[at-l] homemade snowshoes

[sloetoe@yahoo.com (Sloetoe)]

--- Jim and/or Ginny Owen <spiriteagle99@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Pat Villeneuve wrote:
> >Does anyone rememer the story? Some years ago (well, within the last
10,
> >I think), there was a terrible blizzard in Va-jan-ya. A hiker was known
> >to be lost, snowbound for days. When rescuers finally made it in, they
> >discovered that he had broken into a cabin and made snowshoes from what
> >he could find there.
> >
> >Sound familiar at all?...
> >Give Me Chocolate

### It was February, 1977, and my first time on the AT. It was in
Connecticut, and we ended up in Housatonic Meadows State Park. Two months
later, the judge listens to Prosecutor's motion to dismiss, leans forward
from onnnnnn highhhhhh, stares down at my buddy and me, all eyebrows and
darkness, and says "You meannnn to tellll meeeeee that youboyz were just
out gettin' sum fresh-shairrrr?" [meekly "yessir"]. BOOM! "Case
dismissed!"

(My answer to the Arlo-question "Havye evrr bin arrested?")

Sloetoe

> Pat -
> We know the cabin, we know the thruhiker - and it's a true story.  But
> the rangers still don't know who it was - no one ever told them, so it's
> become a legend (mystery?) in the Park  :-) 
> Walk softly, Jim

### Warn't there. Can't prove I wuz.

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Spatior, Nitor, Nitor, In Nitor!

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