[pct-l] FIRE PERMIT REQUIRED_YES

[Bighummel at aol.com (Bighummel@aol.com)]

This issue has already been raised with the PCTA and the USFS.  It sure seems 
to make sense that when you get a thru-hiker permit from the PCTA that a fire 
permit would be included through collaboration with the USFS.    In this way 
the USFS can provide all of the fire safety information to all of those 
thru-hikers with the fire permit issued through the PCTA.

FYI, a USFS manager (of the John Muir and Ansel Adams Wilderness Areas) will 
be attending and speaking at the ADZPCTKO.  He will be addressing bear / food 
protection issues, fire safety and anything else that you care to discuss with 
him.

Hike on,

Greg

In a message dated 3/9/2005 4:45:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
blisterfree@isp01.net writes:
Obviously this issue is of such import and magnitude that 
the PCTA doesn't automatically include the fire permit with 
the thru-hiker's permit. Nor do they even advertise it as a 
separate-fee permit available to those desiring it, a la the 
Whitney Zone stamp. Rather, we are required to research the 
matter for ourselves, in order to find the answer we knew 
we'd find, straight from the top. And we then set off 
without the fire permit and light fires anyway, though 
always with one eye over our shoulder and a certain paranoid 
flicker in our eyes.

- blisterfree


> FIRE PERMIT REQUIRED
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