[pct-l] Scary bear story & not hanging food

[brick at fastpack.com (Brick Robbins)]

At 10:23 AM 7/21/04, Bighummel@aol.com wrote:
>Ouch!  Even if thru-hikers are only 1% of the problem does this mean that we
>are not responsible for our behavior?  Ouch, Brick.

Strider:

I did a little WAG  (Wild Ass Guess) estimate based on wilderness permits 
issued for Inyo NF and estimating that 200 thru hiker make it to the Sierra 
and they hike 20 miles a day: Thru hikers account for about 0.01% of the 
hiker nights spent in the Sierra. (Wild Ass Guess)

So at most they are only about 0.01% of the problem, but probably less 
since the typical thru hiker schedule puts them thru ahead of bear season.

You can make a moral or philosophical decision that zero tolerance on 
"scoff-law thru hikers" is the right thing to do, but from a purely 
practical viewpoint, if the same effort spent on pontificating to thru 
hikers were directed at the other 99.99% of the of the problem, the return 
would probably be greater.

That is why I thought that Tom's threat to spend his money trying to force 
thru hikers to use cannisters, and his ultimate abandonment of this list 
over the same issue was so amusing.

All IMHO. Flames cheerfully ignored

--
Brick Robbins

I don't have time to participate in arguments:
I barely have time to instigate them