To all 98ers/99ers & other AT friends:            

Sending this msg a day early because I am off early on Thursday, u can get at mailto:fannypack96@hotmail.com between Thursday & Monday, 12/27/99.  Have a great holiday.  Hey SIGHTSEER '98, how is Costa Rica???????

Big G, GOOD LUCK & hope to see ya soon (this is the only weekly msg u will get from me since I do not want to FILL your INBOX...


Use REPLYALL when responding so I can get your msgs at work: mailto:datkinso@att.com & on the road mailto:fannypack96@hotmail.com
   
>>>> 1) If u are receiving this msg & do NOT want to receive these msgs, just e-mail me & I will NOT send these msgs to u again.

>>>> 2) Also if u want your e-mail, name, etc added (or corrected) at the bottom of the future msgs, the let me know.  Hopefully we will be able to continue to share these msgs with each other.

>>>> 3) NOTICE: To reduce the size of our msgs, in the future, we will try to remember to send the list of addresses only the 1st send of every other month.   We are working & taking suggestions on how to improve these communiqués, pls give us your suggestions.  We enjoy sharing these msgs with u & hope to make it an enjoyable experience for u.
        - FannyPack & Lucy & Roger
   
  I. Questions or inquiries or info to share:
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added/changed the following names to our list:
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  Groove    - Jim Bright -mailto:jimsgroove@hotmail.com  99GA2ME - corrected lastname from Bryant to Bright
  Slugger - Evan Berland -mailto:eberland@politicalwag.com -1999GA2ME (03/23->10/08/99)-added 12/21/99
  PT aka Prehistoric Tony- Tony Nitz -mailto:PT@HikerTrash.net -1997ME2VA -added 12/21/99 http://www.hikertrash.net & hiked in 99 with Pilot - see his website (very interesting guy, just as are most hikers, right?)

      does anyone have an e-mail for:
Sweet Blood -Rodney Robinson- mailto:summit@ioa.com  99GA2ME -e-mail doesn't work 12/16/99

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-----Original Message-----
From: Coosa [mailto:coosa@alltel.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 9:14 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: Fw: Question re AT Hike-rephrased

FP:

Please place this on your email list.  I am not going to make any additional comments, at this time.   Hike Yer Own Hike.   Check out the website section of news reports on http://www.ndi4all.org ---- Coosa
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MSG from 98ers:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan & Julie Weber [mailto:djweber@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 10:49 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: Article Re: Dr. Bronner's soap

Hey FannyPack,

Always enjoy reading over your updates.  This is a link to an article that recently appeared in the Chicago Tribune about Dr. Bronner and his son of Dr. Bronner's soap fame.  I thought some hikers might be interested.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/leisure/tempo/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV-9912070005,FF.html

Gretel and I are pretty settled in Aurora, IL outside of Chicago and expecting our first baby in April.  Life changes, eh?!  We are very excited but still daydream about the trail regularly!

Take Care,
Hansel & Gretel
GA - ME  '98
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MSG from 99er:
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-----Original Message-----
From: tanya tyson <badarchin@hotmail.com>
To: hikers99@yahoo.com <hikers99@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: message from ma and pa

My snail mail address:
Tanya Tyson
Red Unit
8607 Westwood Center Dr.
Vienna, VA
22812

cell phone:  318 340 0949

I just took a new job as the school teacher for the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus.  I will travel with them on the train full time and setup school when we stop to do a show.  All students, all ages, all subjects.  It should be fun.  I'll have the cell phone all the time.  The address is what mail will be forwarded to me from about twice a week or so.  Send it
on to anyone you know, I love mail.

Take care!!!
Baadai
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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Felix J. McGillicuddy" <AThiker@smithville.net>
To: AT-list <at-l@backcountry.net>
Subject: [at-l] Tank
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 19:10:30 -0500

Just got a note from "TANK". He has finished his 'thru-hike'. He is the
guy who's pack I went through and took over 30 pounds out of...to bring
it down to about 80 pounds. He sent me a killer cool picture from
Katahdin. Thought I'd let you know.
--
Felix Navidad
ME-->GA 98
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MSG from 99er:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Don DuRussel Jr.
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 10:39 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: A Spud Letter

I finished me hike on augest 20th.
Thanks for all the trail magic.
        
                            Potato Picker
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hayduke . [mailto:me2ga99@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 5:33 PM
Subject: I'm Home....

Well, that's it.
I hit Springer Mountain at 7:00pm on Dec. 17th and spent the night on top.  Came down to meet up with my Mom, Dad, my brother and my cousin on the 18th and had a blast at the cookout thanks to Chacco's family. Close to 30 southbounders finished that day and with all the friends and family around the parking area was a zoo! Got lots of great pictures and video of the day
too.  The party started breaking up around 6pm and after climbing Springer again with my Dad and Brother we started for home. Stopped around (midnight?) at a motel for the night and woke early this morning and made it home around 3pm or so and was greeted by friends and family welcoming me home. Nice.

I can't be happier with my trip, every moment I was out there I was free and felt totally at home.  The friends I've made over the past 6 months feel even closer than family to me at times and I will miss all of them.
Thanks to everyone who helped with my trip and everyone who helped me out along the trail.
Until the next adventure.....
Later,
HAYDUKE
ME-GA '99
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hayduke . [mailto:me2ga99@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 10:21 AM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: RE: I'm Home....

