[at-l] Free gear donated by hikers who did not Tuckerize

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

Losing something is totally different from casting it aside.  The cast offs
don't want to be found by the person who left them.  The lost things are
actively sought after.  For instance, I've seen underwear hanging from
branches along the trail, not by a shelter or tent site, but along the
trail.  They were laundry that had been snagged off as the hiker went along.
Lost items, not cast offs.  Tents set up and deserted are cast offs.  I did
know one girl, though, who went on her first hiking trip into the Sipsey
Wilderness (AL) with a group.  She just couldn't take it.  She climbed over
a deadfall, turtled, unhitched the pack, and left it right there.  She
marched back to the parking lot, and the rest of the group carried her stuff
out.  anklebear

----- Original Message -----
From: Clark Wright <icw39@ncfreedom.net>
To: Leslie Booher <lwbooher@halifax.com>
Cc: <PMAnderson@apshealthcare.com>; <Jack.Bulkley@sas.com>;
<at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Free gear donated by hikers who did not Tuckerize


> While this is generally true, in the space of my first week, we ran
> across a perfectly good fleece jacket [eventually found the owner], a
> perfectly good fuel bottle full of white gas [left in the next shelter
> with a note], a perfectly good white gas, peak 1 stove [ditto], and
> several items that clearly had just fallen out of the pack of someone in
> front of us [reunited with the owner later that day].  Later on, in the
> SNP I found a nice camera [which I left with a park ranger in SNP],
> water bottles, ground cloth, etc.  My favorite item was the partially
> complete pack of unused condoms that was in the same case as the SNP
> camera - boy, did I wonder what might be on the partly used (ahem) roll
> of film in that camera as I handed it over to the SNP park ranger for
> their lost and found! :)
>
> thru-thinker
>
> Leslie Booher wrote:
> >
> > Also, the stuff that's cast aside is done so because it was too heavy,
not
> > the right thing, whatever.  My point is that, if it didn't work for
them, it
> > won't work for you.  They're not tossing aside the GOOD stuff.  <G>
When I
> > hiked through GA, there were several of those orange pup tents from
Wal-Mart
> > or like set up and left there by people who hated them right off.  No
one
> > else needed them, either.  anklebear
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <PMAnderson@apshealthcare.com>
> > To: <Jack.Bulkley@sas.com>; <at-l@backcountry.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:49 PM
> > Subject: RE: [at-l] Free gear donated by hikers who did not Tuckerize
> >
> > > thats kinda along the lines of a folk legend now.  May have been more
true
> > > years ago - but not so much these last couple years.  More people are
> > > hiking, but more are researching ahead of time as well & have less to
get
> > > rid of.  Plus more are LNT conscious and wait to Neels Gap or Suches
to
> > toss
> > > their stuff.  Heavy food & large fuel containers are often left at the
> > first
> > > few shelters.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jack Bulkley [mailto:Jack.Bulkley@sas.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:33 PM
> > > To: 'AT- L Mailing List (E-mail)'
> > > Subject: [at-l] Free gear donated by hikers who did not Tuckerize
> > >
> > >
> > > I was talking to an employee of the local REI who did a thru-hike last
> > year.
> > > He was saying you could pickup a lot of brand new free gear by hiking
the
> > > approach trail to Springer and the first few miles in March. Has
anyone on
> > > the list ever tried this? I am going to be in Georgia the last weekend
in
> > > March for a family hike of the Pine Mountain Trail. I doubt we will
> > actually
> > > go to Springer, but it is an intriguing idea.
> > >
> > > Jack Bulkley
> > > Jack.Bulkley@sas.com
> > > Apex, NC
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