Re: Year End Survey: was Re: [at-l] The earth shook -- a fancifultrip report

[Rick Bombaci <rpb@eoni.com>]

Well, I'd planned a few weeks in the Wind Rivers, but I couldn't get any of
the local contractors to give me a bid on redoing my driveway and front
walk, so instead I settled for one fabulous 5 day hike in the local hills,
and 3 months of daily sweating with a pickax, shovel, concrete, 50 cubic
yards of 3/4- gravel (that's 1,350 cubic feet, which weighs probably about
50,000 pounds, no joke), 336 85-pound textured retaining wall blocks (let's
see, that's 28,560 pounds x the two or three times I moved each block),
1585 brick pavers, and a couple truckloads of sand.  I got to spend most
every afternoon outside and crack Italian jokes with my Irish buddy working
on the house next door.

The hike was pretty good, too.  I saw a bear with two cubs, 50 or 60 Rocky
Mountain elk, 6 bighorn sheep rams, 14 mountain goats, and (fleetingly) a
pine marten.  The colors were turning in the headwaters of the Imnaha, and
coyotes howled once or twice.  Oh, and I managed to put out the
almost-forest-fire I discovered at 3:00 in the morning a few hundred feet
from my camp.  Can't beat that with a stick.


At 03:12 PM 12/17/99 -0500, you wrote:

>Sloetoe throws out:
>And speaking of Your End Events, I thought we might survey the list as to 
>how your year was. Please respond (Lurkers, once a year won't kill you) to 
>the list with your answers to the following.
>
>1) What were some highlights and lowlights of your hiking in 1999?
>highlights
>lowlights
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>2) What are your hiking goals for 2000?
>
>3) What are some highlights and lowlights of the at-l from 1999?
>highlights
>lowlights
>
>4) What would you wish to the list be for 2000?
>
>
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