Maybe this guy has something to do with all the crap being left for UDA's making the trek from Mexico across the Southern Arizona desert.  You know, the thousands of empty gallon jugs now littering the desert, along with junk food wrappers and fast-food stuff.  Gah.
 
Brian
Team A.I.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: RAND HARDIN
To: AZ-Geocaching
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Sounds like Litter to Me

I wonder if this "trail angel" uses waypoints to mark where his "trail magic" caches are located?  Is there a double standard here?  It'll be interesting to see if now that this information has been released, if the National Park Service confiscates these caches too!  If not! then I see no reason why geocachers couldn't place geocaches along the trail every few miles.  We could put our own provisions (Band-Aids, games, puzzles, batteries, etc.) in the caches.  The follow-up story could be titled: "GEOANGELS through and through."
 
Rand
(RandMan) 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Team Tierra Buena
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:26 PM
To: Arizona Geocaching
Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Sounds like Litter to Me
 
Does the National Park Service confiscate this stuff, too?
"From Springer Mountain in Georgia to Maine's Mount Katahdin, Pegg
enjoys a rock star's renown. The 59-year-old retired prison guard ... is
a "trail angel."
"During the nine-month hiking season, he distributes "trail magic" -
free water, food, and other goodies - just about every day to
through-hikers traversing New Jersey as they attempt to walk the entire
2,172-mile Appalachian Trail.
"He sweeps out trail-side shelters and leaves behind cookies, hard
candy, foot powder, Advil, and Band-Aids.
"He fills gallon jugs with water and leaves them on stretches of the
trail where water is otherwise hard to come by.
-Bob Ivry, "An angel through and through," The Record (Bergen County,
New Jersey), August 21, 2003
Steve
Team Tierra Buena