Re: [at-l] Companion vs Handbook...

["Coosa" <coosa@fox21.net>]

Yeah, because The Rules of Backpacking specifically state NO GUNS -- and
then there's no cell phones, no hotmailers, no radios, no cd-players, don't
be seen wearing earphones, no killing and/or eating shelter mice,  etc.  --
Coosa  (they're going to add No Hiking Poles because a) you can use them to
kill, b) you can use them as antennas and c) you can use them to skewer and
roast shelter-kill.

THIS IS SUPPOSED to make you laugh a little -- the subject affects us all,
however, there are ONLY 3000 of us a year and 3 MILLION Day Hikers out
there.  WE are the Choir -- would SOMEONE start preaching to the DAY
HIKERS??????   Please?!

-----Original Message-----

Lee I. Joe wrote: he killed it.
Lyle responded: I think a better term for it is "censor".


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From:          "Coosa" <coosa@fox21.net>
Date:          Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:10:07 -0500
Subject:       Re: [at-l] Flip Flopping
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I'm wondering if this is not more of a "personality type" thing -- you know
that introvert-extrovert etc stuff (Miller Analogy?)  Been too long since I
left a classroom.

I'm a Trail Angel and Section Hiker. besides being a Senior Blonde Redneck
(well, two out of three)  -- If anyone should "feel" ostracized by the
established community and the thruhikers, I would not hesitate to state that
I qualify.

However!  My personality (which I unabashedly credit to my mother, who
willingly accepts the credit) refuses to let any negative comments deter me
from being accepted by everyone.  I figure if someone doesn't "like" me,
it's because they're having a "bad-like" day (akin to a bad-hair day) and
that eventually they will at least tolerate me, which is the bottom rung of
total acceptance.

If I upset too many people, I easily apologize, and what do you do with
someone who is willing to do that?   You don't stay angry for long . . . .
do you?   Because I am sincere -- my apologies are totally heartfelt.  I
learn from my mistakes.

I am also a believer in laughter -- if you can't laugh with me, just laugh
at me.  Laughter is good for your health, so let me help you be healthy.

I said that to say this:   I am accepted by individual  Thru Hikers, the
Establishment, Day Hikers, the Trail Community, the local communities, the
tourists, the turons, the outsiders, the insiders, etc, ad nauseum ad
nauseum.

Why?  Because I am "Coosa" -- known just about all around the world as "The
Trail Angel in North Georgia" and known everywhere as "the (senior) lady who
makes me laugh" --

Point deux -- any hike is what you make it.  If it's a business trip, you
treat it as one, if it's a party, you treat it as one, if it's a search for
truth, you treat it as one, if it's solitude amid the masses, you treat it
as one.    My personality says: "Life's a party and I'm the guest of honor
and often the hostess as well!"

Hike yer own hike, live yer own life, enjoy, it's temporary, after all,
Coosa


-----Original Message-----


>Bpwildness@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 2/25/00 4:54:57 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
>> thewitt@fairchildsemi.com writes:
>>
>> << He said he never felt like he was a part of the trail community.

He just
>>  didn't seem to be having any fun, and would not open up to anyone
>>  at all - sort of like the way you treat weekenders; not wanting to
>>  make the emotional committment for just a night's talk.
>>   >>


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