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

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My hiking highlight for 2006 was just before the Ruck.  I took a little walk in North Ga.  It was cold as hell.  I spent one night at Blue Mnt. Shelter.  The wind was blowing real hard when I got there.  There was a fella already there with his tent over top of his sleeping bag to keep it from getting covered with snow.  The next morning he said his ears were frozen.  I told him mine were toasty warm.  I was sporting a brandy new Rock Dancer Special hat.  I told him that Rock Dancer had made the hat and sent them to folks he knew just because he was a nice guy.  He mumbled something about I didn't have to rub it in.  I asked him what he said. He answered,"I wish I knew Rock Dancer".  That day I walked to Hog pen gap and got in the jeep and drove to Atlanta and stayed in the nicest hotel I have ever stayed in.  They even had a guy that took your bags to your room.  He acted like my backpack was just like all the other fancy luggage folks had.

The hiking lowlights for 2006 was June 16th.  I was hiking down what has come to be known in the Dodge household as Mount Misery, just past where handhold bars are at. :>((  I will go back to that miserable mountain and hike it again.  When I do I may go back to calling it Katahdin.
  

Clyde
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Laurie Corbin <mslimpsalot at yahoo.com>
> 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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