[pct-l] Hiker Priorities

[Reinhold Metzger]

[pct-l] Hiker Priorities
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I can see why Grizzly got so upset.....those carbon fiber poles are 
valuable and are
treasured by hikers.

JMT Reinhold
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Switchback wrote:

At dawn the telephone rings at Grizzly's valley trail town home.
  
  "Hello, Señor Grizzly?This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your back country log home estate."
  
  "Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?"
  
  "Um, I am just calling to advise you, Señor Grizzly, that your parrot, he is dead".
  
  "My parrot? Dead? The one that won the international competition?"
  
  "Si, Señor, that's the one."
  
  "Damn! That's a pity!I spent a small fortune on that bird. What did he die from?"
  
"From eating the rotten meat, Señor Grizzly"
  
  "Rotten meat? Who would feed him rotten meat?"
  
  "Nobody, Señor. He ate the meat of the dead horse."
  
"Dead horse? What dead horse?"
  
  "Your thoroughbred,Señor Grizzly."
  
"My prize thoroughbred is dead?"
  
"Si, Señor Grizzly, he died from all that work pulling the water cart."
  
"Are you insane? What water cart?"
  
  "The one we used to put out the fire, Señor."
  
  "Good lord! What fire are you talking about, man?"
  
  "The one at your house, Señor! A candle fell and the curtains caught on fire."
  
  *"What the hell? Are you saying that my mansion is destroyed because of a candle?!"
  
"Yes, Señor Grizzly."
  
"But there's electricity at the house! What was the candle for?"
  
  *"For the funeral,Señor Grizzly."
  
"WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL??!!"
  
"Your wife's, Señor Grizzly. She showed up very late one night and I thought she
was a thief, so I hit her with your new super uber light carbon fiber-titanium
hiking poles."
  
SILENCE.............................................
  

"Ernesto, if you broke those poles, you're in deep do-do!!"