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[pct-l] RE: Food storage/Bear Boxes



Have to agree Brick, especially the economies of scale..there are
THOUSANDS of hikers every year coming out of Yosemite alone!


R

At 02:26 PM 11/7/02 -0800, Brick Robbins wrote:
>At 11:46 AM 11/7/02, Reynolds, WT wrote:
>>However I intend to take Greg Hummel's advice and shoot people not bears. I
>>will organize a vigilante posse armed with wrist rockets and steelies to
>>police the PCT and run off any pesky thruhikers who don't store food
>>properly
>
>Tom:
>
>I just don't understand your fascination with trying to make thru hikers
>carry bear cans.
>
>Besides the fact that they are experienced wilderness visitors by the time
>they make it to bear country, there simply aren't enough of them to make a
>difference. Of the 200 or so that start in Campo, how many make it to the
>Sierra? A hundred?
>
>There are more clueless weekenders than that on the Rae Lakes loop on EVERY
>summer weekend, all densely packed into the regular camp sites; not to
>mention all the totally inept car campers.
>
>The effort you spend worrying about the food storage habits of thru-hikers
>would probably be much more useful if directed somewhere else.
>
>--
>Brick Robbins
>
>All that is gold does not glitter,
>not all those who wander, are lost....
>
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