by Pops » Mon 28 Apr 2008, 16:31:16
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RedStateGreen', 'I')'ve been a backpacker for decades. Great fun, and good exercise!

I walked lots of the Sierras back in the day - Desolation Valley, around Tuolumne Meadows, down by Sequoia Park and over at Henry Coe on the west side of the Central Valley. I have topo's from north of Tahoe to south of Yosemite and from 395 on the east to around 3k ft. on the west, all rolled up in a length of ABS pipe somewhere - it used to paper my bedroom.
Freeze dried and fancy packed stuff is great when one has lots of disposable income to indulge their hobby.
Perhaps not so good without the income and when the hobby is simply getting by.
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)