[at-l] Oldest Thru Hiker??

[bullard@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Bullard)]

Actually man/he/him/his are either masculine and non-gender specific in
meaning. Man/he being used when gender is unknown or unspecified. Him being
the objective case of he and his being the possessive case.
Woman/she/her/hers OTOH are always gender specific.

At 06:52 AM 4/12/2003 -0400, Bruce Calkins wrote:

>Because the "English" language lacks a non-gender specific pronoun?
>  ;-)
>Black Wolfe
>
>
>
> > HUMMINGBIRD! Why would you assume that the older thru-hiker would be
> > male?...
> >
> > Give Me Chocolate
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: athummingbird
> > To: greyowl@rcn.com; Marsha; AT-L Mail
> > Sent: 4/11/2003 8:29 PM
> > Subject: [at-l] Oldest Thru Hiker??
> >
> > Does anyone know who the oldest thru hiker on record is?  I know there
> > are a
> > few hikers over 80 who have completed the trail in sections.  But who is
> > the
> > oldest and when did he do it?