[at-l] at-l Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4
Richard Mann
rkmcoder at yahoo.com
Mon May 9 12:39:53 CDT 2016
> Maybe we could get Wingfoot to join again....
>
> ....just imagine. And, Pittsburgh... and...
Imagine that after all these years - me an Dan in the same post again! Now all you have to do is add Baltimore Jack in there and you'd have a trifecta...
Met Jack in Port Clinton in 1997 - he blasted me for 1) driving hikers to a pay phone - he said they were 'hikers' and should have walked to the phone, and 2) for talking about trail maintainers on the at-l (forgot now what I had said) without ever having actually done any maintenance. I took number 2 to heart and did trail maintenance with Bob Peoples in the Laurel Gorge for a few years in a row. Now I can talk about trail maintenance. Got nothing to say...
I remember Jack blasting us all on at-l for slamming Dan, specifically for some of us saying that Dan actually did not do all of the thru-hikes that he claimed. Jack said Dan was a man of integrity...
Anyway, Jack became a good friend to us at at-l. I will miss him...
Felix, I'll be in Vietnam over the summer. Send me your new address...
Good to see so many of the old (and I use that term literally) folks still on the at-l. Great that we are still here even though other technology has passed on by. I haven't hiked on the trail since November 2007 when I went from AFSP to Three Forks. Short, cold hike...
My wife and I drove to Pittsburgh this past fall from our home in Florida, and we did stop at the trail at Kimberley Creek so that I could touch a white blaze. There was a sign , 'Do not leave deer carcasses'. That is my new philosophy of life...
Pittsburgh
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