[pct-l] Sleeping Pads

[Kevin Cook]

Since I'll be 40 on the trail, I'll take my naps without any reservations
about whether I'm "old enough" :)
Some of the best naps I've ever had were laying on a piece of granite in The
Sierra :)  I'm looking forward to repeating that pleasure.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the 60's the saying was, "never trust anyone over 30."  We were a pretty
> angry lot with the state of the country, civil rights and anti war riots,
> and all that pressure for a "counter culture."  But now I'd just turn that
> around, and say that anybody over 30 aught to be considered for an afternoon
> geezer nap, even if they don't really qualify for geezer status.  Geezerhood
> is probably a personal thing.  I know I hiked most of the way with people
> under 30, except for Smiles, Mango and a few others, and I felt my age when
> I saw day after day the speed of these young whipper snappers.  God they
> were wonderful.  My stamina was such that I always caught up with them, and
> then didn't often need to stop at all and left them behind.  But they always
> caught up again and I'd be eating their dust trails.
>
> So for me geezerhood came when I saw that their really was a physical
> difference in how our bodies worked.  Plus I needed a nap, and they just
> partied on!
>
> Shroomer
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