[at-l] ALDHA 25

[greyowl at rcn.com]

Actually I wanted to go hiking after watching the video.  I usually stay away from get togethers like the gathering because I am very uncomfortable around large crowds of people and also because I am very shy and lack in the social graces.  I am trying to improve the latter, but unfortunately I come off as a dirty old man when talking to the women and as a babbling idiot when I am around men.

It was beautiful this morning, cold and crisp, and unfortunately cloudy though they are gone now.  I had contemplated going on a hike this morning instead of going to work, however I have a lot of bills to pay.  Instead I will go for my noontime walk.  Hope to get to the AT this weekend, or at least to a local park for a quick hike.

Cheers,

Bob




---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:42:03 -0400
>From: "Marsha" <atrailhiker at adelphia.net>  
>Subject: Re: [at-l] ALDHA 25  
>To: "Gary Ticknor" <garyticknor at starpower.net>
>Cc: <greyowl at rcn.com>, <at-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
>
>After previously viewing this DVD many times before the Gathering, I decided 
>to stand in the back of the auditorium at the Gathering while this video was 
>being shown.
>
>One person in particular (yes from this list) was sitting in the back row. I 
>thought he was laughing, when I got a little closer, I saw he was sobbing. 
>Then I looked around and saw other men wiping their tears away.
>
>It was touching.
>
>Marsha
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Gary Ticknor" <garyticknor at starpower.net>
>To: "Marsha" <atrailhiker at adelphia.net>
>Cc: <greyowl at rcn.com>; <at-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
>Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [at-l] ALDHA 25
>
>
>> Good Lord, Marsha!
>>
>> Bob, there's not a word of that so.
>>
>> Grown men cry indeed.
>>
>> But it was an amazing video. WeatherCarrot pulled it together brilliantly.
>>
>> - Greenbriar
>>
>> Marsha wrote:
>>> Yes, it was an AMAZING video.
>>>
>>> There were tears in the audience when this was shown. Grown men.
>>>
>>> Marsha
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: <greyowl at rcn.com>
>>> To: <at-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
>>> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:49 PM
>>> Subject: [at-l] ALDHA 25
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I am almost speechless.  It was along hard day at work and I was 
>>>> exhausted
>>>> when I arrived home.  There was a packagefrom ALDHA in the mail.  It was 
>>>> a
>>>> CD, was this the ALDHA 25 CD or was it something to do with the 
>>>> companion?
>>>> I found out after dinner and I have just finished the ALDHA 25 CD. 
>>>> There were
>>>> a lot of people that I knew including one that I did not even know 
>>>> belonged to
>>>> ALDHA.  A truly amazing video.  I would have loved to be at the meeting 
>>>> this
>>>> year, hoever my wife and I had othe commitments.  Maybe next year.
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>