[pct-l] 6th ADZPCTKO

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

Three weeks and counting.  The organizers of the ADZPCTKO are putting 
together the logistics to throw another great gathering.  The website at 
www.pct77.org/adz has all of the details that you need to know.  

We will be distributing the campsites to share in the next few days.  

A few requests;

- Ice and ice chests for putting the mountain of drinks on ice

- Propane stoves - barbecues.  The more cooking surfaces we have the faster 
food can be prepared for 350 to 400 people!

- Coffee pots - makers

- Friday night is a potluck this year - dinner will NOT be provided (nor is 
breakfast Saturday morning).  Bring a dish to feed 15 or 20 and share it, or 
count on eating at one of the little restaurants around Lake Morena and Campo.

- Deserts for Saturday dinner

- Fruit - watermelons, etc.

- Donations of money - check the website for details.  Your donations not 
only provide the food, drinks and campsites, but also contribute to our host, 
Lake Morena Campground, and last year contributed several hundred dollars to the 
"Trail Gorillas" to help them in maintaining the trail.  

- Donations of gear - we'll be holding a silent auction - if you have some 
gear that is new or in good shape, that is unique or highly desireable, 
please 
consider donating it.  Books, maps and clothing too!  We already have some 
great items to auction from some of the long distance hiking communities 
finest 
vendors.  Remember, though, if it can't be carried out in a thru-hiker's pack 
then you are excluding our guests from enjoying the fruits of this event.  
Keep it focused! 

- Consider helping out the trail and join the maintenance crew going out each 
day from Thursday to Sunday.  And telll them THANK YOU for all the incredible 
hard work they do, voluntarily FOR YOU!

- Start thinking about your innovative, creative, unique and downright stupid 
entries to the gear contest "AGPLDHG&IR".   Do you know what these rediculous 
initials stand for?

- Thru and section hikers - consider entering your "hiking strategy", that is 
your base pack, clothing and strategy for utilizing it to the maximum 
efficiency, into the G-Force Contest.  This is judged by Glen Van Peski or 
GVP Gear 
and Read Miller and you can bet that they get really anal about those 
fractions 
of a gram!

Rides to the border will be offered every morning, as well as other points to 
the north or south for day hiking, so get your maps out and plan a great 
dayhike in the area.  One pair may need a ride back to the kickoff from Mt. 
Laguna on Friday evening or early Saturday AM.

We're looking forward to meeting all of the class of '04, are jealous as 
hell, and also looking forward to getting together with all of you, that have 
come 
year and again, to become known as the PCT Community.

Be sure to thank all of the organizers when your there, too.  
- Donna Saufley is providing all of the drinks (stepping up to take the 
reigns from Jeff Bohannon, who is hiking the AT this year)
- Bob Riess "the ADZ Food Dude" will be providing all of the food and 
directing the preparation of it (and, of course, personally brings out about 
half of all of the thruhikers each year to Campo)
- Carl Siechert is the great, wise, and harried webmaster
- Terry Thompson will be providing all of the eating and serving utensils
- Jason "Squeak" Cramer will be running the gear contest again (just before 
he starts out on his own PCT thru-hike attempt)
- Charlie Jones directs and mans the water cache on the San Felipe Hills.  
- Christina Kudija makes all of the name tags
- Jim and Anne Reidman man the water cache at Scissors Crossing and Lucky 5 
(along with others) and provide some great and monstrous salads
- The Rangers at Lake Morena have graciously hosted our astronomically 
growing gathering and made the events great by being flexible and 
accomodating.  
Show your appreciation directly and by following their simple rules of the 
park.
- AsABat provides a water and trail conditions website and manages any 
emergencies that we may have to deal with (like the lost hiker two years ago!)
- and the other ten or twenty people who have stepped up to help with the 
silent auction, the t-shirt sales, food preparation, serving and clean-up!

It is these people and YOU that make the ADZPCTKO what it has become.  

See ya' at Lake Morena!  Remember, no fires this year.

Greg "Strider" Hummel
ADZPCTKO Coordinator

"Give me my Scallop shell of quiet,
My staffe of Faith to walke upon,
My Scrip of Joy, Immortall diet,
My bottle of salvation:
My Gowne of Glory, hopes true gage,
And thus Ile take my pilgrimage."
                  Sir Walter Raliegh, The Pilgrimage (1604)