[pct-l] Retired Backpackers & THE COMING REVOLUTION

[reinholdmetzger at cox.net (Reinhold Metzger)]

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From: Reinhold Metzger
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net ; Carolyn Eddy
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:00 PM
Subject: NEW REVOLUTIONARY ULTRA LIGHT CONCEPT


Carolyn,  Your strategy is working.  Hiking is good medicine and I sincerely
hope that you will be hiking with us for many more years to come.
If I remember right, Meadow Mary, Billy Goat's wife,  during a conversation
at Kennedy Meadow, told me that she had health problems that seemed to go
away after she took up hiking.  And she is so greatful that she stays
involved and helps backpackers whenever she can because hiking has really
uplifted her life.
It seems that hiking is doing the same for you ..........so don't ever stop
hiking.......

And Carolyn, don't look at it like you have limited time.  Look at it like
you will be hiking out of this valley, over the hill into another more
beautiful valley where the grass is greener, the air is fresher, and the
water is cooler and where your will be eventually reunited with your other
trail companions and goats.  And who knows,  at 65 I may just beat you into
that other valley and be there to meet you.
Just between you and me,  I don't like sleeping with chickens either.

JMT Reinhold
Your hopeless dreamer and trail companion