[pct-l] ''Ode Coyote''....aka ''Squid''

[Reinhold Metzger]

Hi Gang,
Just to let you know I met ''Ode Coyote'' again.
One or two days before or after Christmas, walking home  after a hike along
the beach in San Diego,I saw an older hiker with a  backpack hiking in the
opposite direction I was going.  As we were approaching each other I thought
it was ''Billy Goat'' but then realized it was ''Ode Coyote''. We chatted
for an extended period of time and then he went on his way expecting to
reach the boarder in 2 days.
After that he was going to go to Catalina Island for a week or two and then
to the Big Sur area to do a section that he skipped on his SOBO  Coastal
Trail hike and complete his second Coastal Tail.
He was looking good, looked well fed and was in good spirit.
I intended to post this back then, but with holiday company and a ski trip
right afterwards and trashing my shoulder and surgery it fell through the
crack.

JMT Reinhold
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinhold Metzger" <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
To: <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:21 AM
Subject: ''Ode Coyote''


> Hi gang,
> I spend Thanksgiving at Pismo Beach, by San Luis Obispo, an decided to
hike
> out to Point Sale by Vandenberg Air Force Base. Spectacular scenery, sand
> dunes, an isolated beaches.
> On my way back I saw an old backpacker, with a white beard, scrambling up
a
> sand dune.
> My first reaction was it's ''Billy Goat,'' so I waited for him to catch up
> with me.
> Turned out it was ''Ode Coyote'', his current trail name, his old trail
name
> was ''Squid or Squish'' or something like that.
> We walked and talked for a while until he set up camp for the night at the
> top of a ridge with a panoramic 360 degree view of the beaches an dunes.
> ''Ode Coyote'' goes back a long way,and like ''Billy Goat'', is retired
and
> spends all his time roaming around in the wilderness. He knows many off
the
> old timers and  attended the earlier
> ALDAH-West meetings until he developed a anti-establishment mentality and
> decided he had nothing to prove  anymore and just withdrew to go solo.
> He purposely skipped 5 feet of the CDT as a protest against the Triple
Crown
> award which, he claims, is for glory and publicity hounds not for hikers
who
> hike for the pure joy of hiking.
> I disagreed with him of course, but his mind is set.
> It turned out ''Ode Coyote'' is doing his second ''Coastal Trail'' through
> hike SOB in 7 month.
>
> DO  ANY  OFF  YOU  OLD  TIMERS  REMEMBER  ''ODE  COYOTE''?
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Another of your ''Old Timer'' trail companion
> P.S. ''Old Timers'' are becoming an endangered species
>