[pct-l] Technology on the Trail

[mellowmarky at cox.net (mellowmarky@cox.net)]

Whose to say these people would have left technology behind? If Ansel Adams was 30 years old today he might be carrying an 11 mega-pixel camera and a laptop to store his pictures. John Muir might be carrying a palm pilot for taking notes and a gps for marking where a herd of goats were.

It's easy to look back and assume that these legendary people who fit our romantic ideals would be the same if alive today, but who's to say? Heck, if alive today Muir might have become a lawyer.


Mark



> 
> From: Chuckie V <rubberchuckie@yahoo.com>
> Date: 2005/01/18 Tue AM 11:40:20 EST
> To: PCT-List <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Subject: [pct-l] Technology on the Trail
> 
> I often wonder how H.D. Thoreau or John Muir or Clinton Clarke would have felt if they were alive today about hikers and their need to bring technology into the wilderness with them.