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[pct-l] Old PCT marker on Ebay!
- Subject: [pct-l] Old PCT marker on Ebay!
- From: eyakel at earthlink.net (Eric Yakel)
- Date: Wed Jun 2 18:20:46 2004
- References: <46.4f7bca16.2de9303b@aol.com> <014301c448e4$9ce5dd70$cfc79342@D1WZL841>
Now that sounds like a good way to get the PCTA a little money. Kudos to
all. However, please don't
take them all.
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanne Lennox" <goforth@cnw.com>
To: <CharlieJones@aol.com>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Old PCT marker on Ebay!
> I gave an old PCT marker to Pete Fish; he gave it to the PCTA who recently
> auctioned it.
>
> I found two quite a ways off an old PCT connector trail in Oregon (I was
> trying to avoid down timber at the time and was walking my horse parallel
to
> the trail which was so old that it was covered in downfall . I found that
I
> could actually get along better off the trail and at the top of a rounded
> rise which paralleled the trail)
>
> The two markers were pristine , nestled, mostly buried by duff, unnailed
and
> had obviously been dropped by a trail person when he crossed a log.
>
> Such markers are also on trails in Washington that used to be the PCT but
> have been abandoned.
>
> I am sure that neither Pete or the PCTA or I envisioned encouraging
actually
> taking markers off trees along the PCT(In fact, the sign that I gave Pete
> never served as a marker as it was never used as such).
>
> Joanne Lennox
>
>
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