List of southbounders finsihing on 12/17 or 12/18/99:

Hayduke
OZ
Walking Man
Clivus
Jetson
Greenbean
NumNut
Lob
Mini-Me
SoccerBall
Bubba
Panda
Cruton
Morpheus
Nightingale
Wheels
"click-click"
Pop-Top
Calomine
Nemo
NightRider
Sage
Mud Diver
Commander Conrad
Chacco and Blackfly the Dog
Sasquach
Sudz
SlackJaw
Wild Child
Step-by-Step (dancer)
George (dancer's son)

That's about it I think, I'll look at my pictures soon to see if I forgot anyone....
Later,
HAYDUKE
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MSG from 99er:
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-----Original Message-----
From: brandon friedman [mailto:icecreamman63@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:05 AM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: Re: 1999-12-09a - update from FannyPack - SPECIAL MSG about PILGRIM

Hey Fannypack. That stinks about Pilgrim. He'll be alright. I was hoping you could help me relay a message since you have such a widespread connection. I want to create a compilation of stories from '99 thru-hikers.
Some basic topics are:
1) best and worst hitch,
2) trail magic,
3) crazy animal experiences,
4) bizarre experiences with locals or day-hikers,
4) and anything else that would entertatin or enlighten.

I'm open to any suggestions. Thank you so much. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
                   IceCreamMan
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http://bigg.penguinpowered.com/ - a 2000 thru-hiker starting on 12/31/1999
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-----Original Message-----
From: michael grodzinski [mailto:mikegrod@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 5:39 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: hi from greylox

hi there,
seasons greatings.
i am increasing velocity to get up and out onto the "israel trail", (soon)
please chane my address from mikegrod@hotmail.com and or mikegrog@pocketmail.com.... to
        grodwalk@mail.com

best wishes
thanks for the updates
greylox
aka
michael grodzinski
jerusalem 
israel
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check out the Hiker Trash Haven page at: http://www.hikertrash.net/ brought to u by Prehistoric Tony -  mailto:PT@HikerTrash.net
Below is a portion of one of Prehistoric Tony's webpages:

     Until I get my full journal online, let me just offer a warm "hello" and a sincere wish for success and happiness for just a few of those I met and hiked with from Georgia to Virginia this year:

Butterfly, Wild Chicago, Lemer, August, Orange Bug, Rockfish, The Good Samaritan, The Green Mountain Man (now deceased), Bristlecone, Bear Snack, Sunshine East, Sunshine West, Last Exit, Free Spirit, Alaska, Beorn, Grim, Sir-P-Alot, Get Back and Cassiday, Check Dam, Stitches, Junker, Ma and Pa, Phin, Songbird, Raindancer, Eagle, Ice House, Badger, Sun Dog, Rotten Rodney, Tree, Spicoli, Timber, Blind Elf, Long Haired Freaky People, Gangus Khan and Sugar Buns, Chewy, Willie B. Walkin', Grover, Sweet Blood, and Mountain Goat and Woodberry.

     "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."--Booker T. Washington.  Please remember, success does not mean making Katahdin, but making the best friends of your life on the way to Katahdin.  I wish I could have continue that journey with you.  I will think of you all, all Summer and Autumn.  Maybe we'll meet on another hike in the future.
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MSG from 2000 hiker starting 12/31/99 at Springer, Good Luck, Big G:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Big G [mailto:big_g@mad.scientist.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 5:26 PM
To:
Subject: Trip update

Hello all.  This may be my last email that I send while blister-free, so I want to take the time now to sincerely thank everyone who has wished me well on this journey.

Here are my most recent trip departure plans:

29 December, late pm - Get on the Greyhound in either Cleveland or Maple Heights, Ohio.  I'm planning on a late night bus ride so I can hopefully sleep through it.  Why a bus?  Well, a bus will take me closer to the trailhead than the Atlanta airport, it's cheaper, I may not be able to bring my stove's fuel on a plane, and no chance of lost or damaged backpack.

30 December, late afternoon - Arrival in Gainesville, Georgia.  Then I will be shuttled (don't know how/whom yet) to Amicalola Falls State Park.  I'll sign in at the ranger station, weigh my pack on the scale, take a couple pictures, and proceed to the first shelter at the start of the AT approach trail.  Once there I will eat one of my mega-heavy canned dinners.

31 December, early morning - Eat my remaining mega-heavy canned meal.  It's an 8.8 mile hike to the top of Springer Mountain where the AT starts.  I will spend New Year's Eve at the Springer Mountain shelter quite possibly with a few other thruhikers.

01 January, early morning - Start my first full day on the AT.  Whoo Hoo!

-=G=-
GA -> ME 2000
http://BigG.penguinpowered.com/
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PACK IT IN!!!   PACK IT OUT!!!
Trail Magic, PB&J's, & AYCE rule.
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The greatest happiness is to transform your feelings into actions. - Madame de Stael
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Thanks for your feedback & cooperation.
David  L  Atkinson Jr
mailto:datkinso@att.com
Fanny Pack
96GA2ME
cell -   703-470-2320
work -   703-713-7320
pager -  888-602-7551
PO Box 2892
Sterling, VA 20167-2892
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