[pct-l] Amazing People

[chelin at teleport.com (Sharon & Chuck Chelin)]

Good evening, Donna,

I was interested in your report of young Scrambler.  My view of her effort
is similar to yours.  Her perseverance is laudable and unique, and I can
only wish my own daughters would have had such dedication at that age.
However, I reserve the term "amazing" for people who willingly and
repeatedly share their life and their home with a rabble of hiker-trash that
is scruffy, odiferous, and eats like a plague of locusts.  You madam Angle,
and your husband, are amazing, the rest of us are merely interesting.

Bless you.

Steel-Eye

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dsaufley@sprynet.com>
To: <montedodge@msn.com>; <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 3:11 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Lindy Watch


> Monte,
>
> I don't know for certain, but when I was up in Kennedy Meadows a few
weekends ago, hikers said Lindy got off the trail way down south.  He didn't
stop at our place, but then, I figured he was blasting through and all.  I
was quite surprised to hear the news.  May or may not be true.
>
> As for Scrambler, (Mary), the 10 year old out with her mom and dad, she
was doing fantastic at mile 464, and the word was she was continuing to
doing great north of Kennedy Meadows.  This little girl is a
dyed-in-the-wool thru hiker.  She's been on long-distance outings since she
was a baby, and did Section I with a pack when she was six.  She's completed
the Tahoe Rim Trail (twice), and can converse with you on pack weights or
trail conditions like she was 25.
>
> I have never met such an amazing child -- I'm certain there was an adult
in that little body.  And not just any adult, but a thru-hiker -- the best
kind.   Scrambler had some 20s under her belt already, and her mother
admitted that they were fast approaching the point where her parents weren't
going to be able to keep up with her (a big concern for them).
>
> Interestingly, the impression I got wasn't that they were doing the trail
so Mary would be the youngest ever (although I believe she will be), but
because they feared that they as parents were getting older and wouldn't be
able to do it with her.  It was quite touching, really.  Everyone should
have parents like this.
>
> As long as I live, I will never forget my impressions of Mary.  I believe
she is unique in this world, and I feel lucky to have met her and to call
her my friend.
>
> -=Donna Saufley=-
>
>
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