[pct-l] Money

[m.karon at comcast.net (Marshall Karon)]

Buy a phone card! No quarters needed.

Marshall Karon
Portland, OR
m.karon@comcast.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tangent" <tangent@meinfelder.com>
To: "PCT Mail List (E-mail)" <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: [pct-l] Money


> At 10:54 AM 2/23/2004 -0800, Mike Saenz wrote:
> >But what about those quarters? Has anyone had a problem getting change
> >wherever coin-op conveniences are available?
>
> I don't buy that quarters are worth their weight in gold. I'd dump my
> change before leaving town. Usually giving it to a hiker just arriving.
>
> In the larger towns, there are adequate places to get change. In the small
> resorts, you can run a tab for most things. One exception is the evil and
> weird phone at Kennedy Meadows which insists on eating a quarter before
> doing anything, even dialing an 800 number. The Kennedy Meadows
proprietors
> were low on quarters but did not run out while I was there.
>
> Tangent
>
>
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