[pct-l] Breaking News!!!

[Vermilion Valley Resort]

Huh?  I wasn't at VVR last summer.... it's the one year since Jim bought 
the place that I didn't go...

Bill

Reinhold Metzger wrote:
> Say Bill,
> Why did you call me  "The Trouble Maker"  when I picked up my 
> resupplies at  VVR  last summer?
> I am hurt and deeply offended....I  DEMAND  A  APOLOGY!!!!!!!
> I know Switchback is the list's  "enemy #1"....but I should at least 
> rank  #2....not just merely a "Trouble Maker".
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Enemy  #2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On 1/5/2011 7:20 PM, Vermilion Valley Resort wrote:
>> Hiro,
>>
>> I cringe to think of the "English" you're learning at VVR ;)
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> Yoshihiro Murakami wrote:
>>> Dear Melanie
>>>
>>> My present plan (might be changed) is:
>>>
>>> 7/23 San Francisco
>>> 7/24 buy some foods, SIM card , gas canister
>>> 7/25 go to Yosemite
>>> 8/7-9  or 8/10 stay at   VVR
>>>
>>> The best place of language learning (Japanese / English) is VVR( or
>>> San Francisco ). I learned at this place listening and speaking from
>>> the hikers free of charge. We do not want your or your daughter's help
>>> to carry our loads. If I was helped by you, my enjoyment will
>>> decrease.
>>>
>>> I am a descendant of pirate of Japan sea, so I belong to the bad boys
>>> as like  the American gangs. I might have bad educational powere.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/1/5 Melanie Clarke<melaniekclarke at gmail.com>  <mailto:melaniekclarke at gmail.com>:
>>>> 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>  <mailto: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>  <mailto: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>  <mailto: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 )
>>>>> Blogshttp://completewalker.blogspot.com/
>>>>> Photohttp://picasaweb.google.co.jp/CompleteWalker/
>>>>> Backpacking for 30 years in Japan
>>>>> 2009 JMT, the first America.
>>>>> 2010 JMT, the second America.
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------
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