[pct-l] Breaking News!!!

[Melanie Clarke]

Dear Yoshihiro,

I'll consider that and even ask if my daughter wants to come along.  My 3rd
daughter (20 years old) is taking Japanese and is pretty good at the
language and alphabet characters.  She loves the Conan the Detective series,
Death Note and other Japanese anime'  She watches all these in Japanese.
Hiking with you and your wife might be a good "immersian program" for her to
master the language.  She is a strong distance runner so maybe we could all
help you carry your wife's things.  I am thinking about doing the first part
of the PCT this year but we'll see how things work out.  I live near San
Francisco Bay area.

Melanie

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Yoshihiro Murakami <completewalker at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Dear Melanie
>
> If you hike JMT in August, there may be a chance to drink a coffee
> with  us ( me and my wife ) . If I was JMT , I must start VVR with 80
> pounds total pack weight, because my wife cannot carry any stuff
> except her sleeping bag and mattress.
>
> I have also 4 years until retirement.
>
>
> 2011/1/5 Melanie Clarke <melaniekclarke at gmail.com>:
> > Dear Reinhold,
> >
> > I have to tell you that this has made me think twice about my hiking
> plans
> > this season.  I can't do the entire PCT until I retire 4 years from now
> so I
> > WAS thinking about doing the JMT again alone.  Then I figured that I may
> as
> > well do "sections" until I retire and then I will really know what I am
> > doing when I finally make the entire quest.  If I start with the KO this
> > year I can maybe do the first 400 miles or so and at least have some
> people
> > along the way.  That might take me to hwy 58 or so.  The conditions will
> be
> > about the same given the same time of the year etc.  So, I have to start
> my
> > logistics efforts now.
> >
> > I just can't pass on the opportunity to put that dawg, Switchback in his
> > place and teach him the meaning of respect!!!!!!
> >
> > Melanie
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Reinhold Metzger <
> reinholdmetzger at cox.net>wrote:
> >
> >> Hi gang,
> >> I understand that  "Brute  Switchback"  is in heavy training for his
> push
> >> up contest against Melanie, at the  "KO",  to defend and prove man's
> >> superiority  once and for all.
> >>
> >> JMT Reinhold
> >>
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> --
> Sincerely
> --------------- --------------------------------------
> Hiro    ( Yoshihiro Murakami )
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> Backpacking for 30 years in Japan
> 2009 JMT, the first America.
> 2010 JMT, the second America.
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