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

[Gadog430]

Highlight:
1) Losing 50 pounds and working up to 4-6 miles a day walking. Still have 30
to go, but I feel great. Much better shape for tackling mountains, which I
will be doing in two weeks with some of my best friends in the world.
Yeeehaaa.
Lowlight:
1) Very little time in 2006 for any hiking at all. when you buy a house,
there is so much to do and so many funds directed there that there isn't
much time for anything else Plans are being formulated for 2007 that include
a 4-5 day hike sometime in early summer on the Ga portions that I have not
done.

2006 was a great year.

Dawg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurie Corbin" <mslimpsalot at yahoo.com>
To: "Sloetoe" <sloetoe at yahoo.com>; <at-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Year End Survey time.....


> 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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