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Donna?
I just realized that I just wrote about what you just wrote about what I
wrote about not liking what he wrote??????
It's wonderful we all can write.
Monty


> [Original Message]
> From: Monty Tam <metam01@earthlink.net>
> To: pct-l <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: 1/8/2005 12:43:47 PM
> Subject: RE: [pct-l] News links
>
> Hi Donna
>
> Never met the guy. Missed him by one day.  I felt very tight with, and I
am
> one of those, he wrote about.   I don't like what he wrote.  I like you
and
> I feel you're a great judge of character among other great qualities you
> posess.  I don't like what he wrote.  
>
> Monty
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <dsaufley@sprynet.com>
> > To: <metam01@earthlink.net>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> > Date: 1/8/2005 11:38:28 AM
> > Subject: RE: [pct-l] News links
> >
> > 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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