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[at-l] Yet Another Lister Bio
Do you live in Ohio? Have we meet?
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Leitschuh <janl2@mindspring.com>
To: AT-List <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: [at-l] Yet Another Lister Bio
> Johnny-Come Lately Here. I'm likely the last to offer one, but here
> goes...
>
> Name: Jan Leitschuh (say "Light" and shoe")
>
> Trail Name: None yet, tho LighShoe, HoofHead and Hoofer have been
> ventured. Hoofhead?!!! Come on!
> Dunno, nothing sings yet... it will arrive in its own time, if meant to
> be.
>
> Home: The charming NC central Sandhills town of Southern Pines, sister
> city to the resort town of Pinehurst.
>
> Born:
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin (yes, a real cheesehead, tho we didn't call
> ourselves that before I left that cold country in 1980). Been in the
> South ever since. Love the South! Miss good bread though real Southern
> biscuits make up for alot.
>
> Age: Exactly 37 and ten years!
>
> Married: Nyet!
>
> Children:
> Two stepchildren, who I raised for seven years after their mother died.
> Great, amazing kids. Sadie just entered the film program at Hollins in
> Virginia, and Paulie, who will turn 16 this fall, allowed me to
> introduce him to the AT this June - he proved to be a superhiker as we
> traveled up Roan MT and the Humps, all the way to Laurel Fork Falls. He
> did way better on the dreaded 19E than me!
>
> Occupation:
> Will do anything for a buck. However, list horse trainer and riding
> instructor as primary occupations. Also write, (former reporter and
> feature writer for the News and Observer, now freelance and do a monthly
> column for a horsemanship magazine).
>
> Military: Well, I live next to Fort Bragg... does that count?
>
> Hobbies:
> Fun!!! Love making mischief. That probably underlies all I do.
> Backpacking is the latest obsession in a wide range of interests. Have
> always loved camping and hiking, just now getting around to combining
> the two. Love plant ID, love all water, love to swim, float and canoe.
> (Canoed a few rivers this fall, but apparently suck at the rock-avoiding
> aspect. It's a gas tho)! Love to travel!
> Of course horses, but that is Biz too... all animals attract. Work MAO
> doing horses, all that will come to a grinding halt when I thru in 2003.
> Write quite a bit, love to read (could spend my life catching up on my
> wish list), am a moviebug, would love one day to build my own stone
> cabin or maybe straw bale cottage but remain in bafflement as to how one
> actually does that sort of thing (being the non-technical,
> procrastinating kind).
> Gardening is pleasant diversion and grounds me, so to speak. Sunshine
> on my shoulders makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes makes me cry...
> Want to retire wealthy! Now! Too much fun to be had!
>
> Last books read:
> Hmmm, I read about five at once, all laying about in various stages
> "un-read-ness..."
> Prolly "The Red Tent," "The Hills of Tuscanny" (by Ferenc Mate), and
> "The Power of Now," an amazing book by a German, Echarkt Tolle.
> If you haven't read it but just seen the movie, I'll bet the book
> "Little Big Man" would resonate with most on this list. Really fine
> read, can't put it down. Way better than an already good movie, still
> holds it own in these trying times. Just reread that.
>
> First time on the AT:
> By accident, in 1984, on a horse. near Mt Rogers. It was a horror story
> as I struggled thru leg-snapping boulders to turn my nervous beast back
> onto the blue blazed equine trail and solid ground. A whole-hearted
> supporter here of separate trails for human and equine...
>
> First time I realized I was on the AT:
> The first deliberate attempt was this spring, from I-40 near Mt. Moma's
> to Hot Spring. A miraculous trip in a snowstorm. Freezing! Up Snowbird,
> over Max Patch in a screaming, pack-cover-tearing wind. I could barely
> stand upright... My gawd, it was epic. Awesome. Been out for three more
> week-long trips since, from GA to VA.
>
> Favorite soft beverage: Chocolate milk (hey, from the Dairy State...)
>
> Favorite hard beverage:
> In summer, a real limey margarita. In winter, love to curl up on the
> couch after work with a good Spanish cream sherry and Goldfish
> crackers...
>
> Portions of AT covered:
> Lots of Georgia, thanks to Pittburgh and the Stop-Smoking hike. Parts of
> NC/TN and VA. Next July, all of Maine (except saving Mt. K for my thru
> in 2003).
>
> Other Trails hiked: Hmm, does it count if you ride them on a horse? I
> have packed mules thru the Bob Marshall and seen the amazing Chinese
> Wall, ate trout caught in icy crystal pools. Also canoed the Boundary
> Waters the Canadian Border. Just discovered that there's an Ice Age
> Trail in Wisconsin, follows the beautiful glacial formations in the
> state - would like to do that one day. Went over Niagra Falls in a
> barrel. Actually, that's a lie, it was a canoe...
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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