51 PM 
To: Stephen Clark 
Cc: Pct-L at backcountry.net serve 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] New Wanna-be Thru-hiker 

Who is nit-picking and bashing? Why is everybody blaming me for  
something I am not doing? I seem to be the only one who actually  
thought he was really going to go moneyless. I thought that without  
judgment based on the fact that I know moneyless people exist in the  
world and I follow their blogs.

On Sep 23, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Stephen Clark wrote:

> Hi All,
> Could we please stop the nit picking and bashing? The purpose of  
> this list
> is the dissemination of information pertaining to the trail and long
> distance hiking.  Someone asks a question or is in quest of   
> information
> and those of us with experience have the opportunity to share what  
> we have
> learned. Each of us hikes our own hike and what works for me may  
> not work
> for you.
> The information shared here gives the new, or for that matter any  
> degree of
> experience, hiker the opportunity to try out different methods of
> approaching a situation before they get out there in the middle of  
> nowhere
> and have their equipment fall over a cliff as it were, a chance to  
> see what
> works for them.
> Yes, some of the quires seem trivial, others downright ridiculous,  
> and most
> have been asked and answered time and time again, but it all serves a
> purpose.
> Let us not forget that we were once all beginners that know next to  
> nothing
> point and the list may have helped us too.
> Let's stop the nit picking and bashing.
> Quackers
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Diane Soini <dianesoini at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, and in addition to thinking that Roger actually was planning to
>> hike as a moneyless man like Daniel Suelo or Mark Boyle (or else why
>> would he say "no money" twice), I wanted to add that I have found
>> that a lot of visitors to the US totally underestimate how vast and
>> empty it is. People can travel without money, but it's a lot easier
>> if you're going to do something like go to the Rainbow Gathering and
>> Burning Man.
>>
>> Apparently he didn't really mean "no money" as it seems he's got his
>> resupplies all planned out and money is just going to be "tight".
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