[pct-l] Switchback's Whitney hike and future monument

[reinholdmetzger at cox.net]

Don't  worry Deems the Whitney Toilet is no more so our beloved Switchback will not be faced with the indignity of being buried next to the Whitney Throne....on second thought embalmed and sitting on the throne for all eternity  might not be a bad final resting place for Switchback the conqueror of MT. Whitney.

JMT Reinhold
The mortician

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>Switchback wrote,
> Say, Switchback is getting ready to tackle Mt. Whitney in August.  It will 
> be a
> fight to the finish. No quarter given and no quarter asked. The wounded will
> be bayoneted.  In other words, I will not be coming back.  It will be a 
> drive-by
> shooting by Mt. Whitney.  Switchback will go into hiker history as another 
> Whitney
> statistic.  I thank you.
> Switchback
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Deems wrote,
> As the generations of future hikers and adventurers go forth into the Sierra 
> to seek all she has to challenge our bodies and minds, how will we recognize 
> Switchback's final resting place?, the monument to his long rewarding and 
> rich life of pirate plundering , wisdom,and adventure. I hope it's not next 
> to the Whitney Toilet. And yet, a stone pile next to the Whitney toilet is a 
> better plot of turf than in the local generic 6ft reposistory for the dead. 
> I plan to be cremated in a remote Sierra campfire, and have my ashes 
> scattered by a female wilderness ranger.