[pct-l] '04 Thru-Hiker Gear Review

[kborski at yahoo.com (Karen Borski)]

--- Mike Saenz <msaenz@mve-architects.com> wrote:

> Ohhhhhhh......I just can't resist!!!!!
> 
> Born, raised and STILL a Californian...
> I pity the poor souls who have to dream about
> mountains miraculously
> springing up in their back yards...
> Or oceans, or deserts, or wide fertile valleys, or
> islands, great
> rivers...San Francisco Bay....giant
> sequoias...Yosemite...Whitney...Death Valley...
> Oilcans!...The PCT!!!
> 
> We get to see them all within a few hours drive of
> each other!!!!!
> 
> Damn if that didn't smack of flagrant elitisms....
> 
> Unabashedly proud to be a Californian, where from my
> office desk (after
> I drive through the Cleveland National Forest and
> Santa Ana Mountains on
> my morning commute), I can see the Pacific Ocean,
> Santa Catalina Island,
> the skyline of LA, the coastal hills of Newport
> Coast and Laguna, The
> snow on The San Gabriel's, and, for now, actual
> water flowing in the
> Santa Ana River!
> 
> I just COULDN'T resist!
> 
> ;)
> 
> M i c h a e l   S a e n z
> McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Inc.
> A r c h i t e c t u r e    P l a n n i n g    I n t
> e r i o r s
> w  w  w  .  m  v  e  -  a  r  c  h  i  t  e  c  t  s
>  .  c  o  m
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
> [mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On
> Behalf Of Ron Smith
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:02 PM
> To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: [BULK] - RE: Re: [pct-l] Kansas City
> tourism
> 
> If you can't find anything but fountains and roses
> in Kansas, you're
> looking in the wrong place. Ask Dorothy. As a kid
> growing up on the flat
> Texas plains I frequently dreamed that mountains had
> miraculously sprung
> up in my back yard. This is one of the reasons I
> always see magic, in
> addition to geology and sweat, in the hills, crests,
> and mountains I
> visit. I pity the poor souls who had to grow up in a
> mountain state!
> -Ron
> > 
> > although, to be completely accurate, the only REAL
> Kansas Citians :)
> hail from the Missouri side......at least that's
> what I've always been
> told, having had the good luck to be born there!
> There are fountains and
> roses! Don't forget Loose Park and the famous Rose
> Garden. (OK -- it's
> been a while since I've visited, and that's all I
> remember....but it was
> great!)
> 
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