Re: [at-l] Hike the Approach Trail!

[Pat Villeneuve <patv@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>]

I know his daughter and have a copy of the book. His daughter STILL 
can't get over how this respectable postmaster looked on the trail. 
Sound familiar?

Give Me Chocolate

Leslie Booher wrote:
> 
> Remember Jumpstart?  He parachuted onto Springer.  He has a great
> self-published little book, available only from him.  I don't know how I
> came to order one.  His son and son-in-law dropped hot pizzas down to him
> ever so often throughout his entire thru-hike.  Funny guy.  Used to be the
> postmaster in one of the little towns along the trail in NE TN.  Last
> communication my brother and I had from him was that he'd fallen from a tree
> and was injured right badly, back or something, but was slowly recovering.
> Should be pretty old, now.  Leslie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slyinmd@aol.com <Slyinmd@aol.com>
> To: rpbowles@midway.uchicago.edu <rpbowles@midway.uchicago.edu>;
> at-l@backcountry.net <at-l@backcountry.net>
> Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 7:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Hike the Approach Trail!
> 
> >In a message dated 11/17/99 11:06:34 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
> >rpbowles@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
> >
> ><< The reason- I was hiking the Appalachian Trail, not just hiking.  I had
> > been waiting months to get started, and I sure didn't want to hike 8 miles
> > I didn't have to just to get to the Trail. >>
> >
> >Absolutely.  Furthermore, I'd like to see a helicopter service taking
> hikers
> >off the trail at Katahdin.  Why waste the effort getting down?  ; )
> >
> >I didn't do it in '97 either for many of the same reasons, but next year I
> >will (did I say that already?)
> >
> >ymmv, Sly
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