[at-l] my Georgia hike...

[David Addleton]

beards are wonderful . . .

On Nov 17, 2007 10:37 PM, Sloetoe <sloetoe at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- Nightwalker <nightwalker.at at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey P'Toey, do you remember this list that you
> > posted last year?
> >
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > You know you're camping in cold weather if/when:
> >
> ### Yeahhhh. That's a good list.[he looks away
> wistfully]
>
> Coulda added another one -- from Felix re beards: "You
> nkow your cold weather camping when you measure the
> weather by the ice in your beard." This would be a tad
> harder for me, perhaps, cuz I am *always* going to
> sleep with thickish clothes on, and never really
> notice the ice that way. I notice it in the daytime
> only when it accumulates on one side over another
> (like the lee side when you're walking perpendicular
> to a prevailing wind). The wind curls around your
> face, and the moisture of your breath loses energy
> right as its laps and twirls against your beard: poof:
> frosted Santa. But only on one side, so you get these
> swaying impulses from one side of your face, or the
> wind catches it, or your clothes.
>
> Beards are wonderful.
>
> ohsanta bin hikin
>
> Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
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