[at-l] why aren't hikers like this?

[icw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Clark Wright)]

these posts capture my crazed sentiments exactly - kinda like the time I
took my beat up trooper and video camera out into the middle of
hurricane bertha as she came ashore here in new bern in 1996 - that's
one of my favorite "windy" memories - along with the time it got below
zero at naked ground in joyce kilmer memorial forest with about 40 mph
winds to boot . . . that night I hung my trusty olympus OM-1 camera by
its plastic strap on a tree limb and woke the next morning to see a
permanent crimp in the strap - one that remains to this day . . . the
only thing I can figure is that the cold deformed the plastic [and
perhaps my brain!]! :)

thru-thinker

Slyatpct@aol.com wrote:

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> LOL....
>
> I don't know what it is, but I just love the challenge, nasty weather poses.
> I remember a similar experience going over Mt Moosilauke, my first time above
> treeline, in ages, in a complete whiteout (fog).  You had to trust youself to
> hike far enough in order to see the next cairn and the wind was howling.  All
> of a sudden and out of the mist comes a southbounder.  We both burst out
> laughing, at nothing in particular, each remarking at what an awesome day it
> was, and wished each other the best.
>
> Sly
>
>
> In a message dated 2/5/2003 2:47:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> sloetoe@yahoo.com writes:
>
>
>>In '79, when I was crossing the top of some name-un-remembered
>>Maine bald in the middle of Hurricane David, all turtled up in
>>my baby-blue GoreTex shell, pack cover lashed completely 'round
>>pack, beard attempting to wriggle out of the parka's tightly
>>battened hood, I came across a southbounder so similarly
>>esconced he could have been my mirror image. Now, by this point
>>in the trip, I am thoroughly nutz-in-love with the whole deal,
>>even and especially including the day's ridiculous weather (50'
>>visibility; torrents of rain; winds gusting 30-50mph), so that I
>>am running through the valleys so that I can get back up in the
>>"thin" stuff to have the weather buff me up again. But I thought
>>I was the only one like this.... (This was '79, folks. Not a lot
>>of other hikers around with whom to socialize.)
>>
>>But as I'm bopping across the tops of this high nub, I turn a
>>grey corner and into view floats my SOBO doppelganger twin. We
>>approach, stand nearly boot to boot and cheek-by-jowl, and I
>>notice he's got the same shit-eatin' bearded grin pasted on his
>>face as I had on mine. I scream into his ear "Nice weather we're
>>having, ain't it?" He responds with a laugh, then yells "Yup!
>>Sure is! Can't beat it for refreshment." "Yep!" I says, "Happy
>>Trails!" and we parted ways with a wave and a laugh that was
>>swallowed by the roar of the wind.
>>
>
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