Re: [at-l] visit to Neels Gap

["Ryan K. Brooks" <ryan@hack.net>]

Hey... I was at Neels Gap today!  Around 10AM or so as I recall.

-Ryan

hopefl@juno.com wrote:

> My wife and I had Friday off so we took a ride to see the North Georgia
> leaf colors. It was a most pleasant and beautiful day!
>
> While at Neels Gap, we met Grizzly Adams. He is going to try a north
> bound winter hike which he started earlier this week. We gave him all the
> encouragement we could, discussed gear, meals, what weather he might
> expect, guesstimates on when he'd get to where, etc.
>
> After he headed on towards his camp for tonight some non-hiker types ask
> where he was going and what he was doing. There were a few hikers about
> and it was explained the best we could. One of the non hikers just rolled
> his eyes and ask why Grizzly would do such a dumb thing. I offered that
> his hike was not so dumb. "Well, he going to miss 2 full terms at school"
> the non-hiker retorted. I mused that he had years enough in his life to
> get the 2 terms he might miss. The non hiker huffed, " suppose he
> (Grizzly ) doesn't have THAT many years left to live!" A lady hiker who
> had just joined the conversation answer very well I think. "Then he needs
> to be on the Trail and not in college."
> Hopeful
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