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[pct-l] Hiking for Charity
woah, woah, woah, this is getting a little crazy.
Junaid Dawud sent me a private email, to which I responded privately. Now both private emails are posted here to the list.
Junaid --- please understand that I do know that people who hike for charity do not keep the funds. I was not accusing you or anyone of anything underhanded. Once again, I think the problem with tone being unreadable has caused hurt on the list.
yogi
www.pcthandbook.com
Junaid Dawud <jdawud@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hey all,
Yogi, I will not be the recipient of a single penny.
My hike is MY HIKE, and I have been and will be paying
for all of it. My hope is that I can get some banks,
companies and organizations to make donations to
charity based on my hike. I'll let the PCTL know of
my plans with a short email and link. It will simply
be a heads up, not a request for anyone to give money
to me, or even the charity. just a heads up.
Apologies to all for cluttering your mailbox with this
somewhat redundant post.
---------junaid #41PCT2006
cage rattler and list lurker
(thats for you switchback)
--- yogi wrote:
> Many people are associated with charities which are
> close to their hearts. That's cool. It just
> bothers me when people solicit me (a hiker) for
> donations for their (also hikers) hikes. It's
> strange. I'm paying for my hike, now you want me to
> pay for your hike, too? I know, the funds don't go
> to the person's hike, but it sure seems too similar.
>
> Like I said, though, there are ways to combine
> hiking with financial support for your favorite
> organizations. Freefall and Happy Jo had great
> hikes PLUS raised a lot of money.
>
> yogi
>
>
>
>
>
> Junaid Dawud wrote:
> Hey Yogi,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Nice work on the handbook,
> its
> been quite useful in my planning.
>
> My desire to hike is the only motivation for my
> hike.
> The idea to hike for a charity came after reading
> part
> of a trailjournal from someone who had. As I just
> said to Can'tQuit, if hiking for a charity is going
> to
> detract from the experience at all, I won't do it.
>
> I agree with you about not soliciting other hikers.
> My idea is to get some local (Honolulu) businesses
> and
> such to donate.
>
> I basically want to have everything set up so that
> when I leave, I'm just hiking and updating my
> trailjournal periodically. Those who pledge, can
> follow my progress via my TJ and will be notified of
> my completion or (God I hope not) my dropping out.
> Then they can cut their checks and send them to the
> charity.
>
> Thanks again for everything, I hope to see you on
> the
> trail next year. Or at the KO at least.
>
> --------junaid
>
>
>
> --- 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 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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