[pct-l] Early Mountain Men

[Reinhold Metzger]

  Now, if you really want a big premium put Switchback on Meadow Ed's 
shoulders with an old ankle length overcoat on them.
The Indians would be in awe and trade all their blankets and horses and 
probably a couple of squaws for them.

JMT Reinhold
The horse trader
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On 10/18/2010 9:15 AM, bighummel at aol.com wrote:
> Oh man, my true worth has now dropped to only a dozen blankets and a 
> couple horses?  Damn, don't tell my wife!
>
> I think you both have this wrong, it was actually Meadow Ed with 
> Reinhold on his shoulders with an old long coat on, making them look 
> huge!!
>
> /Greg Hummel/
>
> /"Everything in this world goes through change/
> /'cept for love and passion remain the same"/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
> To: hiker97 at aol.com; PCT <pct-l at backcountry.net>; Greg Hummel 
> <bighummel at aol.com>
> Sent: Mon, Oct 18, 2010 8:57 am
> Subject: Early Mountain Men
>
> NO, NO, NO,....Switchback,
> You have it all wrong!!!
> That was not me, that was "BIG HUMMEL" (Strider).
> Big Hummel is almost seven feet tall and the Indians would pay a 
> premium for him.
> I'm just a little guy who would not fetch much....maybe one blanket.
> Now Big Hummel, he would fetch a dozen blankets and a couple horses.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Your worthless trail companion
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>
> hiker97 at aol.com <mailto:hiker97 at aol.com> wrote:
> > Switchback replies: I remember in the early days of Sierra > 
> backpacking, we just bit off the snake's head and spit it out. No > 
> problem. This was back when the last ice age glaciers were > 
> retreating. Snake kabobs were always a treat at a deep wood's > 
> campfire. I think that is where I first met Hula-Snow Bunny Boy. A > 
> bunch of us gnarly mountainmen were discussing the Indians saying we > 
> were just another wave of Illegal Aliens invading their lands. And in 
> > walks Bunny Boy all dressed up like he is a real mountainman. We > 
> could tell right away he was really a pilgrim from the low lands. > 
> Before we could capture him and give him to the Indians as a peace > 
> offering he took off into the woods. I did not see him for years > 
> afterwards until he showed up in the PCT community --- I rest my case.