[at-l] Year End Survey time.....

[Laurie Corbin]

1)  Highlights and lowlights of hiking in 2006?  The lowlight was limping back to the truck after a 6 mile dayhike.  This was a week before the ankle fusion surgery.  Some of you may remember me hopping around the SoRuck last year.  I took 6 months off and let the ankle grow together and went on the first backpacking trip in November.  The real highlight of the year, however, was at the end of that trip.  It was cold and misty and I had been carefully hiking along near Woody Gap in GA.  I made it back to the truck and was leaning against it and enjoying the afternoon when a family with a couple of little kids came down from Big Cedar.  The dad went to the back of the car and started handing out sodas and snacks to the kids.  One of the kids, a little girl of about 6, had been looking at me.  She walked over and held out her little hand with the soda in it and said, "You want my soda, lady?"  I didn't take her soda but it gave me hope that a new generation of hikers will
 take over after we've gone and the Magic will continue.  

2)  Hiking plans and hopes for 2007.  I will hike every chance I get.  Marta has been dangling a JMT trip under my nose.  Doubt I'll refuse.

See you all at the SoRuck,

REverse


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