Re: [pct-l] Re: pct-l-digest V1 #1014

["Sally Forth" <s_forth@hotmail.com>]

Has anyone who responded to Will's post hiked every step of the PCT?  Do you
know what you would have done if you were walking in his shoes?
Will Stenzel accomplished something that no other hiker in 1999
accomplished.  He solo hiked the High Sierra and was the first one through.
He didn't have the companionship and comfort of a fellow human being to
help him through the death defying, spirits sapping parts.  He didn't have
footsteps to follow to lessen the isolation. He didn't quit in the face of
the snowpack, or wait for other hikers to catch up.
He later left the trail.  Does this make him a failure?
BTW it is my opinion that E-mails are not conducive to really understanding
where someone is coming from.  Without eye contact and body language it is
very difficult to hear what is really being said.  If what you read in an
e-mail offends or upsets you, try asking the poster if you have heard right
before nailing his hide to the wall.
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From:          Jeffrey Olson <jjolson@uwyo.edu>
Date:          Sat, 29 Jan 2000 09:42:36 -0700
Subject:       [pct-l] Film ASA
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A question about ASA.  I have always taken slides, and used 25 ASA film
in my old Olympus XA-1.  My assumption, which may be wrong, is that the
lower the ASA, the richer the "burn" of the image on film.  I have also
assumed that the kind of shots I take, usually from the tops of passes
to chronicle where I've been and where I'm going, are best taken with
low ASA film.  

Are my assumptions correct???

Jeffrey Olson
Laramie WY
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