[pct-l] Karen's Hero

[Diarmaid Harmon]

I agree with Rienhold. There are probably just as many conservatives as liberals using the trail. Just as many catholics as protestants etc etc etc. 

The problems of the trail surpass politics and religion and should be kept that way. We have enough outside worries to keep and eye on and we should spend
our efforts there. 

Just remember opinions are like a**holes everyone has one.
  
Diarmaid "Irish" Harmon
irishharmon at comcast.net

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, Guinness in one hand, steak in the other, yell 'Holy Sh**, What a Ride!"


On Nov 22, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Reinhold Metzger wrote:

> [pct-l] Trail Humor
> 
> Fireweed,
> Did it ever occur to you that if you consider another person's opposing
> political vie a personal attack against you, that perhaps that other
> person may have the same opinion about you?
> It is best to keep politics out of hiking.
> Since you hiked with them for several days you must have enjoyed their
> company until politics got involved.
> 
> Why must we dislike people of different color, religion or political belief?
> 
> I  ASK  YOU  WHY???
> 
> A nice person does not suddenly become a nasty person just because you
> discover that their political or religious beliefs differ from yours.
> 
> I don't care if you are black or white, liberal or conservative, protastant,
> catholic, or none believer....it is your character and personality that will
> either make me like you or dislike you.
> The fact that your political or religious beliefs may disagree with mine will
> have no bearing on whether I like or dislike you.
> I may disagree with you....but that does not mean I have to dislike you.
> 
> I say HYOH....don't preach morality, religion or politics and don't dislike
> a person just because their religious or political believes differ from yours.
> 
> I know that this statement will probably put me under heavy fire from those
> who disagree with me or don't like what I am saying.
> But that's OK,...I have been under fire before...the type of fire that comes
> out of a barrel.
> 
> Say Fireweed, I don't see anything wrong with a man carrying his wife's
> or girlfriend's pack....if I am not mistaking it is called "CHIVALRY."
> You may, or may not know know what that means, but it was quite common
> in the older days.
> 
> Hey, I remember my first Mt. Whitney hike in 1968 or 1969 with my wife,
> hauling a monster pack and wearing combat boots.
> 
> BTW...you ain't "Hard-Core" until you hiked Whitney in combat boots.
> 
> I was a bad a$$ recently discharged Marine "Grunt" used to hauling heavy
> packs and treating my women right.
> It went against my grain to burden my recent bride with a pack
> So, everything went into a "Marine Grunt Pack" and onto my back with Karen
> (my wife) skip hoping along and me grunting all the way....that may give you
> guys a clue why they call the Marine Infantry the "GRUNTS."
> BTW...I also had to carry "Schatzy", our miniature dachshund most of the way.
> But Karen coooing into my ear..."Reinhold you are my hero"...made it all worth it.
> That is all I ever wanted to be ....."Karens Hero."
> Of course I was Mitzy's hero also.
> 
> Say guys, I understand now-a-days you guys make your women carry their own packs.
> Yes,....things have really changed from the days when Switchback and Reinhold ruled
> the trails.
> 
> JMT Reinhold
> "Karen's hero"
> -----------------------------
> 
> Fireweed wrote:
> Yes--hiker demographics are changing. Although your message was humorous
> I have found a definite incursion of more conservative political
> viewpoints on the trail. It seems that conservatives are actually
> adopting the long distance hiking venue as a way to express the good old
> Protestant work ethic. I hiked for several days on the Arizona Trail
> with a couple from Globe, Arizona. We hiked together amicably for
> several days. But on one night the discussion turned to politics and I
> was shocked at how far apart out viewpoints were--the man pontificated
> on so many right wing Rush Limbaugh party lines (while his wife cowered
> in their tent, not taking part in the "discussion") that it was
> tantamount to a personal attack on me and what I believed. I left camp
> the next morning early and never hiked with them again. I felt sorry for
> his wife who was constantly berated by him on the trail with his demands
> to carry her pack because he didn't think she was hiking fast enough.
> 
> I was used to thru hikers having a more progressive bent, but this is
> not so anymore. It definitely isn't so in the rural areas that we have
> to traverse to get rides and services--I will face this in March when I
> do the Grand Enchantment Trail in Arizona and New Mexico. Luckily,
> people are kind when they don't get to the point of having to indulge in
> their political viewpoints.
> 
> --Fireweed
> 
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