[pct-l] PHOTOS

[whitethunder10 at hotmail.com (Joseph Niemiec)]

Hello friends,

Here are some photos of my 2004 PCT adventure... Just a  short sampler.
For those of you looking to do the PCT in 2005 - I just thought this might 
give you some fuel to get amped...

http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?c=87kajwu.qlcuga6&x=0&y=-bn2v74

Mouse '04

>From: "Jeffrey J. Olson" <jjolson@uwyo.edu>
>CC: PCT Mailing List <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT Financial Planning
>Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:02:10 -0700
>
>Don Wilson wrote:
>
>>I can't stand the thought of waiting till I retire (I'm 44). So,
>>I'm trying to work it out to hike in 2005.  Just a couple more
>>details to iron out. As has been said on this list before, it's
>>just a matter of priorities.  I've got a wife and teenage kids too
>>- but they'll support me, and I hope be inspired by their old man
>>chasing something important to him.
>
>I'm in an agonizing kind of way as well.  I'm looking for work
>elsewhere and if I find it, will need to take the summer finishing
>all my house-remodeling projects, sell the house, buy a new one, and
>settle into a new life.  Luckily there are lots of jobs in my field
>- academic social work - so I'll probably land another teaching
>position.  A large minority of me hopes no one wants me, and that I
>can take a year off, hike the PCT, do my writing/research, and do
>another job search next fall and winter.  If I am offered a job,
>I'll ask if I can start in January.
>
>I haven't made the thru-hike a priority, as Don seems to have done.
>A friend talks about how each of us has a myth about ourselves.  He
>has an ice axe, crampons, and took a three day course in
>mountaineering, made it to Camp Muir on Rainier before being driven
>out by the weather.  He says his myth is in his heart of hearts that
>he's a mountaineer.  There is a possibility that my desire to hike
>the PCT is part of my personal myth.  I also want to create a just
>world so all children have enough to eat and a warm and safe place
>to sleep.
>
>I like these musings and wonderings.  I like others modeling looking
>into their hearts and deciding whats really real, what's a myth, and
>what is simple self-deception.  I really liked Don's post...
>
>Jeff Olson
>Laramie Wyoming, where it's 54 degrees outside, four degrees below a
>record high for the day...
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