FW: [pct-l] Forests to Close Until Rainfall

[shutterbugg313 at yahoo.com (Shutterbug steiner)]

IF the forest does completely shut down and IF you do
believe in civil disobedience and IF the last few
years of closures are enforced the same way it should
not impede SCOTT ----- they only enforced at the
trailheads and none of the back country.  Just be
careful at the trailheads and his path should not be
impeded.


Duane

PAVEMENT is VIOLENT

--- Monty Tam <metam01@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> Hi Donna and Jeff..............and all
> 
> One more little blurb on Scott Williamson.  I saw he
> signed a register on
> the trail a few miles south of Crater Lake on, I
> think, 9/1.  I must have
> been off the trail in Ashland when we should have
> crossed paths.  Another
> south bounder, name starts with an "S"(Savanna or
> something like that)
> signed it about the 7th, I think.
> Monty Tam
> Warner Springs
> metam01@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <dsaufley@sprynet.com>
> > To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> > Date: 9/26/04 9:56:02 AM
> > Subject: [pct-l] Forests to Close Until Rainfall
> >
> > The National Forests (all of them in So. Cal) will
> close at midnight
> tonight.  Interestingly, the word is a "state of
> emergency" is being
> declared in the Forests, which if true would be
> unprecedented when there
> are no major fires occurring (to the best of my
> knowledge anyway,
> corrections welcome).  Residents in the San Gabriel
> Nat'l are being evicted
> and businesses will close, which poses for some a
> devastating hardship. 
> IMHO, counties in Florida are in a "state of
> emergency."  So. Cal forests
> are in a "precarious position."  But then, I digress
> from my self-imposed
> policy of not opining.  
> >
> > On a related topic, Scott Williamson is on his way
> South, having reached
> the Canadian border on 8/9, and stands a very good
> chance of making it
> through the Sierras if good weather prevails.  In
> his last note he
> indicated he was in Cascade Locks on 8/23 and
> anticipated being in the
> Sierras in early October, and here in Agua Dulce
> toward the end of the
> month.  Should the planets and the weather finally
> align for Scott's first
> ever yo-yo of the PCT, having hiked over 4,500 miles
> to reach the affected
> forests, what a shame it would be if arbitrary
> government policies stop him
> from this monumental accomplishment.  
> >
> > Scott mentioned passing three other south
> bounders.  For the last two
> years, and it looks like this one may be a third,
> south bounders have not
> been able to complete the PCT due to forest
> closures.  I for one would like
> a pro-rated refund on my Nat'l Forest passes, which
> I have purchased for
> years without complaint.  
> >
> > There is a silver lining in all of this though. 
> The forests are closing
> just as hunting season opened for another year. 
> Rack one up for the
> critters.
> >
> > -=Donna Saufley=-
> >
> >
> >
> >
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