[pct-l] Fw: Mt. Tripper

[Georgi Heitman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Georgi Heitman 
To: Andrea Dinsmore ; Jim "Mountaintripper" Munger 
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Mt. Tripper



  Andrea suggested.....


  Maybe we can get him to come up here and help us in April on the hiker dorm........would that be dicipline enough ???????..........:)      Georgi replied...
  I doubt it...making him stay and help cook, or repair flood damage, added to the Hiker Dorm might come closer....and now that I think of it...not too sure who would suffer more if Mt. T cooked, him or his victims.  I like Mt. Goat's suggestion of Olive Oil and his sleeping bag down too, but shouldn't we toss in a rail or two?  Hugs, back,
  Georgi

  On 12/28/06, Georgi Heitman <bobbnweav at citlink.net> wrote: 
    Well, my dears,
      
       Call off the militia!!!  Retrieve the canine body sniffers!!

    Seems, thanks to the Mountain Goat, that we have found Mountain Tripper.  I called the Hiker Hut in Etna after Mt. Goat called me.  He'd phoned there and had spoken with a caretaker (Dave and Vicki are on vacation) who said the Tripper had been there since about mid-October, helping the Henderson's out with landscaping and general maintenance. 
    I left my phone number and have just spoken with Mt. Tripper, who is a bit chagrined, he thought he'd covered his bases, but will get computer access this evening and start getting the word out to people that he's o.k.  He hasn't checked his e-mails in a while so he'll have some from several of us.  I said I'd call that other Jim Munger in Phoenix and tell their answering machine that we've found you and we are sorry for any incontinence our phone messages might have caused, Jim said he'd take care of that himself this evening too. 
    I (gently?) reminded him that notifying family and friends in Phoenix, etc., is one thing but that Trail Angels and trail friends need to know he's safe and warm too, and if he ever did something like this to us again, once we found him, I'd be coming by to inflict some damage to his body.  I also said that Mountain Goat had made the offer, come spring to hike the stretch of trail from Castle Crags St. Park to Seiad Valley, looking for whatever he might be able to recover.(gulp)I think I got our point across. 
    Andrea, you emailed your request for news of Tripper to a bunch more people than I have listed here.  Can you please spread the word to them as well?