[at-l] Sad news, Patch AT '99

> Yogi '99 has posted this note on another forum tonight:
>
> I have some sad news for fellow 1999 AT hikers.  This morning, Gus
> Berndt---Patch '99---was hit by a bus and killed in Breckenridge, CO.
> Apparently, the bus went out of control and up onto the sidewalk, where
Patch
> was walking.
>
> After finishing the AT in September 1999, Patch moved to Hawaii for
several
> months, and then spent the summer in Boston.  Patch just moved to
> Breckenridge about 2 months ago.  Although he had never snowboarded
before,
> he dreamed of being a snowboard instructor.  He bought a board, pracitced,
> and was hired as an instructor.  He had planned to save money this winter
and
> then hike the PCT in 2001.
>
> YOGI '99
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