[pct-l] Deadly trails of America

[Montedodge@aol.com]

 To a total non-hiker, the PCT is a dangerous place and only a person one fry 
short of a happy meal would ever step more than ten feet up it's path of 
doom!!!!  What about all the snake??? What do you do? What about the snow 
storms?? What about spiders and lack of water?? ----- This is the stuff I got 
hammered with back in the 70's and got tired of trying to explain. That is 
the reason I refer to the PCT as " The Trail of Death". To a non-hiker , the 
trail is something only fools would ever tackle.  One only has to look back 
at the Warner Springs Police Department where Local cops told this years 
hikers dozens of "Deadly Snake Stories" or how everyone in town has lost a 
relative to the desert in some manner. Most people on this list are quite 
capable in the outdoors, but are far from mainstream americians. To most 
people, the stuff you do by second nature is totally foreign to them. ( like 
snow camping, how to hike in a desert, how to cook and how to pack without 
the volume of a mini-van. Yes , to many, the PCT is the Trail of Death!!!! 
Don't forget the cell-phone, you will most likely need it!!! ( Or at least 
90% of theUS citizens would)
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