[pct-l] Re: teddy bears (was, Yogi is a suburbanite!!)

[shellycul at mindspring.com (Shelly Culbertson)]

This reminds me frighteningly of the parade we saw ascending Mt Whitney as we descended after completing the JMT on Sept 19.  Though the weather at the time was lovely, later that night in Lone Pine we woke to rain, which was snow at Trail Camp and above.  We saw many hikers ascending who hardly looked prepared for the best of conditions, let alone snow.  I was glad we finished when we did!

Shelly


Paul Magnanti <pmags@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Further down the trail, we started to see the parade
>of tourists. Looked much like Donna desrived.  Red
>faced, out of breath, almost always from the Mid-west.
>No food and water. (Above tree line at this point,
>too! Over 11k feet!). Many of them wore, I swear to
>god, Teddy Bear sweatshirts!  Deb and I now have a
>private joke of calling a *certain* type of tourist
>hikers (for, I am tourist hiker as well on my
>thru-hikes) "teddy bears".
>
>FURTHER down the trail was just plain dangerous.
>Mountian Dew in one hand, a Slim Jim in the other.
>Clouds on the summit (Thunderstorms!) and they were
>still heading up. The people were intent on going to
>the summit of Longs. If you know anything about
>Colorado in the summer, it tends to have T-storms in
>the afternoon. I politely told them they may want to
>turn around. Some listened, some did not. Many teddy
>bear hikers! :)