[pct-l] Hiking for Charity

[mlissner at michaeljaylissner.com (Michael J. Lissner)]

It was I that sent you that email last year. I fully admit to it, for I
think it is fine to do. When fund raising, you have to ask everybody you
know, and everybody you can think of for money. You have a business if I
am not mistaken, and I thought you might like the throwback I could
offer you for your donation (I ended up linking to your book anyway so
you know)...

While on the trail, I barely ever mentioned my cause, because I wasn't
really thinking about it most of the time, and there wasn't anything to
say about it anyway. I agree that asking for donations from other hikers
while on the trail is dumb. I don't agree that bugging you via email is
though.

-patch



yogi wrote:

>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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