[pct-l] Report on Continual PCT Conditions Idea

[tahoe.cat at verizon.net (Bill & Cathy)]

Hi All  I've tried to send a message to the list but I keep getting an
attachment to my letter so I hope sending it off of Greg it might not get an
attachment.
First I was wondering why the trail doesn't have a drinking fountain every
quarter mile and a restaurant every ten Miles? I think that would
be----well---not what the doctor ordered. Now with what I was writing.
Got in from the trail at 12:00 noon. My Granddaughter and I started at the
173 yesterday at 5:12 am and were at McDonalds at the I-15 at 9:30 am this
morning. I didn't have to carry so much water. There are a lot of creeks
flowing and very easy re-supply. It was very hot on Saturday, from 11:00 am
until 3:00 pm it was 95 degrees, umbrella time. The detour, up that blacktop
road to the water tank, was a bummer for me. Came across two runners
Saturday morning going south bound. The trail was in good shape most of the
way. When we went under the 138 we located the trail marker on the north
west corner right away but lost it very fast because of the creek. We went
back to the road and followed that past the workers residence area and into
the group camp area, which lead us back to the trail. There were a few areas
of very high fox tail weeds, higher than 6'.
That's all for now Remember  "Be Prepared" Ground Pounder Bill " Semper Fi"
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Subject: Re: [pct-l] Report on Continual PCT Conditions Idea


> Switch,
>
> Naw, let's just permanently post "trail guardians" every 100 yards and
house them in make-shift shelters at, say, $40,000 each.  Now 2,658 miles
divided by 100 yards equals 886 "trail guardian shelters" times $40,000 is
only $35,440,000 and then their yearly salary of minimum wage would work out
to $119,610,000 per year ($6.75 x 40 hrs/wk x 50 weeks x 886) .  Thus an
endowment of a billion or two would put a total security net all along the
trail and no one would ever get lost again, no one would ever be without
immediate help again and the true, rich, vanilla flavor of the trail could
finally come out!
>
> Hee, hee!
>
> (tic)
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hiker97@aol.com
> To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Cc: Rattlesnake5648@Yahoo.com; carolwbruno@yahoo.com
> Sent: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:50:33 EDT
> Subject: [pct-l] Report on Continual PCT Conditions Idea
>
>
> I have a great idea for yearly real time updates of the PCT weather  and
> trail conditions.  There is a fellow on the journal list hiking the  trail
with
> a
> laptop and satellite phone (Pete Behmer _http://pct2005.com_
> (http://pct2005.com) ).  This are great  posts because they are so current
from
> the trail.
> Almost daily pictures  and dialog of conditions.  Really neat.
>
> Here is my idea.  Someone with a lot of money could do an endowment to
the
> PCTA for a 6 or 7-person team to start out one week apart (and stay one
week
> apart) each year on the trail.  Say from mid April to the end of May. They
> would be equipped with a laptop and satellite phone to post daily reports
of the
>
> trail.  Here is the requirements.
> 1.  Have a lot of money, say $5 million for the interest to equal
$100,000
> per year to fund the 6 person teams forever.  I would guess each  team
would
> have 3 persons times $5,000 each for trail costs (18 times  $5,000).  That
> equals $90,000 per year for the program.  The extra  $10,000 is for
equipment
> replacement and phone service fees each year for 5  months.  Of course,
the
> initial
> equipment costs might be a little  higher.  I just bought a $400 laptop
from
> Frys on a Fourth of July ad  special and had it upgraded for $110 to half
a
> Gig of memory.  Really nice  little computer for the Internet with
Ethernet
> connection.
> 2.  Set up the endowment to the PCTA for the yearly teams.
> 3.  Make sure Switchback is the exclusive executor of the  estate.
> 4.  Die.
>
> This would solve a lot of problems with the continual need to know what is
> going on out there each year.  Also, there is a safety element to this, so
if
> there is a problem help can be gotten right away.
>
> Always putting you first and thinking of your safety,  Switchback
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