[at-l] OT - Had to share this one!

[m_factor at hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

Nope.  Being tall is not an advantage on the AT.  It's us tall folks that 
walk around with bruises on our foreheads from banging into low hanging 
branches that our friends walk under without having to duck.  Then there are 
all the shelters with low-hanging roofs that you'll be able to enter with 
impunity.  Us tall folks will invariably be proud that we remembered to duck 
the first five times in and out of the shelter and then bang into the roof 
at 2:00am on our way to the latrine, not only giving ourselves a headache, 
but waking up the entire shelter in the process.

Ow!!!

Mara
Stitches, AT99

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>From: Ms Nira Duvan <nduvan@yahoo.com>
>To: greyowl@rcn.com, Lilla Thompson <lthompson@hollins.edu>,Mara Factor 
><m_factor@hotmail.com>, at-l@backcountry.net
>CC: aT-L <at-l@backcountry.net>
>Subject: RE: [at-l] OT - Had to share this one!
>Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:21:51 -0800 (PST)
>
>Is this a preview of what's to come for the vertically
>disadvantaged thru hiker variety?  At 5'4" I look up
>more often than down to meet people's eyes.
>
>If you could have any Uncle Gadget trait, what would
>it be?
>
>I'd have go-go-gadget extendable legs... Then it would
>only take 2 million steps to hike the AT!  And I'd be
>tall ;)
>
>Cheers
>go-go-gadget Nira
>
>--- greyowl@rcn.com wrote:
>
> > At 6' 6" tallI am often asked to head out on the
> > trial first.  I always carry my hiking stick in
> > one hand pointed  straight up.  One day I spied a
> > really big web across the trail, before I
> > ran into it.  Stepped off the trail and around the
> > web.  I was rewarded 30 seconds later
> > when my shorter friend walked into the web and
> > started screaming.  I laught for minutes
> > afterwards.
> >
> > Grey Owl
> >
>
>
>
>
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