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Sittin on Katahdin today
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maybe i'm misremembering, but isn't that one of hb's friends from last year?
no sitting around for me. see my current avatar; katahdin closed, me and one other thru hiker allowed up the mountain. everyone else sitting in town waiting for the mountain to open.2,000 miler -
max.patch wrote:
maybe i'm misremembering, but isn't that one of hb's friends from last year?
no sitting around for me. see my current avatar; katahdin closed, me and one other thru hiker allowed up the mountain. everyone else sitting in town waiting for the mountain to open.
MP, that is what I remember also.
So how did you and the other guy convince them to let you go up?The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Starfail?Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Seuss
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The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Astro wrote:
max.patch wrote:
maybe i'm misremembering, but isn't that one of hb's friends from last year?
no sitting around for me. see my current avatar; katahdin closed, me and one other thru hiker allowed up the mountain. everyone else sitting in town waiting for the mountain to open.
MP, that is what I remember also.
So how did you and the other guy convince them to let you go up?
alan and i went to the ranger station in the morning to check the status. the ranger was going to hike up k that day to see if they could reopen it tomorrow, but since we were thru-hikers he said we could do it instead. (no special treatment because we were thru-hikers; he said that since we walked from georgia we probably pretty much knew what we were doing.) we were required to report back at the ranger station when we returned, and we were required to carry our full packs. he inspected our gear to make sure it was adequate. we had to take our full packs because "if one of you slips and breaks a leg we can't rescue you until tomorrow and you won't survive the night up there without your sleeping bad and shelter." so up we went, had the mountain to ourselves on a gorgeous day with an incredibly deep blue sky. great way to end the trip.2,000 miler -
That was great!I may grow old but I'll never grow up.
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max.patch wrote:
Astro wrote:
max.patch wrote:
maybe i'm misremembering, but isn't that one of hb's friends from last year?
no sitting around for me. see my current avatar; katahdin closed, me and one other thru hiker allowed up the mountain. everyone else sitting in town waiting for the mountain to open.
MP, that is what I remember also.
So how did you and the other guy convince them to let you go up?
alan and i went to the ranger station in the morning to check the status. the ranger was going to hike up k that day to see if they could reopen it tomorrow, but since we were thru-hikers he said we could do it instead. (no special treatment because we were thru-hikers; he said that since we walked from georgia we probably pretty much knew what we were doing.) we were required to report back at the ranger station when we returned, and we were required to carry our full packs. he inspected our gear to make sure it was adequate. we had to take our full packs because "if one of you slips and breaks a leg we can't rescue you until tomorrow and you won't survive the night up there without your sleeping bad and shelter." so up we went, had the mountain to ourselves on a gorgeous day with an incredibly deep blue sky. great way to end the trip.
MP, great story, thanks for sharing. Was it already in October?The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
2,000 miler
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