Re: [pct-l] rewarding side trips

[Bighummel@aol.com]

I took a short side trip in the southern Sierra (by accidently taking the 
wrong trail) when I chanced upon a crew planting trees.  The "boss", a lovely 
women, had a contract with the USFS to replant a burned out area.  I stopped 
and accepted the job and planted trees with the Mexicans for three days.  
They thought I was crazy.  A guy with a backpack, hiking in the middle of 
nowhere, in between snow storms, stopping to plant trees for not much.   She 
paid me a small wage, fed me while I was there and filled my pack with food 
when I left.  

A good deal, a pleasant memory and a great experience, all by chance.  

Greg "Strider" Hummel
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