[at-l] begin again, begin again

[spiriteagle99@hotmail.com (Jim and/or Ginny Owen)]

Delita - congratulations on your walking.  What's the URL for the walking 
list?  I'd be interested.  Since Jim's neuroma isn't getting any better, 
we've done little walking since we got off the trail, and it's driving me 
crazy.  I walk at noon, and we do short walks on the local bike path or 
Billy Goat Trail (short but intense over the rocks near Great Falls) or 
along the Northwest Branch (longer, but flat), but it isn't the same as real 
hiking.  This weekend was the first time we got into the mountains since we 
left Washington.  We did a short hike in the Shenandoahs, up the Buck Ridge 
Trail and down the Buck Hollow Trail.  It is a good training type hike, 
steep as the Stecoahs — a good lesson in humility.  Despite the cold gray 
day, the ice on the trail, and the burned forest around us, we were utterly 
happy — back in the mountains again.  We didn't see a single person, and 
heard only the sweep of a crow's wings overhead, the rustle of leaves 
underfoot, and the babbling of the stream down the hollow.  It isn't often 
that we drive longer than we walk (5 hours to and fro for a 3 hour hike), 
but we needed it so much —
Ginny
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