[at-l] Honest disagreement

[DTimm65344@aol.com (DTimm65344@aol.com)]

In a message dated 04/17/02 10:40:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
greyowl@rcn.com writes:


> Hi all,
> 
> Ryan said no flames, but he did not say anything about honest disagreement. 
>  I think that we are all mature enough not to have a discussion degenerate 
> to a name calling contest. Yes this is a preamble to a slack pack post that 
> follows.
> 
> Grey Owl
> 

Grey Owl -

I agree.  I was unsure of where it might launch things, so I sent a post to 
Shane to pass to Bob about my thoughts on slackpacking without copying the 
list.  Since we are all being adults these days, I should have known better 
and sent it to everybody.

It said basically that I see a place for backpacking and slackpacking, as I 
did in March.  If you've popped muscles such that the pack thing is risky for 
further self-injury, but you've driven 15 hours to hike for a week, you slack 
so you can walk in the woods (or at least I did).  And it worked out great 
for a backup plan - got half the hike done in half the time planned.

I don't normally plan slacks (except for one day on the upcoming hike with my 
brother in May in NC because he figures I'll grind him into dust otherwise 
with the miles I want to try and achieve).  They can be expensive and 
constraining (the one in May won't be as we have two cars to play with).  But 
sometimes (when you really want to walk) they come in handy.

Hike happy -

Black&blue



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