[pct-l] Great News for hikers with extensive backpacking experience

[Stephen Adams]

This is a really good idea ! Though the requirements for being the  
temple scribe will be  in part, at least for a couple weeks, painful.   
We'll have to get confirmation regarding Reinhold, but I am quite  
confident that with a little Jack Daniels and my little "Classic"  
Reinhold and myself should be able to perform the necessary procedure.
On Nov 13, 2009, at 8:12 AM, hiker97 at aol.com wrote:

> Yes, I am going to set the most supported PCT record.  This is my  
> goal.  But I would be glad to on the staff.  I will be the official  
> chronicler and diarist.   I will be the keeper of the parchment and  
> quill.  Later I will make big bucks on a book.
>
> Switchback
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Adams <reddirt2 at earthlink.net>
> To: Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
> Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net; Hiker97 <hiker97 at aol.com>
> Sent: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 11:16 pm
> Subject: Re: Great News for hikers with extensive backpacking  
> experience
>
> Oh, of course. I should have known this. But it appears we may have  
> lost Switchback to his impulse to make a super supported thru hike  
> complete with soft chair and weight gain program. So if we can't  
> entice him to join our highly experienced staff I can probably  
> figure out how to boil water.
>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Reinhold Metzger wrote:
>
> > Yes,...I agree.
> > I think we should only accept good looking hiker babes....I don't  
> > feel like babysitting homely looking dudes.
> > I don't know about you, but I like them with long shapely >  
> legs.....that is strictly from a hiking point of view of course.
> > It has been my experience that hiker babes with long shapely legs  
> > make better hiking companions....I mean better hikers.
> >
> > JMT Reinhold
> > Your shapely legs loving trail companion
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > Stephen Adams wrote:
> >> I'm in. And since we have reasonable time to correspond regarding  
> >> pricing, perhaps the first thing we should consider is client >>  
> criteria...
> >>
> >> On Nov 11, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Reinhold Metzger wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is Great News!!!....since Andy will not be guiding the  
> "High >>> Sierra Route Trek" perhaps Stephen and I can be the guides.
> >>> Stephen and I have been criss-crossing the Sierra for many years  
> >>> and off hand I can not think of anybody that knows the Sierra  
> >>> better than Stephen and I.
> >>> And, since Stephen and I are "far" better looking than Andy, we  
> >>> could demand a premium rate...perhaps as high as $500/day.
> >>> Hiker babes will not blink an eye to be guided through the  
> Sierra >>> by handsome guides like Stephen and I.
> >>> Perhaps we hire Switchback to be the cook.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I can see the headlines already....for a once in a lifetime  
> >>> experience, "Experience the High Sierra" with Switchback,
> >>> JMT Reinhold and Stephen.
> >>>
> >>> I bet the phone will ring of the hook and we will be backlogged  
> >>> for a year or two.
> >>>
> >>> JMT Reinhold
> >>> The most handsome guide of the Sierra
> >>> -----------------------------------------
> >>> If Skurka is guiding the Sierra High Route it¹s not going to be  
> >>> next year as he is doing this: http://andrewskurka.com/AK10/index.php 
> >>> >/From my November Adventure Mag Issue, page 54: /Thru-hike the  
> >>> Sierra with Southern Yosemite Mountain Guides and Andrew Skurka,  
> >>> on the 195 mile Sierra High Route. Price: $6,495, Length 26 days  
> >>> (or $250 per day for 7.5 miles per day). Limit 6 hikers. Steve  
> >>> Roper, the SHR "route founder" says in his guide intro that he  
> >>> really considered pros and cons before he wrote his guide; he  
> >>> wanted the High Route to remain pristine. I hope a party of  
> eight >>> hikers camping every 7.5 miles, on average, treads  
> lightly. Marcia
> >>
> >>
> >