[pct-l] Karen's Hero

[Reinhold Metzger]

Yes Switchback & Ed,
They don't make them like  "us"  anymore.
They just don't make'm from the same metal anymore.
Quality control went out the window and the finished product is not the 
same anymore.

That may explain why women, looking for quality, are attracted to us 
like moth to a flame
and why  Mountain men like us, are in  "Hot Demand"  by the women.

JMT Reinhold
Your precision engineered trail companion, who treats his women right
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      Switchback wrote:
      Yes, back in the days when men were men and women were glad of it.
      There are only a few of us mountainmen left.
       Mountainmen were famous in the old days for taking care of their 
women
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>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:00 PM , Edward Anderson wrote:
>
> I will stand with Reinhold.  I agree with everything he wrote.  And - 
> I appreciate his service as a U.S. Marine.
> We don't need politics on this list. I have many good friends, some of 
> whom have very different religious and political views from my own - 
> and we remain good friends.
> How you think will be determined by your life experience. I'm "old 
> school". I still open doors for the ladies.
> MendoRider-Hiker
> -----------------------
>
> Reinhold wrote:
> 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"
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> 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
>