[pct-l] hitch hiking

[cmkudija at earthlink.net (Christine Kudija)]

...what's even better is that she recognized the ice axe (and hadn't read
about the series of notorious ice-axe murders in the East Bay in 1977) ;-)

TIC,

Christine "Ceanothus" Kudija

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, you can.  Boldness has a genius,
magic and power to it."
                                      Goethe
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> On my way hitching from Yosemite Valley to Berkeley to return a pack to
Eddie
> Bauer and meet with the president of the North Face and pick up a new pack
in
> 1977, I caught a ride from a pretty young lady and her 1 year old daughter
> asleep in the back seat at midnight on an on-ramp in Oakland.  I asked her
why
> she would pick up a huge crusty backpacker at that time of night risking
> herself and her daughter.  She said the ice axe on the pack spoke that I
was a
> serious outdoorsman and she likely could trust me, and . . . any white guy
standing
> on an on-ramp in Oakland at midnight clearly didn't understand the danger
he
> was in!
>
> Greg
>
>
> "You cannot travel the path until you have become the path." Guatama
Buddha
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