[pct-l] Re: PCT-L digest, Vol 1 #709 - 10 msgs

[LWollenweb@aol.com (LWollenweb@aol.com)]

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Put me down for someone who can't chill and wishes more people knew the right
of way rules on the trail!  I think uphill has the right of way unless the
uphill hiker decides he/she wants to stop and let the downhill hiker come
through first.

It would be nice if both parties stopped and passed a few pleasantries.  But,
if it's a narrow trail, someone has to go first.

Most times I'm the one who stops and pulls over in either direction because I
get closer and closer to the hiker coming toward me and it doesn't appear
he/she is going to pull over.  Often, I feel, hikers don't know what to do in
these situations - - they don't have rules to rely on, like on the road, and
continue on.





> Message: 7
> Reply-To: "Carl Siechert" <carl@pct77.org>
> From: "Carl Siechert" <csiechert@hotmail.com>
> To: "pct-l" <pct-l@backcountry.net>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] trail ettiquette
> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 22:14:10 -0800
>
> Exactly! In all my years of hiking, I don't ever recall "right of way"
> being
> an issue among hikers. That author needs to chill.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <hhloth@msn.com>
> >How about they both stop and exchange a few pleasantries.
> >
> >Helen Hillberg
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >Wrom: RQBGJSNBOH
> >Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 6:59 PM
> >To: pct-l
> >Subject: [pct-l] trail ettiquette
> >
> >I have a question for everyone.  I recently read an article where the
> author
> >was appalled by the bad manners of up-hill hikers not stepping aside to
> give
> >him, the down hill hiker, the right of way.  Am I wrong all these 40+
> years?
>
>