[at-l] Future AT hiker...

[chance317@yahoo.com (Denise)]

--- DaRedhead@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/13/02 9:48:27 PM US Eastern Standard
> Time, 
> shane@theplacewithnoname.com writes:
> 
> 
> > Anyway, sorry for the rant...  If you want to know, my pack
> weighs 28-30 
> > pounds for summer, and 30-35 for spring/fall, and 30-45 for
> winter 
> > 
> 
> As far as I can figure, that's light weight :)
> 
> **We all do this for FUN, which is important to remember.**
> 
> That is the best summing up statement of all times, although
> it didn't come 
> at the end.  Hanging out at Kincora this weekend, a hiker
> turned to me, a 
> tired, hungry, worn out section hiker and said "Can you
> believe we do this on 
> VACATION?"  A thru hiker said - "Yea, well, can you believe I
> took a SIX 
> MONTH vacation and I'm spending it doing this??"  It's still
> hilarious to me. 

This made me smile, and reminded me of a cartoon I came across @
a week ago in an old New Yorker.  Two bedraggled hikers standing
there with their fully loaded backpacks, the "1,000 mile stare"
etched on their faces, and one says to the other, "I'm glad this
is a leisure activity, because you couldn't pay me to do this."
:)

Denise

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