Re: [at-l] Happy New Year!

["Cora Drake" <cora_drake@hotmail.com>]

Took me and my new boots (and all my excess body fat) on a New Years Day AT 
hike from Route 9 (Keyes Gap) down across the Potomac and up into Harpers 
Ferry.  Then I had to hike back.  Had a lovely sunset.  After that it got 
dark.  Slows ya down, some, darkness does.

Got (gratefully!) back to the car and did some stuff with my map that I 
should have done at the other end of the outing:  a 12.5-mile round trip is 
probably excessive for a senior blonde fat lady's afternoon hike.

Certainly, two days later, that's the concensus of the joints and muscles. 
(Definitely including those that employed the poles.)

Now my second pair of boots has had the same intro to the Trail my first 
ones had.  It was real interesting to wander along remembering my excitement 
at those first, experimental walks on the AT.  Wore sneakers and a sundress 
for the first one!  May 1997.  Didn't take water or a jacket until about my 
third try.  Just my native stupidity and the thrill of the unknown.  I did 
that six-mile stretch of not particularly challenging Trail in four separate 
day hikes, back then.  May I never pooh pooh anyone else's first steps!

Just Playin' (Foolish) Jane

cc:  Mike the Engineer '95 (because it's Monday)

>From: Nina Baxley <infpeace@yahoo.com>
>To: at-l@backcountry.net
>Subject: [at-l] Happy New Year!
>Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:02:56 -0800 (PST)
>
>Happy New Year, everyone! I know it's a little
>belated, but I just got back from my big Y2K weekend.
>I joined a team of 13 climbers (OK, 13 hikers), two
>sherpas (OK, two kids), and a yak (OK, a dog) on an
>assault of Driskill Mountain, the highest point in
>Louisiana at 535 feet. We also went on a day hike on
>the 31st and hiked on New Years Day. What better way
>to spend the new year?! New Years Eve was spent
>sitting in front of a campfire, roasting marshmellows,
>drinking hot chocolate, reminiscing over Monty Python
>movies, and singing "I was drunk the day my momma got
>out of prison ..." at the top of our lungs.
>
>OK, so we were drinking *more* than just hot
>chocolate! :)
>
>All and all, it was a mighty nice Y2K weekend. I hope
>all my lister friends had a good weekend as well. 2000
>is going to be a great year!!
>
>Nina
>171 more days!
>
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