[at-l] Re: Re Technology on the trail

[David Hicks" <daveh@usit.net (David Hicks)]

Join the armed services and take survival training, if you want a dose of
learning just how little technology we need to survive out there.

Chainsaw


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Knight" <krk@speakeasy.org>
To: "AT-L" <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:00 AM
Subject: [at-l] Re: Re Technology on the trail


> I think we have the makings of the next AT-L event.
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Somewhere in the back country... A group of long
distance hikers and other
> back country enthusiests are spending two weeks in the woods as far from
any roads or shelters as
> they can get using nothing bbut the most basic technologies that were
available to people several
> dozen milenia ago. When a member was asked why they were doing this she
replied, "we are trying to
> determine just how little technology we need to survive out here."
SNIP