[pct-l] Desert Shirt & Skuzzy Rat

[Cat Nelson]

Obviously you guys are fashion savvy. Is there a trail trash fashion show
at the kick off? Then you could really pony strut like true scuzz bag trail
trash! Wish I could be there.
Sincerely
Thrift Store Junkyard,
Cat
sagegirl51 at gmail.com
WA Trail Angel
253-861-3425
On Apr 16, 2013 9:34 PM, "Reinhold Metzger" <reinholdmetzger at cox.net> wrote:

> Mags,....you "Scuzzy Rat".
> You look almost as scuzzy as I do when I'm on the trail.
> I am far better looking than you are and the only reason you look
> snappier on the trail
> than I do, is because you wear fancy, snappy $5.00 dress shirts.
> I gave up buying expensive $5.00 hiking shirts many years ago.
> Now days my hiking wardrobe consists of the finest garments available at
> stores like
> Goodwill, St. Vincent De Paul, Amvets, Salvation Army and at .50 cents
> per shirt I
> don't have to worry about them getting dirty, rolling around in the dirt.
> Besides,....DIRT IS GOOD FOR YOU!!!
>
> It has been my observation that scrappy, ratty looking hikers, like you,
> are more likely
> to finish the trail than the snappy, fashion minded hikers.
> They look real nice and fashionable at the start but after a few weeks,
> after the fancy
> garments are dirty and in tatters, they look almost as scuzzy and ratty
> as we do.
>
> Like you said, there is nothing wrong with looking  "SCUZZY & RATTY"  on
> the trail.
>
> Now Switchback, he is a different breed of a cat and you will never get
> him to agree
> with our way of thinking that looking ratty on the trail is OK.
> He likes to look real snappy and fashionable on the trail and does not
> mind spending
> $75-100 on a shirt to achieve that goal.
> You should see him when he comes strutting down the trail in his fashion
> designer
> wardrobe, fuzzy pink camp slippers, hand free umbrella and solar powered
> fan,
> all perfumed up and smelling like a rose.
>
> Yes Sir,.....Switchback is a snappy looking dude on the trail.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Your scrappy, ratty, trail companion
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Mags wrote:
> "A hiking shirt need not be fancy.
> Even a polyester/cotton men's dress  shirt will work.
> That's what Mags seems to like anyway." ....and here's my "review"
> http://www.pmags.com/gear-review-thrift-store-dress-shirt
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