[pct-l] A backpackers best friend

[hiker97 at aol.com]

I expect Unsupported Reinhold to be going for the Super Senior JMT Unsupported record this year.  I true record for the books.
 
Say, the other day when Brick, Strider, Kelty Kid, and I had lunch with 97-year old Glen Dawson in Pasadena, CA, Glen would drop bombshells on us at the dinning room lunch table.  He did it casually as it was no big deal.  He would say things like, "I was in on the search party to find Walter Starr Jr."  "I summitted  the last unclimbed 14,000 footer in the Sierras", etc., etc., etc.  It was unbelievable to be listening to it all.  It was like you were in a dream world.  He let me look at his hand written dairy with pictures from about 1927 when he was over here in Las Vegas and climbed Mt. Charleston.
 
Later up in his retirment home apartment, he says "Come over here and look at this picture hanging on the wall.  It was a black and white of him as a young man.  Then he says, "Ansel Adams took it."  He knew Ansel Adams very well and had many outdoor experiences with him.  You are speechless and cannot respond to things like that.  This will be like Unsupported Reinhold when he sets the new Super Senior record.  I plan to support the attempt with secret Jack Daniel's trail refreshers.
 
The Switch Back


-----Original Message-----
From: Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
To: PCT <pct-l at backcountry.net>; Hiker97 <hiker97 at aol.com>; Deems <losthiker at sisqtel.net>; MONTE DODGE <montedodge at msn.com>; Al Shaver <alshaver2000 at yahoo.com>; Michael Popov <michael.popov at yahoo.com>; Sorensen, Aaron BM1 <Aaron.W.Sorensen at uscg.mil>; joseph kisner <lostonthecrest at hotmail.com>; Stephen <reddirt2 at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sat, Jan 2, 2010 9:47 pm
Subject: A backpackers best friend


Hi gang, 
The following story and pictures demonstrate the versatility and multi-use of duct tape and 
are undeniable, undisputable proof that duct tape is a backpackers best friend. 
I know some of you will say a "hiker babe" is a backpacker's best friend. 
But duct tape can do so many more things for you that a "hiker babe" could never do. 
Don't get me wrong, "hiker babes" come in handy, but they are not multi-use like duct tape. 
 
I feel "so" contend in my UL sleeping bag with a roll of duct tape at my side.  
Well, got to go now, I'm off to the Sierra for another week of skiing. 
There is nothing like a week of skiing to make those legs all rubbery. 
Hopefully, by the end of the ski season and by the beginning of the hiking season, 
all that rubber will be converted into solid steel. 
 
JMT Reinhold 
Your duct tape loving trail companion 
 
   
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>> > The pilot used his radio and had another pilot bring him 2 new 
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>> > He patched the plane together, and FLEW IT HOME! 
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