[pct-l] Hiking for Charity

[jdawud at yahoo.com (Junaid Dawud)]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for all the feedback so far.

Tortoise:  Yogi said that she doesn't think asking
hikers for donations is cool.  I mostly agree.  I
won't be asking my fellow hikers for donations on the
trail.  However, once I have my stuff set up, I will
post some info about it to the PCTL.  It will be a
short blurb and a link.  That will be the end of it as
far as any PCTers are concerned (unless they decide to
open the link).  The charity fund raising is a
'homefront' activity, once I hit the trail, I'll be
focused on my hike.  

------junaid


--- Tortoise <Tortoise73@charter.net> wrote:

> "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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