[pct-l] Re: The Trail Con

[Tortoise73 at charter.net (Tortoise)]

"real life" is not really that much different than "trail life".

there are good people around willing and helping others;
there are cons (although probably very few)
and also the bad ones.

I work on changing the world with every little bit i do --
whether it is helping some one out;
picking up some litter; or
spreading some knowledge.

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Tortoise

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Chance Money wrote:
> I had not thought of it like that. The usually problem is that people
> want to help but provide the wrong kinds of help. Yogiing is more
> like directing the help they want to give in a way that suits
> everyone involved. In the form of bingo it is just a fun pastime. I
> keep forgetting that we currently live in a violent world full of
> people. On the trail it changes. Goodwill is possible and fun is the
> goal.
> 
> Chance
> 
> Hiker97@aol.com wrote:     chancepctcdt@yahoo.com  writes: What we
> really need is an application of Ent's idea (PCT 2003) of Yogi Bingo.
> This    would be the activity of getting non thru hikers to give us
> stuff without    directly asking for it. Yogied items might include:
> energy bars / candy bars /    common hiker foods / water / rides at
> trail heads / information of various    kinds / etc.
> --------------------------------------------------------- Actually,
> that is a better idea.  Remember the movie the Sting with  Paul
> Newman and Robert Redford?  That was cool how they had all these
> different kinds of cons.  That is right up Trail Pirate and Camp
> Ruffian  alley.  We would only use the term "con" among ourselves.
> We would  say to the Greenhorns and non hikers that it is just an
> opportunity for others  to provide some charitable Trail Angel
> support.  An opportunity for others  to feel good about themselves
> for helping others in need.   Coooool...........taking advantaged of
> good natured people, who do not know they  have been had.  "Yes, I
> Yogied a bunch of folks in the last trail  town.  I cleaned them out.
> You might as well skip ahead to the next  resupply."
> 
> I see a whole new aspect of the  trail con opening up for me.  I can
> look pretty forlorn and down trodden  when I want to.  Of course,
> most of the time when I am out on the trail or  in town it is not an
> act.
> 
> Then again, all the above is a  con for you from me.   :-)
> 
> Your hiking buddy,  Switchback Trail Husker & Camp  3-Card Monte
> Expert
> 
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