[at-l] RE"Policing the Trail

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 08:57 PM 5/22/2005 -0400, J. Lynch wrote:
>A park ranger told me once that when you working on the trails to always 
>wear identifying shirts, patches and/or identify yourself to passersby as 
>a 'maintainer'.  For just the reason that ox97 observes.
>
>ox97game@aol.com wrote:
>
>>Coming from a different perspective.  (not mine of course)
>>  The idiot sees a maintainer in the woods with a chainsaw, doesnt know 
>> they are a maintainer (nor does he care), and decides that since it is 
>> ok for the other person to have one, it must be ok for him to have one 
>> in the wilderness too.

I have maintained a shelter for 12 years (not counting this year) and there 
are no maintainer tee shirts unless we make our own. There is a patch you 
can sew to your pack but they don't give you one until you have completed a 
full season.