[pct-l] Hiker Heaven, Public Warning, and Thong Caper

[Hiker97 at aol.com]

Well, I stopped by Hiker Heaven this morning to deliver my donated Garcia  
bear canister.  As a Valentine's Day gift I filled it with M&M candy  packages.  
There must have been a million of them in that big  canister.
 
I figured that all the Thru Hikers coming along would get some  M&M's.  But 
BuzzSaw says to me as I am playing with their dogs and  L-Rod is in the bedroom 
packing for a trip, that she loves M&M's and he  would be surprised if there 
were 3 or 4 packs left for the Thru Hikers.   Later when L-Rod walks into the 
room she has a package of M&M's in her  hand.
 
This is a PUBLIC WARNING: If a Thru Hiker arrives at Hiker Heaven and  does 
not get some M&M's, you know what happened to them.  SOMEBODY DID  NOT SHARE!!
 
We went to breakfast together down at the local eatery.  Lots of  fun.  
BuzzSaw and I both left a generous tip for the blond sever.   Heh, heh, heh.
 
Then we each headed to Long Beach and Andy's presentation.  It was  very good 
and interesting.  What a hike.  Amazing.  L-Rod told  him about the thong 
thread on the PCT-L.  Seems he was sabotaged.   Someone else put his name on the 
thongs.  I will let L-Rod fill you  in.  I liked the story because it sounded 
like something I would do to a  hiker, say Reinhold.  Andy was great to meet 
and had even heard me and  mentioned Reinhold too.  I did not know if I should 
be proud or  embarrassed.  :-)
 
I showed BuzzSaw and L-Rod my $300 monocular.  BuzzSaw really liked  it.  It 
was a great day with lots of stories and copious amounts of  fun.
 
Faithfully reported by your humble servant, Switchback the Trail Pirate 
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till  sundown, 
for going out, I found, was really going in." ---- John  Muir




**************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music.     
(http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025
48)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/pct-l/attachments/20080209/22553fe7/attachment.html