[pct-l] Breaking News!!!

[Reinhold Metzger]

Yes Switchback......wise move to back out gracefully using the KO 
activities criteria.....before you get pummeled and humiliated by 
Melanie in a push up contest at the KO.
Your chances would improve substantially if, instead, you would 
challenge Melanie to a ''Arm Wrestling Contest" or,  better yet,  to a  
"Pie Eating Contest".
You have far greater storage capacity than Melanie.
Melanie would run out of storage capacity long before you and would have 
to quit and declare you the winner.

JMT Reinhold
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On 1/5/2011 6:11 AM, hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
> 8-)
> Yes, you have escaped major humiliation at the upcoming April 
> Kickoff.  A Push Up Contest is not an approved activity at the 
> Kickoff. It is illegal and a condemed.  Otherwise, you would be 
> smashed to pieces by a real hardcore backpacker and not a wantabe.  
> Boy are you and Brick lucky.
> The Dawg Switchback
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>
> From: Melanie Clarke <melaniekclarke at gmail.com>
>
> Dear Reinhold,
>
> I have to tell you that this has made me think twice about my hiking 
> plans this season.  I can't do the entire PCT until I retire 4 years 
> from now so I WAS thinking about doing the JMT again alone.  Then I 
> figured that I may as well do "sections" until I retire and then I 
> will really know what I am doing when I finally make the entire 
> quest.  If I start with the KO this year I can maybe do the first 400 
> miles or so and at least have some people along the way.  That might 
> take me to hwy 58 or so.  The conditions will be about the same given 
> the same time of the year etc.  So, I have to start my logistics 
> efforts now.
>
> I just can't pass on the opportunity to put that dawg, Switchback in 
> his place and teach him the meaning of respect!!!!!!
>
> Melanie
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> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Reinhold Metzger 
> <reinholdmetzger at cox.net <mailto:reinholdmetzger at cox.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi gang,
>     I understand that  "Brute  Switchback"  is in heavy training for
>     his push up contest against Melanie, at the  "KO",  to defend and
>     prove man's superiority  once and for all.
>
>     JMT Reinhold
>
>