[pct-l] AL SHAVERS jmt record attempt up-date

[Tortoise]

Maybe the difference is the wisdom of age verses the impetuousness of youth.


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Tortoise

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Reinhold Metzger wrote:u
> AL  SHAVER  called me earlier today and informed me that he abandoned his
> third attempt for the  ''unsupported  JMT  record''  and bailed out at Wood
> Creek.
> 
> Therefore the  ''unsupported''  record still stands at.....5 days....7
> hrs....45 minutes.
> 
> I never envisioned that the record would stand that long, I always assumed
> it would fall soon to a young & capable backpacker or trail runner yet,
> after several attempts, over the last three years,
> by several hot shot trail runners, the record still
> stands..................WHY???
> 
>      ''MAYBE  THEY  DON'T  MAKE  THEM  LIKE  THEY  USED  TO  ANYMORE???''
> 
> Boy, I bet that comment will set off a stampede next year to break the
> record, to prove that they  not only still make them like they used to, but
> that they make them better now a days.
> 
> JMT Reinhold
> Your limping and hobbling Sr. Citizen trail companion
>