Re: [at-l] High Country Musings

[kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>]

At 09:16 AM 9/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>But wait just a
>second, gal.  I'm over 60...

You are kidding!?!?!?!?
Well shut my mouth!!!!

is this supposed to be a problem for hikers??
<vbg>  --  Earthworm

I intend to still be hiking when I'm sixty, but when I hear the kinds of 
elevation
changes that the CDT brings, we'll it's more than I can imagine me doing.

I feel comfortable about the AT...you really are never that far from humanity
and all the conveniences and stores.  But the CDT is a whole different
animal.  Few blazes, fewer people except in the more famous stretches.
Deserts.....really risky water sources.  Ice axes.....yikes.  I guess I'm
just a wooosie.  But the remoteness of their experience is just awesome to
me.  Maybe it's my hubby having a heart attack in his forties this spring....
dunno.....
But doing the CDT.....going soooo far out of the comfort zone.....yep!!!!
That impresses the heck out of me....at any age.

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