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[at-l] Still out here!



At 02:38 PM 11/15/2004 -0500, RoksnRoots@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 11/15/2004 1:59:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>kellyswhitman@hotmail.com writes:
>*
>Hi, all!  I'm briefly resubbing just to let folks know I'm still on the
>trail.  I left it at the midway point in PA in the middle of the summer with
>severe plantar fasciitis, returned in September to hike through NH (wanting
>to get the Whites out of the way), hitched up to Katahdin and then went
>south through Maine, then hopped over NH to continue SOBO through VT.  I'm
>now in Dalton, MA, and hope to finish in PA by New Year's.
>*
>     Wow! A hardcore southbound flipper like I did it! - though much
>later and more into the isolation season! WOW! Hardly anybody does it that 
>way.
>The melancholy fall and cold are unique to those doing this way. Good luck 
>and
>pray for no early cold snap. Days are short and nights are long!

Seven degrees isn't cold? It is to this body and I live up here. To someone 
from LA it must feel like Antarctica.