[at-l] Pack weights of yesteryear

[Rogene R. Beers]

 How many of those who hiked 30 years ago are still doing so?

I had a dream, life changed this dream.

  Camped but not backpaced before marriage, the man promised to do some
backpack and tent camping but soon refesed.  Only place we actualy tented
was in the finger lakes in about 1974.
He did go camping sort of with a pop up camper in fort Myers with electricty
and water etc.
Said he changed his mind for hiking doing bivwack in Army training. Anyway
he's long gone now.

Found the womenhikers group after going to my first gatheing(thinks
Hummingbird for this) in 2001 and was invited on a hike with Coosa and later
Jan Lightshoe's shakedown women's hike..

Now I have a little over 125 miles on the At done.
All the kids education paid for and my home and car.
Had planned on hiking the At in 2005 but my sister pulled a fast one on my
elderly mother details inapprorpiate for this list but that's taken a year
to sort of resolve and bunches of money to courts and lawyers..

Found and married my old HS buddy in May.  He's a hiker too! Hope to
resurect the dream of thru hiking
when we can aford it.  In the mean time short trips will have to do.
Then I'm thinking of the JMT, CDT, PCT.  Siwtzerland would be nice too when
if I can retire.

Speaking of retirement,
Well have ya all heard Coosa's last day at work is
this Friday at 2PM.

Congradualtions gal!

CC Wayah
CC for my old trial name of Chocholte Chip(the trailname name Coosa gave me)
and
Wayah for asking why all the time and Wayah also means Wolf in Cherokee that
is a bald on the At.

It was Black Wolf that I married this Springs.  My maiden name was Wolfer.
Therefor..... my tnew
trail name!
.
CC Wayah
Rogene
OR just plain WHY?











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> > How many of those who hiked 15 years ago are still doing so?
>
> Church summer camp, the then new wilderness group, summer of 1967.  I knew
I
> wanted to backpack before that, but that was the first time I was able to
do
> it.
>
> 3 nights of which were spent backpacking.  Yukon packframes, Yucca pack
> bags, blankets and a plastic dropcloth for me.  Some of the kids had high
> dollar down bags and fancy tents.  After the storm, I needed no drying
out!
> One of my early lessons in, "it's not what you've got, it's how you use
it."
>
> There have been some dry years, what with high school, an ex-wife who
> thought you needed a RV to camp, children who learned otherwise, injuries,
> etc.  Last summer I knocked off Springer Mountain to Fontana Dam.  (I am
> near or over 25% of AT covered now.)  It felt good, but I ran out of time
> before I ran out of desire.  Back in school again now and missing the
woods
> already.
>
> Black Wolfe,
> Bruce W.
>
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