[pct-l] Voting and Hiking

[Carl Siechert]

As was I. We were on the Tahoe-Yosemite Trail and arrived at Kennedy Meadows
(north) on August 10. Everyone at the resort had a copy of the San Francisco
Chronicle with the banner headline: NIXON RESIGNS. It was a real shock to
us; even though Watergate had consumed the country for months, when we left
Tuolumne Meadows several days earlier, we certainly didn't expect this
sudden denouement.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, AsABat <AsABat at 4jeffrey.net> wrote:

>
> Yes, hiking has a way of putting the world aside. I was hiking across
> the Sierra the week Nixon resigned. I had forgotten all about Watergate
> during that time, concerned only with enjoying God's creation on my
> hike.
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