[BULK] - RE: [pct-l] Independent Hiking & Trail Angels

[whitethunder10 at hotmail.com (Joseph Niemiec)]

Yes but unlike Sparta, both hiker 1 and hiker 2 will experience both kinds 
of people on the trail... However most of the people I met were kind.




>From: Karl Brandt <brandt@snf.stanford.edu>
>To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [BULK] - RE: [pct-l] Independent Hiking & Trail Angels
>Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:45:29 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>There's a fable I heard years ago that serves as a good lesson for
>thru-hikers. I've heard it in several forms so I'll retell it in the 
form
>I heard it first.
>
>The scene is the gates to ancient Sparta.
>
>
>Traveler 1:  "I've never been to Sparta before. What are the people 
like?"
>Gatekeeper:  "Well, what are the people like in the town you come 
from?"
>Traveler 1:  "They're good honest, generous, hard-working 
people."
>Gatekeeper:  "You'll find the people of Sparta are like that 
too."
>
>Traveler 2:  "I've never been to Sparta before. What are the people 
like?"
>Gatekeeper:  "Well, what are the people like in the town you come 
from?"
>Traveler 2:  "They're lazy and greedy. They cheat, steal and 
lie."
>Gatekeeper:  "You'll find the people of Sparta are like that 
too."
>
>
>-Karl
>
>*********************************************************************
>Karl Brandt PCT97
>http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~kbrandt/
>
>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Joseph Niemiec wrote:
>
> > Or maybe it was just pure greed.
> >
> > Mouse
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: "PCT List" 
<PCT@DelNorteResort.Com>
> > >To: "Mike Saenz" 
<msaenz@mve-architects.com>
> > >CC: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> > >Subject: Re: [BULK] - RE: [pct-l] Independent Hiking 
& Trail Angels
> > >Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:51:53 -0800
> > >
> > >Mike, to be fair, ask yourself why they would charge $5 to 
post a
> > >lousy message on a bulletin board?
> > >
> > >Just pure greed, maybe?
> > >
> > >Maybe it was brought on by people abusing the priviledge. 
Dozens of
> > >messages, pins gone, business cards obscured or missing, 
etc.
> > >
> > >Did you bother to ask yourself (or anyone else)  what the 
purpose of the
> > >board is? Or did
> > >you just consider what YOU needed it for, therefore, the 
owners are
> > idiots?
>
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