[pct-l] pct-l spinoff list for trail conditions?

[calliger@infolane.com (R.J.Calliger)]

I second Christine's comments. "One trail, one list".

Rich


At 12:24 PM -0800 3/30/01, Christine Kudija wrote:
>This wouldn't detract from the main list at all (imho).  For us vicariously
>hiking this year, it just brings us that much closer to those of you who are
>hiking for real.  FWIW -
>
>Christine
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ken Kaplan" <kkaplan@isher.com>
>To: <jcryan@pocketmail.com>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:25 AM
>Subject: [pct-l] pct-l spinoff list for trail conditions?
>
>
>> I just got one of these pocketmail gadgets for the trail, partly because
>of the value of the kind of recon provided by Sassafras (below). Knowing at
>the right time about water availability, snow conditions, etc. could be
>awful nice, and it would be easier to communicate details via email than via
>the PCTA hotline.
>>
>> I wonder if there are enough of us digital trekkers to justify a pct-l
>spinoff list strictly for trail condition reports, so that we wouldn't have
>to download & dig through the main list for these pearls? It might be best
>to set up this trail conditions list at backcountry.net, to make it work
>just like the main list. But if the Keeper of the List (don't know who) is
>otherwise engaged, I could set it up as a topica.com list.
>>
>> Would anyone else find a PCT trail conditions mailing list useful? Would
>it detract from the main list?
>>
>>
>> > Hi everyone,
>> > Just completed this section and thought I'd send a few thoughts. Weather
>has been sunny in the 70s which still requires a bit of adjustment for this
>Northwesterner. Between Campo and Lake Morena, water flowing in creeklet
>just after San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railroad tracks and Hauser Creek
>also chortling. Only 2 dollars for a backpacker's site at the Lake Morena
>Campground. Friendly folks at the malt shop.
>> > Boulder Oaks campground closed but faucets flowing with various colors
>of water; I went with the clear kind. Plentyof water in Long Canyon.
>>
>> > Sassafras
>>
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