[pct-l] First & Second Thing To Go-2

[Reinhold Metzger]

Trekker 4,
I am so relieved to know your eyesight is not failing you, for lovely  
''Tavarale''  would have been so disappointed.
BTW....how is lovely '' Tavarale''?......I have not heard from her for 
sometime.

JMT Reinhold

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Trekker4 at aol.com wrote:
> Reinhold,
>  
>     I didn't say /my/ eyesight was failing; I suggested /your's/ might 
> be. Secondly, I can clearly see from over a thousand miles away that 
> you just might be trying to bs everyone.
>  
> Gone hikin' - trekker at pocketmail.com <mailto:trekker at pocketmail.com>
> Bob "Trekker"
> Big Bend Desert Denizen
> Naturalized Citizen - Republic of Texas
>
> Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it 
> wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'
> -- Harry Browne
>
> "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it 
> costs when its free."
> -- P. J. ORourke
>
>  
> In a message dated 6/11/2008 4:37:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time, 
> reinholdmetzger at cox.net writes:
>
>     Say,
>     Trekker 4, there is a saying with guys, as they get old, eyesight
>     is the ''SECOND''
>     thing to go.
>     My eyesight is still OK, therefore my ''FIRST'' thing is still OK.
>
>     Sorry to hear that your eyesight is failing you, because that
>     means that your ''FIRST''
>     thing has already failed.....bummer....old age can be brutal.
>     I don't know if this will help, but most guys your age start
>     having that problem.
>
>     Ohhh well, you can always take up knitting to fulfill your life
>     when you are
>     not backpacking.
>     The bright thing about this, you want be distracted by hiker
>     chicks and be able to do more
>     miles per day.
>     Good luck on your trek and Happy 65th Birthday.
>
>     JMT Reinhold
>     Your sympathetic trail companion
>
>     -----------------------
>
>     Trekker 4 writes:
>
>     Perhaps those Whitney elevation changes are due to deteriorating,
>     old age 
>     eyesight!
>
>     Donner Pass to McKenzie, starting about 1 July, will determine if
>     I'm 
>     getting older; #65 comes somewhere around Drakesbad G R or Old
>     Station in  July.
>
>     Bob  "Trekker"
>     Big Bend Desert Denizen
>     Naturalized Citizen - Republic of  Texas
>
>
>
>     In a message dated 6/8/2008 3:24:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time, 
>     reinholdmetzger at cox.net
>     <http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l> writes:
>
>     Did the  Grand Canyon ''Tanner-New Hance Loop'' over the Memorial
>     Day 
>     Weekend.
>     The Canyon was spectacular as always.
>     It has been some time  since I last did  the Tanner-New  Hance 
>     loop and 
>     had  forgotten how tough that trail is.
>     It was a struggle all the way to the  top......seems like the
>     trails are
>     getting tougher every year.
>     My wife  says  ''it's not the trails.....it's old age....your
>     getting  old.''
>     Yeah, well, she might be right, but I'm not so sure about that.
>     I  remember distinctly the first time I hiked Mt. Whitney, in
>     1968, the 
>     official height was listed as 14,494 feet.
>     Then later it was listed as  14,495 and now it is listed as
>     14,496.7 feet.
>     Seems to me like overwhelming  evidence of  Tectonic Plate
>     movement and
>     up-lifting.
>
>     IT   IS  NOT  OLD  AGE......It's uplifting.......the mountains are 
>     getting higher.....that's why the trails are getting tougher.
>
>     I  feel much better now, realizing that it is up-lifting and old
>     age has 
>     nothing to do with it.
>     This is great news for all of us Sr. Citizen  hikers.
>
>     JMT Reinhold
>     Your greatly relieved Sr. Citizen  hiker
>
>
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