[at-l] The Long and Hard Trail

[Mark Hudson]

So your next take on the Cohos is to do it in winter? On skis? Cool! Just
not THIS winter, it would be WAY too easy <g>

On 1/3/07, Sloetoe <sloetoe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Mark Hudson <mvhudson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Jan is whining again??? <vbg>
> >
> > You want to get various body parts handed to you,
> > the first time I did the LT I went southbound.
> ### ... a great description, Skeets. Mr. Magic and da
> Bug are right here, and even though they were 6 when
> they did the northern 90 miles, they say "You Wimpy
> People! The LT isn't that hard! You're
> wwwwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmpppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
> (OK, so, I need to remind them about the heartache of
> descending JaY Peak in the pitch dark in a driving
> rain storm, or having to wake them up to take
> mouthfuls of food half the nights we were out, or
> ..... Will get back to y'all!)
> Magic rejoins with: "wiiiimmmmmmmppppppppyyyyyy."
>
> > Now I suppose I have to read Jan's book just to find
> > out how bad she's whining.... <lol>
> ### Outside of dem YoungHikerMen's comments, Dadtoe
> sez "Just callin' 'em like she sees 'em!"
>
> > (Of course if we REALLY wanted to listen to whining
> > we could get Sloetoe to write about the Cohos Trail
> <g>)
> ### Bug sed (he's going out the door to play
> wiffleball in his shirtsleeves) "Tell them to do it in
> the winterrrr, on skisssss!" It seemed more of an
> imploring, really. Hmmmm. Did I tell y'all of how most
> of the skin on the bottom of his feet separated from
> the flesh, from sodden boots for weeks-at-a-time? When
> we hiked north out of Pinkham
> (Wildcat/Carter/Moriah/Mahoosucs/etc), the going was
> so much EASIER.
> Heh. The best way to do the Cohos? Forget there's a
> trail. ("No trail to lose!") Pick your route as you
> bushwack. ("Don't like the route? CHANGE IT.") Easy
> 'nuff.
>
> cohosundonetoe
>
> Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
>    Pro Pondera Et Meliora.
>