[pct-l] Never Underestimate a Hardcore Backpacker

[Reinhold Metzger]

Yes,
We Marine Grunts were a hard drinking bunch.
Drink all day, chase women all night ( sometimes these women were hart 
to catch) especially if you could not run a straight line.

JMT Reinhold
Sgt., USMC-1964-1968
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Hiker97 wrote:
> It is the height of PCT backpacking season in a trailtown saloon at 
> night.  Many thru hikers are there downing their well earned cold 
> brews and hot pizzas.  The usually compliment of admiring hiker babes 
> are there too.  Then the roar of many Harley's are heard outside.
>  
> A big tough biker pack leader with his buddies and ole Ladies walks 
> in.  He announces in a defying voice, "I hear you backpackers are a 
> bunch of hard drinkers.  I'll give $500 dollars to anybody in here who 
> can drink 12 bottles of beer back-to-back, and  if ya'll can't do it 
> you pay me $500. The room is quiet.
>
> No one takes up the biker's offer.  Then Unsupported USMC Reinhold 
> gets up and politely leaves the table of hiker bros and babes.  About 
> 15 minutes later Unsupported comes back and taps the biker on the 
> shoulder. "Is your bet still good?".
>  
> The burly biker says, "Yup", and asks the bartender to line up 12 
> bottles of beer.
>  
> Immediately Unsupported tears into all 12 of the bottles 
> chug-a-lugging them all back-to-back. The other hiker bar patrons 
> cheer madly as the bikers sheepishly sits in amazement.
>  
> The biker leader gives Unsupported the $500 and says, "If ya'll don't 
> mind me askin', where did you go for that 15 minutes when you were gone?"
>  
> Unsupported replies, "Oh, I went to the saloon down the street to see 
> if I could do it first."
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> Later, Switchback
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