[pct-l] purity

[whitethunder10 at hotmail.com (Joseph Niemiec)]

Side note on this topic:
I think the best part about hiking the trail is that we can all do whatever 
we want when we are on it.  We are just those type of people.  Use the lists 
and tabulations for something else...  If someone wants to say they hiked 
the PCT and it wasn't the entire thing, I'm with them - they hiked the PCT.  
It seems that off trail life tries to bound us and hold us.  But when it 
comes to the trail, I say "stay off my heels!"

Of course those that want to say something about what they did, like "I 
yo-yo'ed"  or "I hiked the entire thing" can go ahead.  But leave those 
alone who don;t care to worry about it - becuase it really doesn't matter.  
And if the reason is for building a history, well, wouldn't that be could if 
it remained a mystery?  Then we can have the pyramids, haunted houses, 
stories, and the PCT... You know?

when it comes to thru-hiking - leave it alone!

Mouse


>From: Slyatpct@aol.com
>To: patch@aidshike.org, pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] purity
>Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:21:06 EST
>
>In a message dated 2/3/2006 3:05:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>patch@aidshike.org writes:
>
> > like a "completionist" or "100%-ist" or something, though that
> > would make everybody else a non-completionist...that doesn't
> > work...maybe an "obsessivist?" No, that term doesn't really work either,
> > cause not all "purists" are actually obsessed. Huh. Perhaps the best way
> > to say it is, somebody who'd rather not skip trail along the way.
> >
>
>I'd say all "purists" are obsessed, especially the ones that follow the
>official trail instead of the Eagle Creek Trail or the Crater Lake Rim 
>Trail.
>
>Is the latter considered official "PCT hiker trail" now?
>
>Sly
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