[pct-l] 2013 Super Hike

[Reinhold Metzger]

On 10/28/2011 2:32 PM, Reinhold Metzger wrote:
> There....you did it again Switchback......I  TOLD  YOU  NOT  TO  
> PROVOKE  ME.
>
> I was not suggesting that you select Strider, AsABat, Elevator, Meadow 
> Ed, Donna and Yogie as hiking partners for your 2013 PCT record 
> breaking super hike....they would not be able to keep up with you.
>
> I was talking about you using them as  "FLOAT"  carriers  "FAN" girls 
> and  "TRUMPED"  blowers on your 2013 " CLEOPATRA  STYLE"  super 
> hike.....you know, the one and only absolute correct way to thru the 
> PCT,  as described in my  4-16-2009 post.
>
> You never make it to the border your way.
> MY WAY...the..."JMT REINHOLD  - CLEOPATRA WAY"....the one and only  
> "ABSOLUTE CORRECT WAY"
> is the only way you are ever going to make it to the border.
>
> So there....I said all I wanted to say, perhaps more than I should 
> have said, and am retreating, once again, into my  ''Lurker'' mode
>
> DO NOT PROVOKE ME AGAIN.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> The "Lurker"
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>
> On 10/28/2011 8:54 AM, hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
>> Super Senior JMT Lurker Reinhold writes: Switchback, I suggest you 
>> contact Strider, AsABat, Elevator, Meadow Ed, Donna, and Yogie to get 
>> your team together. I think I will now sign off and retreat back into 
>> my customary lurker mode, until further provoked by the likes of 
>> Switchback.
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>> Switchback replies: Say, I see you are still using the moniker 
>> "Lurker" like you did back in the old PCT days.  I seem to remember 
>> you being referred to as the Lurker back when John Muir and I use to 
>> climb trees in furious Sierra storms just to feel the rocking.  I 
>> remember John telling me that Lurker Reinhold bears watching.
>> Anyway, I am not sure about your Record Breaking 2013 PCT Thru-Hike 
>> team member recommendations.  I know all these people and they are my 
>> pals.  I like them.  But they are getting a little weather worn and 
>> frayed around the edges.  I am sure the heart is willing, but the 
>> body, well lets just say it is not what it use to be.  The hike I am 
>> leading in 2013 is for the those who are in their prime.  It is for 
>> those who can push record breaking days.  It is for those who who can 
>> look Mother Nature in the eye and not blink.  It is for the elite men 
>> and women who laugh at danger.  And who laugh at hardship.  It is for 
>> those who say after a 40+ mile day, "Hey, why are we quitting so 
>> soon?  We can use our headlamps and get in another 10 miles."
>> I appreciate your expedition recommendations.  I know they were all 
>> honored to be recommended by you.  May be I should have an auxiliary 
>> list or associate 2013 expedition member list, so no one gets their 
>> feelings hurt.  Rejection is hard to take sometimes.
>