[pct-l] llamas as food

[whitethunder10 at hotmail.com (Joseph Niemiec)]

Hey that's a great idea.  Just have your food walk along with you!   Drop 10 
lbs off yer pack weight!
I think I'm going to herd some chickens along this year ...

Just kidding.  Can you ride a llama? did they carry your stuff?  You just 
walking them or did they follow you down the trail?

I can just see a hungry mt lion or bear being really confused.

That's too funny.



>From: Marion Davison <mardav@charter.net>
>To: PCT List <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Subject: [pct-l] resupply adventures
>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:02:18 -0800
>
>Never have I felt quite so alien as when we hiked into Cedar Grove to pick 
>up a resupply, with three llamas. The resupplies are held in a metal 
>storage building behind a ranger station at a major campground.  It took 
>some doing to find a ranger with a key.  The boxes were too heavy and bulky 
>to carry off to a more private place, so we did our resupply right there in 
>the parking lot, next to three parked llamas.  We were mobbed by curious 
>tourists and got the attention of every uniformed ranger in the area. When 
>typical windshield tourists see llamas in National parks, they seem to 
>think we are part of the attraction.  They want to put their kids on a 
>llamas back and take a picture.  The llamas say no way.   They always ask 
>the same set of questions.  I used to enjoy the attention, but I have come 
>to dread it.  We joke about printing up an FAQ brochure to hand them as we 
>quietly walk away.
>It is better for us to do a resupply at someplace like Vermillion where the 
>viewing public is much smaller.
>Marion
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