[at-l] at-l Digest, Vol 37, Issue 24

[camojack at comcast.net]

I can vouch for Sly's presence at the Gathering last month...if you can take the word of a camouflagio'd biker/hiker.
-"Camo"

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From: danandgailsc at aol.com 

> I wanted to comment on a couple of entries. First, Dan and I just finished 
> hiking the Foothills Trails during Thanksgiving. We experienced the interesting 
> temperature pattern Weathercarrot mentioned, having almost froze in shorts at 
> Laurel Valley where the temps were in the 30's just miles from where we camped 
> where the weather was much warmer. At 178, the next to the last day of our 
> trek, we met Sunset and Drew a AT thru hiker from the 80's. We heard that Sly 
> and Nighwalker were on the trail, but Frank never saw them and sad to say, we 
> never did, either. I also never saw Sly at ALDHA, and since then I've decided 
> that sightings of Sly are like Elvis sightings. One never knows.... The second 
> comment was on the book, The Last Child in the Woods. I presented at an early 
> childhood conference (SCAEYC) last year on the young child and the importance of 
> the outdoors in their development and used that book for one of my references. 
> It's definitely a must read. From the favo 
> rable comments I believe my points were well taken. Back to our backpack: the 
> weather was gorgeous and it was super to spend 4 1/2 days in the glorious 
> outdoors. We're trying out some gear to see what we want to carry when we start 
> our section hike of the CDT (Yes, Dan in a moment of weakness has agreed to 
> hike the CDT with me.) Triple Crown, here we come! Gail or Gutsy 
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