[at-l] I was just wonderin....

[David Addleton]

that's EXACTLY what clyde axed for and me too if I'd been thinking about it
. . . but instead I was ruminating about etymology

On 12/29/06, Felix J <athiker at smithville.net> wrote:
>
> rcli4 at comcast.net wrote:
>
> >What happened 8 years ago today?????
> >
>
> Well, now there then...
>
> The day after the day I call the best day of my life (8 years ago
> Tuesday) I hiked to the Fontana Dam. I hitched a ride to the motel with
> a guy who was stoned. The ride would have been scary enough without the
> added element of drugs in the veins. I made it. It was Sunday and I
> wanted to watch NFL football and take a shower. The black and white
> Philco (I'm serious) wouldn't pick up anything (I'm also serious), so I
> took showers. Lots of showers. Showers became my hobby.
>
> When the guy that runs the motel dropped me off at the Trail the next
> day, eight years ago yesterday, it started sprinkling. It soon began
> pouring, and did the rest of the day. 'twas a miserable day. Ask the
> group of young boys that were
> there with their fathers. I passed them, about 12 in all, in little
> groups. They weren't having much fun. I hiked on to Stecoah Gap. I was
> very pleased as I began to cross the highway, rain still falling, to see
> a large, hairy man emerge from a small, steamy car. 'twas my good buddy
> Pittsburgh there to see me, and take me to more showers. (Seperate
> showers, mind ya.) After hiking all day with cold water pounding me, I
> couldn't wait to spend a few minutes with hot water pounding me.
>
> Pittsburgh and I watched the Steelers get beat on Monday night football.
> We had a very nice room in Robbinsville, NC  and it had a nice shower.
> The next morning, eight years ago today,  he dropped me off at Stecoah
> Gap. The day was drizzly, overcast, chilly and uneventful. It was
> Tuesday. I called my mom from NOC. It's always good to talk to your mom.
> I saw mail for Pilot in the 'hiker mail box' and told the girl working
> there that Pilot is long gone. Pilot is sitting in my livingroom right
> now.
>
> I took a break at Morgan Shelter and it was dark when I left there for
> Wesser Bald Shelter. Somewhere in between, it started to snow. Temps
> were dropping and it was unpleasant. After I got to the shelter, I
> walked around in the wind-blown snow, looking for a non-existent privy.
> No, I would not have looked had I known it didn't exist. It got very
> cold that night. Cold and windy. My sleeping bag had snow on it the next
> morning.....which, I believe, was eight years ago tomorrow...and, that's
> not what Clyde axed for.
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