[pct-l] Dangers?

[eyakel at earthlink.net (Eric Yakel)]

He's way younger than us anyway, huh ground pounder?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cathy" <tahoe.cat@verizon.net>
To: "Mike Saenz" <msaenz@mve-architects.com>
Cc: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Dangers?


> Hey "OilCan"  what do you mean when you say " When I was a young boy" ?
> Heck you are a young boy. If my wife and I are still "the kids" to my
> in-laws.  Any plans for your next hike yet?      Ground Pounder
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Saenz" <msaenz@mve-architects.com>
> To: <Trekker4@aol.com>; <pct-l@backcountry.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:06 AM
> Subject: RE: [pct-l] Dangers?
> 
> 
> It's been said that "Variety is the spice of life". I think the varying
> magnitudes of risks are what truly make life interesting.
> How boring life would be if we were assured every minute that no matter
> what our decisions and actions are, there would be no consequences. Or
> more accurately, how unsatisfying life would be if we could not realize
> achievements from our own endeavors.
> When I was a young boy, the biggest attraction of backpacking was the
> feeling of self-sufficiency. To have everything you need on your back to
> sustain you for several days in the wilderness provided a feeling of
> freedom I've rarely experienced to this day. Putting myself in an
> environment where the normally mundane decisions I made carried the
> weight of very real consequences was and still is very exhilarating. My
> parents held a strange mixture of amazement, fear and pride that their
> son would want to spend days on end in the wilderness with nothing but
> the things I packed in my backpack. I'd return dirty, smelly and
> sometimes scratched and bruised, but always with a smile on my face and
> enthusiastic stories of the mountains I'd climb, forests I'd walked
> though, rivers I'd crossed and the things I'd seen.
> After one trip, where the car we took to Independence broke down (a
> truly epic story best told by candle lantern over an oilcan), my parents
> were both fascinated with the story of how we made it back home without
> the car and appalled that I had not called them for help.
> I think we can all agree that it takes a special person to enjoy doing
> what we do. Living out of a backpack isn't for everyone, isn't for MOST
> people. And I like that! I see things and places that the vast majority
> of people would never see outside of a TV documentary. To me, THAT'S
> living!
> 
> 
> Michael Saenz, Associate Partner
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Trekker4@aol.com
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 9:11 AM
> To: pct-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: [pct-l] Dangers?
> 
> It's far more dangerous to get in your car and  drive anywhere, than it
> is to hike anywhere. People frequently ask about the  dangers of hiking;
> I always told them it was far more dangerous for them to ride  in a car
> I was driving than to hike anywhere. I was, and am, a professional
> driver and a good driver.
> I've been complimented on my driving by  strangers.
> 
> Bob "Trekker"
> Big Bend Desert Denizen
> (Naturalized Citizen, Republic of  Texas)
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