Re: [at-l] Shelter sleeping and 99ers

[Felix <AThiker@smithville.net>]

Tom Fort wrote:
> > << Here's a question for you folks....which way do you sleep with your head in
> > a
> > shelter and why? With your head towards the open part or towards the back
> > wall? >>

If I'm alone in the shelter, I sleep parallel to the back wall, head in 
the corner with the most wind protection. I do this for all kinds of 
reasons:
Further/farther away from the opening (wind and rain/rein/reign 
protection).
Prop my head up for whatever reasons I want my head propped up.
Keeps all of my crap (stuff) from falling on the ground. 
It feels more secure (I would more than likely hear someone/thing when it 
got on the platform than if my head were right there with a bullseye on 
it)

If there are others in the shelter, I sleep with my head to the back 
wall, and try to along the sidewall. If the space at the back is too 
short, I'll sleep with me head near the opening. Pokey could bump her 
head on a shelter roof while still hiking on the approach trail. I don't 
think there was a shelter we stayed in that she didn't send a little wood 
flyin'.

Now, about that '99er stuff...
Since I finished in '99, was  I supposed to be raising my hand, too? I've 
been thinking about that register on Springer. Even though I was the 
first one to kiss the plaque (Couldn't find my toothbrush), I was not the 
first one to sign in (I don't think). It was either QP or Windbraker. I 
didn't want them reading what I wrote and then copying it.

And, someone asked about goals...

My first goal is to not get divorced this year. Did that last year and it 
wasn't that much fun. Second, I'd like to finish up my thru-hiking by 
starting the Duncannon to Katahdin section this late fall. Third, I've 
already started thinking about the next thru-hike, so I'm going to start 
working toward that end. Fourth, I must make a decision on that 
sex-change operation. I'm tired of having that over my head. (I almost 
made it all the way through...)

So, I sez to Lulu, I sez "Look yonder, there."
-- 
Felix J. McGillicuddy
ME-->GA '98
"Your Move"

Stop and see me at:  http://members.tripod.com/~Felixhikes/index.html

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