[pct-l] LIttle Known facts and Triva of PCT and KO Party with MadMonte

[scourtway at bpa-arch.com (Steve Courtway)]

man.  greg was so adamant about leaving the old trailmarkers where they lay,
and turns out he's got the damn monument sign in his backyard.....

sheesh.


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Subject: Re: [pct-l] LIttle Known facts and Triva of PCT and KO Party with
MadMonte


> Damn it, Monte, there you go again, spreading half truths, lies and
absolute
> facts around about things you don't have a clue about!  The  original
> Monument 78 was actually found in Tutt's tomb in Egypt (thus the narrow
pyramidal
> structure).  In the 1976 fundamentalist revolt in Egypt, three  Egyptian
> outdoorsmen concealed their actual identities cleverly as stupid  American
> backpackers, called themselves "The Kelty Kids" (boy, what an obvious,
blatant,
> simplistic attempt to cover their true identities!), hiked the trail in
'77 and upon
> reaching the monument reclaimed it in the name of the Southern  Islamic
> Council of Kiltermen or S.I.C.K.  They secreted it away,  packed it in
wooden
> crates and sent it back to Egypt, where it now stands at the  intersection
of Suez
> Blvd. and Tutt Way in a lovely waterfountain.  There  have been recent
> rumours, mostly unfounded and discredited, that a small group  of American
> backpackers have been planning a coup to bring it back to the  border.
>
> Any information about it being in my backyard and being used for a
> basketball pole is unfounded, lies and simply not true.
>
> Greg
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