[pct-l] ''Ode Coyote''

[Steve Courtway]

Is it possible to "skip" 5ft. of the CDT ?

kind of hard to skip when you're blazing ?   must have been an established 
portion hahaha.....

s.c.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhold Metzger" <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
To: <pct-l at mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:21 AM
Subject: [pct-l] ''Ode Coyote''


> Hi gang,
> I spend Thanksgiving at Pismo Beach, by San Luis Obispo, an decided to 
> hike
> out to Point Sale by Vandenberg Air Force Base. Spectacular scenery, sand
> dunes, an isolated beaches.
> On my way back I saw an old backpacker, with a white beard, scrambling up 
> a
> sand dune.
> My first reaction was it's ''Billy Goat,'' so I waited for him to catch up
> with me.
> Turned out it was ''Ode Coyote'', his current trail name, his old trail 
> name
> was ''Squid or Squish'' or something like that.
> We walked and talked for a while until he set up camp for the night at the
> top of a ridge with a panoramic 360 degree view of the beaches an dunes.
> ''Ode Coyote'' goes back a long way,and like ''Billy Goat'', is retired 
> and
> spends all his time roaming around in the wilderness. He knows many off 
> the
> old timers and  attended the earlier
> ALDAH-West meetings until he developed a anti-establishment mentality and
> decided he had nothing to prove  anymore and just withdrew to go solo.
> He purposely skipped 5 feet of the CDT as a protest against the Triple 
> Crown
> award which, he claims, is for glory and publicity hounds not for hikers 
> who
> hike for the pure joy of hiking.
> I disagreed with him of course, but his mind is set.
> It turned out ''Ode Coyote'' is doing his second ''Coastal Trail'' through
> hike SOB in 7 month.
>
> DO  ANY  OFF  YOU  OLD  TIMERS  REMEMBER  ''ODE  COYOTE''?
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Another of your ''Old Timer'' trail companion
> P.S. ''Old Timers'' are becoming an endangered species
>
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