[at-l] Still out here!

[shellydhale at earthlink.net (Shelly Hale)]

'Course...then again...if the typical male hiker is anything like my
hubby...they wouldn't tell a soul and would tough it out.

Shelly Hale
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "william fitzpatrick" <jestbill@yahoo.com>
To: "atl" <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Still out here!


> In 2003 I met two women hikers with broken wrists.  Is this "normal?"  Do
men
> break their wrists on the AT?  Maybe when men break bones they stop
hiking.
>
> --- 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!
> >
> >
> >
> >
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