[pct-l] # 38 Super Secret

[Hiker97 at aol.com (Hiker97@aol.com)]

#38 - Hiking Business Cards: Just like in everyday life, a small business 
card with you name, cell phone, email, trail journal address, trails done, etc., 
is a great way to introduce yourself and let people know how to keep up to 
date on your progress.  The creativity for such hiking cards would be very 
interesting.  I bet people would collect them and write the date on the card when 
they got them.  I noticed this technique on the trail this year out of the April 
Kickoff and thought it was very clever.  The cost would be minimal to get 
some printed up.  Also, I think there is safety element to having these cards for 
distribution.  People know where and when they met you and that could be 
valuable if something happened.  It certainly would have been this year on the 
trail.  I know if I was out doing a long hike, I would like to collect personal 
hiking cards of all the people I met along the way.  It would be part of my 
memories of the hike.  For you ultra lights, the weight of some cards would be 
minimal or you could have some holes in your cards.

Your as soon as the snow melts out hiking buddy, Switchback