[pct-l] Hiking for Charity

[yogihikes at sbcglobal.net (yogi)]

To anyone considering hiking for any other cause than 
for the simple love of it:
 
Consider NOT soliciting donations from your fellow hikers.  
This has happened to me several times on the trail, and 
someone even sent me an email requesting a donation last 
year.  I suppose they got my email address from one of 
the internet lists.
 
Fellow hikers Happy Jo (PCT'02) and Freefall (PCT'03) 
both raised money while hiking.  Unless you logged on 
to their journal sites, you would never have known they 
were hiking for charity.  I never heard them mention it 
while on the trail.  In my opinion, that's how it should 
be done.
 
yogi
www.pcthandbook.com
 
 


carol bruno <carolwbruno@yahoo.com> wrote:
I would be very interested in hearing the response to this. My son is in Iraq and I had considered thru-hiking the rest of the trail (currently a section hiker) for the troops---kind of a 'yellow ribbon' hike that could raise money for them. But there is a part of me that wants to keep it just about the hiking---the beauty, the pleasure, and the intangibles that bless us along the way, and even those things we consider curses along the way. So, I kinda blew that idea off. I admire the sentiment but feel very ambivalent.

Good luck to you and I would be the first to contribute, if that is your determination..

HYOH
Can'tquit



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