[pct-l] Hiking for Charity

[Tortoise73 at charter.net (Tortoise)]

"patch"

Most of us are on this list because we enjoy hiking/backpacking on the 
PCT and wish to discuss this with others.

IMO, it is wrong for someone to solicit donations on this list. 
Similarly advertising any product is wrong with the exception of simple 
announcements by a few gear makers that they have something new and an 
URL for more information.

Michael J. Lissner wrote:
> 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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