[at-l] Katahdin bound!..... almost.

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 02:12 PM 7/8/2005 -0700, Sloetoe wrote:
>Sometime soon -- maybe Monday or so, the boys and I will be off
>to do some or all of the following three things:
>
>1) Climb Katahdin. (which we missed last year because of
>Hurricane Bonnie, who was not such a wee Bonnie lass by the time
>she flooded the Nesowadnehunk for us, quite nearly stranding us
>without much food, but certainly delaying us for 4+ hours, and
>killing our climbing day.
>
>2) Use up some neato Alpine Slide day passes from last year,
>which expire on July 14 if we don't get them renewed first, all
>the way up near Intervale, NH.
>
>3) Hike all/most of the CT and MA AT. I'm actually thinking of
>starting out by hopping a train from my parents' house on the
>shore in CT, riding into NYC, and thencely switching trains in
>Grand Central (maybe after a requisite visit to WTC site,
>Battery Park, MOMA, etc.), thencely north on Hudson commuter
>line to AT crossing, thencely NOBO on AT through CT and MA to
>Greylock and North Adams. Maybe blueblaze old AT through CT for
>some added miles -- certainly for some added scenery, I've
>heard.
>
>Don't have a real schedule yet, but have to hit the Alpine Slide
>thing early, and figure why not just continue on to K? Oh, well.
>But we'll certainly be trying to keep things on a lower mileage
>key than last year. Rafting (the Hous, the Swift, and certainly,
>the Kennebec) will probably be in there, too. Sit down, drink
>some microbrew.
>
>Been a swiftly approaching summer.
>Hope you all are doing well.
>
>'toe

You wouldn't happen to be a type "A" would you? :D