[pct-l] The trail will provide

[Reinhold Metzger]

Yes Switchback,.....I remember.
However, it was not bricks I was hauling....it was granite blocks that I 
cut by hand at, what is now known as the ''GOLDEN  STAIRCASE'',  one of 
the most brutal sections on the JMT, at the northern approach to 
''Mather Pass''  and then hauled them all the way to ''Muir 
Pass''....that is how I got so wiry.

Next time you struggle up the ''GOLDEN   STAIRCASE''  you will have the 
satisfaction of knowing  it was build by JMT Reinhold.

They should install a brass plate stating  ''Golden Staircase''  build 
by JMT Reinhold.

JMT Reinhold
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On 1/7/2011 6:34 PM, hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
> Timonthy writes: The Muir Hut was designed for the Sierra Club by 
> Henry Gutterson.  As a child I lived in a house he designed in 
> Berkeley.  And yes it has a fireplace.  Not quite as rustic as the 
> hut, it is true.  He was a proponent of the arts and crafts movement 
> and that home, which was built in 1915, exemplifies it.
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> Switchback replies: Yes, I remember helping build it.  Reinhold used 
> to come by to try to pick up extra money to fund his Sierra trips.  He 
> carried bricks for us.  That is how he become so wiry.