[at-l] Falling Tree at Pine Grove Furnace (OT)

[TrailR at aol.com (TrailR@aol.com)]

In a message dated 6/8/2004 9:34:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
s.landis@comcast.net writes:

Intolerant? Guilty as charged.  I was saddened and moved when I  read the 
news of a young child being killed in his tent by a  falling tree.  
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As were we all, once we read it.

I  
have personally heard and felt the thud when the top a dead tree fell on  
the Trail minutes after I had passed.  
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I had one fall 10 seconds after a group of us passed it in Harriman  State 
park.

I hike,  my daughters hike, and in 
fact they probably spend more time sleeping  outside in tents than most 
during any given year.  In addition, this  happened in my community and 
in the larger "Trail" community so this hit  close to home.
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Right, and it will make everyone more careful for a while. As it  should.


I  posted a news item about this tragedy that can happen to any one of us 
as  a "Let's be careful out there message" and the first response was a  
whining missive from you about your preferences for navigating the  
internet. Yup, I'm intolerant of BS like  that.

Steve
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Since I didn't fill out the info, at the time of my reply I hadn't read the  
story.
2 thruhikers I hiked with had a tree fall at their feet,  and within  range 
of my tent 
and Wench's tent. Accidents happen, we were lucky, it missed all of  us. Is 
the 
story tragic? Yes. So was my nephew choking on a push pin and dying last  
year, 
and my mother dying of ALS. In the big scheme of things did your little  girl 
put 
down of my Internet choices make any points? Yes... And we all will judge  it 
in 
our own way & foster our own opinions.
You made a good point with the "be careful out there" message.  Too bad you 
felt
it necessary ruin it with smart comments. I won't comment any more on this.  
You 
can milk it if you want.
.
hotdog