[pct-l] News links

[dsaufley at sprynet.com (dsaufley@sprynet.com)]

Monty, I know you're mad about the article.  But I see it another way.  

It really doesn't matter what you did back in the real world, or what you're going to do when you get back.  The Trail is the great equalizer, and the more immersed the hiker is their thru-hike, the more detached they are from those past or future existences.  So, in a sense, everyone out for the long haul on the trail is simply a thru-hiker, nothing more, nothing less.  If they're lawyers, they're not lawyering; they're dirty/hungry/thirsty/awed just like the next person.  Same for doctors, teachers, pilots, students, whatever. I say with the greatest respect and deepest love that they're all dirty, stinky, hiker trash (and proud of it).  This is the very essence of what I love so much about our experience with the thru-hikers; it is the antithesis of the rest of society which is all about what you do, what you drive, and where you live.  On the Trail, who bleepin' cares???  Honestly, section hikers are the only ones who talk about their outside lives and financial identities unasked.

I can really understand what this well-intentioned "outsider" saw in his brief observations of the hiking community while here.  He saw only the wonderful, bohemian existence of the moment for the folks he met.  It's like the blind man feeling and describing the elephant; he only describes that which he senses.  

The PCT, and the hikers upon it, are like many-faceted jewels.  Depending on how you hold it up, the light will change its appearance and beauty.  Chris only saw a few facets, but he really enjoyed it.  He took the time to try to be a part of it.  His approach was open and full of wonder.  And he exaggerated or lied about nothing.  Like it or not, to the uneducated or oblivious outsider, hikers really appear to be unemployed bums on a lark.  I'd say it's a badge of honor -- wear it with pride. 

-=Donna Saufley=-



-----Original Message-----
From: Monty Tam <metam01@earthlink.net>
Sent: Jan 7, 2005 6:35 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: RE: [pct-l] News links


Author of an LA Times article?  Was that the guy who wrote the article
depicting thru-hikers as mangy dogs, homeless and unemployed, while where
he did his research(Sauffley's) there were quire a few productive and even
successful hikers there at the time.(Two contractors, a medical secretary,
a wherhouse manager for a large toy distributor, a physical theripist, and
even a doctor and his overly brilliant son.  Most of these people own their
own homes.  (Guess I'm still a little pissed)

If I were that guy, I wouldn't send it out either after some of the flack I
know he received.  (It, buy the way was on this list.)

As far as copyrights, I doubt newspapers send every paper to the Library of
Congress with the $30 standard fee and paperwork.  They could possibly do a
poor man's copyright(mail it to themselves).  Or nothing at all, which
would leave a lot of gray areas.  It's very common in the media (TV news
and documentries,and in print) to see photos of articles.  Permission
required?  
I love to have my stuff in print and performed by just about anyone.  My
copyrights reserve me the right to say "time to negotiate" if someone
starts making money with my works.
 
Gray areas..........................................Someone might say
"Don't", but who's going to sue a mangy hiker?  I mean a hiker.

Warner Springs Monty

> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Ellinwood <rellinwood@worldnet.att.net>
> To: Chuckie V <rubberchuckie@yahoo.com>; PCT MailingList
<pct-l@backcountry.net>
> Cc: <pmags@yahoo.com>
> Date: 1/7/2005 2:47:04 PM
> Subject: RE: [pct-l] News links
>
>
>
> > Of couse, this might be infringement...I know nothing about copyright
> laws, but can't imagine
> > a "newspaper" article posted on the Internet isn't fair game enough to
> share on a forum.
>
> I'd err on the side of suspecting it's not fair game.  All I know is that
> the actual author of an article in the LA Times could not and would not
send
> me a copy, citing that it would be illegal.
>
> Dr Bob
>
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