[pct-l] I like the ADZ

[metam01 at earthlink.net (Monty Tam)]

Some like chocolate....Some like the vanilla.

The only sure way to get critisized is to do something.

I like the ADZ
Last year I attended and thru-hiked for my first time.
I consider it the most helpful of all the help I have received on the trail.
No contest.

This year I learned quite a bit more about the ADZ and its organizers.  A big one is that no one sits around and tells other people what to do.  
The reason?
There's no one to tell what to do.  
That guy picking up garbage is probably one of the organizers.
About a dozen people welcomed, educated, entertained, fed and accomodated over 500 people last weekend.
The organizing process took about a year.
No one got paid for this.

I admire those who help others and I'm glad I get to help a little too.


There may be other ways to help hikers.  Ways that don't get picked up by the ADZ.  Hundreds of trail angels take care of some of those.

If people do what they feel need to be done the focus may change and it may be clearer than that idea for someone else to do.

No Hatfields.  No McKoys.  Just a lot of positive loving actions like the Sixties would have been if people weren't getting stoned all the time.

Warner Springs Monty

(This started out as just a couple sentences)