Ha!&nbsp; Good answer Sly!&nbsp; Interesting article.&nbsp; In my memory he took bread and WINE on his treks.&nbsp; Must be the caffeine that got him past that scary climb.&nbsp; Hopefully there was enough water along his paths to replace what he lost to dehydration.&nbsp;&nbsp; I still wouldn't recommend it to PCT hikers.<br><br><b><i>Slyatpct@aol.com</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544" name="GENERATOR"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3"> <div> <div>In a message dated 11/12/2007 2:26:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,  gailpl2003@yahoo.com writes:</div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">We'll    never know how John
 Muir, Weston the pedestrian, and so many other famous    walkers survived out on the trails (or lack thereof) with no caffeine    ........hmmmmm.</font></blockquote></div> <div></div> <div>-----------------------------------</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Maybe because he didn''t... survive without caffine, that is.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1525/is_n6_v79/ai_15929305">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1525/is_n6_v79/ai_15929305</a></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Sly</div></font><br><br><br><div><font style="color: black; font-family: ARIAL,SAN-SERIF; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><hr style="margin-top: 10px;">See what's new at <a title="http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" href="http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" target="_blank">AOL.com</a> and <a
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