[pct-l] Adventures of ''Peaches & Grouchy''

[Reinhold Metzger]

Awwhhh,
Come on Switchback, we love you just the way you are and would not want 
you to change in any way.
Besides, being more buoyant has it's advantages in backpacking.

1. Reduced risk of accidental drowning....(a skinny scout almost drowned 
after falling in the creek with his pacck due to lack of buoyancy).
2. You sleep warmer at night...(less cold weather cloth means lighter pack).
3. Pre-stocked calories also result in lighter packs because the 
pre-stocked, pre-chewed calories are already there, just waiting to be 
burned.

I would think the ''Ultra-lighters'' would be somewhat envious off  
you....I, for one, have been trying, unsuccessfully, to lower my pack 
weight by
incorporating your strategy of  ''Pre-Stocked Pre-Chewed Calories''  
but, for some reason, my inferior designed body does not know how to do 
that.

JMT Reinhold
The envious one

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Hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
> Unsupported Reinhold writes: "Floating down the river with 
> Switchback", Grouchy responds in a matter
> of fact voice.
> "Ohhh good, Switchback is a good one to float with...he is very 
> buoyant," Peaches responds with her innocent voice.
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> I remember life preservers were named a "Mae West" for certain 
> anatomical reasons of Ms. West.  Now after all these years we finally 
> have a male counterpart.  The "Switchback".  Again for an obvious and 
> legendary attribute of any normal PCT mountainman and hard-core 
> backpacker.  I never thought of it as a life preserver device, but we 
> mountainmen are what we are.
>  
> I am a little bit embarrassed about this.  I humbly thank you for this 
> honor.
>  
> Switchback the Attribute and Life Preserver
>
>
>
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