[pct-l] Technology on the Trail

[jeffmoorehead1 at cox.net (Jeff Moorehead)]

Being the instigator of the ultralight guitar thread, I must echo Mark's
last message. Even more, why not view technology as a means for facilitating
that important connection between humans and wilderness. As technology
advances in a shrinking an increasingly human world, we can at least be more
creative in how we use that technology to interface with nature. Being alone
and walking in the wild seems to me to be one opportune moment for musical
inspiration. If we can then make and record that music on the spot, why NOT
do it?? Although I am still dealing with that story of the 'mouse carrying
the grand piano'. That's scares me...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mellowmarky@cox.net>
To: "Chuckie V" <rubberchuckie@yahoo.com>; "PCT-List" 
<pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Technology on the Trail


> 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.
>
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