Re[2]: [at-l] Cell phone connection availability

[Bob Cummings <ellen@clinic.net> (Bob C.)]

"...I take it that currently there's no pressing environmental issues of concern
in your area?" questions Ron.

 On the contrary. We have several. Wind towers on Redington. Hut developments in
 the Bigelows. The need for buffers to protect the trail from intrusions of
 civilization. However, these matters produce almost no response from the list.

 Once something is posted and no one responds, I tend not to bore the list with
 repeated views. But if someone questions my thoughts, I tend to try to get them
 to understand.

You say, for instance, that you think I've made my  point "abundantly clear" on
cell phones in the backcountry, but you add that "I still don't understand how I
would be spoiling your 'wilderness' experience,' by carrying a cell phone."

As I said many days ago, how words are understood is influenced by culture and
knowledge of the receiver of those words. Wildness is such a foreign concept
these days (Shane thinks he can find it by lying in the grass in his backyard.
Rocky thinks it can be found, despite paper mill stench, by not going to town
very often) that I've begun to believe, "if you have to ask, you may never
understand."

Weary