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[pct-l] Becky Selling's Introduction
- Subject: [pct-l] Becky Selling's Introduction
- From: res46 at cornell.edu (Rebecca Emily Selling)
- Date: Tue Nov 11 21:37:33 2003
Hi All,
It's so neat to hear about everyone, where you're from how you got
where you are! I thought I would share a bit about myself. As seen in
the title of this message, my name is Becky Selling. I'm currently a
sophomore at Cornell university majoring in psychology and neurobiology
(headed to med school). Originally I am from Philadelphia, PA where I
went to a quaker school (for 13 of my 19 years). Quakers are great,
talk to them about life if you get a chance :)
I started camping basically before I was born. My first summit was
black beute (sp?) in Oregon. I climbed it when I was 2 years old.
I've been hiking ever since, and loving it more and more ever since.
The outdoors is really my source of spritiuality so I can't stay
away for too long (thank goodness Philly has a BIG city park).
I'm pretty involved with outdoorsy organizations at Cornell. I'm
President of the Outing Club, lead a trip to the Adirondacks this
summer for incoming freshman and I instruct for Cornell Outdoor
Education.
My parents started this tradition in my family that every time you
turned a new age you got to do a hike of that many miles. When I
turned 7 I was allowed to hike 7 miles, just enough to get 1/2 way up
Mt. Katahdin in Maine and then turn back. I wan't happy...my sister
got to go the whole way up. Needless to say the next year, age 8, I
broke the tradition and hiked up Mt. Washington in NH. This year I'm
really breaking that tradition. I'm hiking as much of the PCT as I
can in a collegiate summer. I'm starting around Agua Dulce due to the
fact that exam weak coincodes perfectly with ADZPCTKO...sigh. I can't
wait to see a bunch of you out there!
Dreaming of May......(should be studying)
-Becky Selling