[at-l] LOTR

[nealb@midlandstech.com (William Neal)]

I have read that your apetite-stat is set on HIGH after a long distance
HIKE.  And (especially for MEN) it is hard to get it back in control.
Worse, men tend to gain the weight back quicker than women.  So a few weeks
after my first LD, I went into a local AYCE.  I kept going back for their
mooshrooms -- buttered and two kinds on the salad bar.  A couple who had
been watching and who I got to talking to kidded me that I must either be a
hobbit (which I was beginning to resemble) or a backpacker.

Hmmm...  I wonder if most backpackers have a hobbit gene in them somewhere.
William, The Turtle

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Davis [mailto:futabachan@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:53 PM
To: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [at-l] LOTR


> A)  Lord of the Rings is completely on topic, because they walk
> a LOT.

And through the mountains too.  And it took them six months to do it.

Does anyone with a copy of the _Atlas of Middle-Earth_ handy recall
just how far it was calculated that Frodo and Sam hiked to cast the
One Ring in the fires of Katahdruin?

> And hobbits eat like crazy, too.

"You do not realize your peril, my lord Theoden.  These thru-hikers
will sit on the edge of ruin and discuss the pleasures of the AYCE
buffet, or the small doings of the group of hikers they met three
shelters ago...."

Elen sila lumenn omentielvo,
 -- Raccoon --


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Susan Davis <futabachan@yahoo.com>

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