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[pct-l] Hiking for Charity
Hey Junaid,
Brian and I are also planning to hike to raise money for a charity.....in addition to hiking for the simple love of it. I see it as a perfect opportunity to raise money for a good cause. I have no intention of soliciting money from fellow hikers. Good luck with your planning - maybe we can help each other out in the process of figuring it all out.
jackalope (lil' j)
Junaid Dawud <jdawud@yahoo.com> wrote:
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 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 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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