Re[2]: [at-l] stealing

[daveh@psknet.com (Dave Hicks)]

Looks as if we are on the same page.

Chainsaw

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Cummings <ellen@clinic.net>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [at-l] stealing


> "Weary, what would you
> do, were you to check a MATC shelter and find a notebook with a "please
send
> to address" rather than the "official" MATC shelter register?"
>
> What we do, compared with what we are supposed to do, is not always the
same thing. I've left
> registers in shelters with a note to send them to me when full. No one
ever did. Then I discovered
> that the policy in Maine, at least, is for registers to be owned by MATC.
>
> Our maintainers are told -- or are supposed to be told -- to remove
everything left in a shelter
> that is not placed there by MATC.
>
> So I would remove the offending register and replace it with an official
register. But I probably
> would not do it until the season ends because I know how hikers depend on
information in registers for
> communication.
>
> That's also why whoever was taking the registers a couple of years ago in
Maine and New Hampshire and
> perhaps elsewhere should be condemned. Registers serve a useful purpose
for other hikers and as
> feedback to the maintaining clubs. Whoever took the registers was
performing an unethical act either
> through greed, ignorance, dishonesty or maybe all three.
>
> Weary
>
>
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