[at-l] PA Ruck publicity

[wb4pan@mindspring.com (Chase Davidson)]

Oh yea,

	I think I forgot to say but. MrsGorp and I went by the Iron Masters
Hostel and said hello to Sean. We wanted to get away from the ATC
conference and took a short drive out there. The place looked real good.
Sean was his usual happy self. A few thru hikers were around. 
	Hey I finally got to go in that store. When I hiked the area I was too
early in the year. I saw a lot of signs like "open next week for the
season" same thing at Caledonia Park. Looking forward to playing with my
orienteering map of Pine Grove.

chase

kahley wrote:
> 
> At 08:22 PM 7/21/01 -0400, Steve Landis wrote:
> 
> >The P* R**k reference was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.  I was
> >acknowledging a previous post by Kahley (I think) who was not happy
> >about the publicity that the PA Ruck was getting on the ATC site.
> 
> Not unhappy...just a little nervous.
> And please don't let my angst get overblown.
> As to the crowding of the Ruck, for most people it hasn't
> been a problem (cept maybe for the showering issue <grin>).
> 
> I'm one of those people for whom 12 is a crowd!  But this years
> Ruck was much better than last years in that regard and I think a lot of
> that was due to the simpler format.  In '00, the auction and fundraising just
> had me a nervous wreck from the git go so it didn't take much to
> drive me outside.<yikes>.
> 
> This year was much better!  The good thing about the Mansion is that
> there are places to which to retreat if the noise level gets to you,
> including one of the best porches in the world! Of course the fact that
> the porch looks out on the AT has "nothing" to do with anything HAHA
> 
> And as to the food issue, to be honest, part of it has to do with
> money.  As I said,
> the Ruck kitty collected 42 and change which just isn't enough to feed people
> for a weekend.  Plus, there is other stuff to do so people don't want
> to commit to kitchen duty.  That's pretty easy to understand!  But it's not
> fair
> to the people like Navigator and Sweet Pea who take up the slack.  Jeeze...
> let's travel from Florida to Pa and spend the weekend in the kitchen...NOT <g>.
> 
> So you have a few people who bring more than their share and do more than
> their share and some who don't bring anything or help out.  Nothing new there,
> but it's still not fair so it seems the best thing to do is to let people
> be responsible
> more of their own food.  But if someone else wants to take on Saturday
> breakfast
> and lunch....go for it!!
> 
> There will still be the welcome pasta on Friday nite, and the pot luck
> supper on
> Saturday and Bear Bag's Blueberry Pancakes on Sun AM if ya get up in time.
> Doc cooks'em fast and when he's done, they're gone <g> and he and Sweet
> Pea are off to church.
> 
> As to the listing on the ATC and site, I say, let it stand.  This year
> people found
> the Ruck that way.  Jeff and Joyce as example.  He is a long haul trucker and
> drove straight thru from the west coast to join Joyce for the Ruck.  They were
> just so grateful for the opportunity to be there and learn.  They weren't
> on AT-L
> and didn't have the chance to ask questions whenever they wanted. And there
> was another guy, and I can't remember his name, but he just found us and
> showed up.  It was funny....I met him in the parking lot and proceeded to
> tell him how to register at the hostel or the campground.  He stammered around
> until he finally got it out that he was saving all his bucks for his thru
> and he was
> hoping to join the parking lot people!  He's still on the Trail as is Jeff,
> Joyce had
> to take some time off for medical reasons but she'll be back on the Trail
> with Jeff
> soon!  At least three people who used the Ruck for it's "traditional"
> purpose <grin> who
> wouldn't have found us without the ATC.  I'm not trying to overblow the Ruck...
> people have been thruing long before it was conceived.  But, if we're about
> sharing info and validating the desire to thru, I can't see cutting off a
> way for folks to
> find it.
> 
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