[pct-l] Muir Trail Ranch

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At 12:07 PM 1/9/02, tom hopkins wrote:
>Myself and my friend were shown the gate and not the T-shirts or postcards!

I've been there 3 times.

All three were pretty much the same:

*Walk in the gate, past the barking dog.
*Look around for someone to tell me where my stuff is. After a while a 
cowboy (or girl) wanders over
*Rummage through the stone shed, with the steel door, and the 3 crossbars 
holding it shut, till I find my bucket.
*Get shown the hiker box (a 55 gallon drum, actually), and told where to 
leave any trash, and the cowboy (or girl) wanders away.
*Get left alone while I eat the heavy canned stuff I packed to eat at the 
resupply, and sort through my stuff.
*Leave without hanging out too long, or seeing anyone to say goodbye to.

Not hostile, not friendly, not helpful, not much of anything. I never 
stayed long enough to "wear out my welcome."

This is not a trail angel, nor a hostel nor a place for a break

HOWEVER if you are not in the mood for a break, or leave the wilderness, it 
is a hell of a lot closer to the trail than VVR.

On my hikes, I didn't want to leave the trail, so the $45 was worth not 
having to take a detour and lose a day or two.