To all 98ers/99ers & other AT
friends:
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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Wild Gess & Mtn Laurel -
Eric & Laurel Gess- mailto:elgess@aol.com 98GA2ME -e-mail changed
12/31/99
Sweet Blood - Rodney Robinson - mailto:bridgerb@bellsouth.net 99GA2ME -e-mail changed
12/31/99
Rockhopper - Jeff Juell - mailto:jjuell@principia.edu
1999ME2GA -added 01/03/00
Rabbit - Stve Krake - mailto:stevek@mtco.com 1999GA2NH
- added 1/4/00
Snickers - Steve Howard -mailto:sthoward@arches.uga.edu 1999GA2ME -added
1/5/00
Hollydays and Little Engine - Holly & ?Dave Bragdon -mailto:Spooky@pivot.net
1999ME2GA -added 1/5/00
Caterpillar - Terry D Carter mailto:caterpillar_at_hiker@yahoo.com -1998GA2ME -added
1/5/00
anyone have the phone#, e-mail, & snail mail for
Kincora???
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MSG from
96er:
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Good
[mailto:mudelephant@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December
30, 1999 3:48 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: Re:
1999-12-30 - update from FannyPack
Hello Fanny
Pack,
Thanks for your E-mails. I thought
I would tell you a little bit
about my hike in
'96:
I started on April 20 @ Springer,
originally hoping to go one-way to Maine, but soon realized that I was slow
enough that I would have to flip-flop. So I decided to do a 3-way fl.-fl. so
that I could still be going north in New England. On June 26 I reached
Pearisburg, VA and then jumped up to Williamstown, MA, where I continued hiking
north on July 3. I reached
Katahdin on September 6, then went back to W'town
and started south on sept. 10. I finally finished up back in Pearisburg on
December 14! I was one of the slowest hikers of the '96 season, but, from what I
understand, not quite the last one.
The southbounders that
were with me when I finished were Top Dog and Hamburgler. They were going to
stay in P'burg for the night, and had planned to make Damascus by Christmas, and
finish @ springer later in the winter. I never heard from them again; does
anyone know if they made it okay?
If anybody
knows about them, i'ld like to hear. And also, Mako + Prowler, 2 other
southbounders who were with me, touch + go, from Ma. to the Shen. Nat. Park.
They got off at Rusty's for a few days, + they never caught up with me again, so
I'ld like to know what happened to them as well. Any info would be
appreciated.
Well, Ive got some other E-mail to catch up on, so
I'm outa here!
Good modulating
with you. Catch you
later!
AT Mud Elephant
96
GA------------->VA
MA------------->ME
VA<-------------MA
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MSG
from 98er (actually one of thos
SOBOs):
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-----Original
Message-----
From: Felix J. McGillicuddy [mailto:AThiker@smithville.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 30,
1999 4:07 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: Re:
1999-12-30 - update from FannyPack
Hey Fanny,
I am trying to raise
money for the "Place" by raffling some Mellencamp stuff. The url is http://Felixhikes.tripod.com/raffle.html
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MSG
from 98er:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dionysis
V. Nikolopoulos [mailto:dionysis01@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30,
1999 6:05 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: Re: from
your brother "INDY" .....PEACE SIGN......
Hey Fannypac
Hey Fanny
pac. Happy new year brother, I need a favorite from you, I'm
begging because
you're a trail Angel (COUGH).
can you post this old pal..
:-)
{{{{{{{{{{{{ HELLO }}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Dear Trail Friends you know
who you are....
I wasn't going to slip bye, with out saying, have a Happy
New Century. A new Century which we must now face. A challenging, No wait an
expanding new century that is ready to grow.. and more.. of a need of
land...
My new year resultion. is to donate to any charites that will
help fight cause to save whats left of it,and for how long... I hope I wasn't
the only one that had this thought even once.. while on the trail. IF NOT
NOW<-- WHEN WHEN ......... Even a missly $12.00
a dallor
for ever month. then??? Just Donate...
THATS just (ONE
RESOULTION,,) MY NEXT RESOLUTION!!!! SEE You @ Trail D.A.Z.E.
your
brother "INDY" ..PEACE
SIGN...
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-----Original
Message-----
From: David Donaldson [mailto:scotshiker@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30,
1999 6:18 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: Re:
1999-12-30 - update from FannyPack
Earle Townes will be dropping off Mr.
Clean at the A.T. Lodge tommorow. Mr. Clean will begin his southbound hike
from Abol Bridge (too many hurdles to jump to try to 'officially' start in
Baxter) on New Years Day. God Speed Mr. Clean.
NOTE from FannyPack:
this Mr Clean, 97GA2ME, was pictured in Backpacker, Dec '98 edition. Great
guy, look for him on his southbound
journey.
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-----Original
Message-----
From: Justin Hall [mailto:jstone3106@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30,
1999 7:07 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Cc: 'Fannypack96
(E-mail)'
Subject: Re: 1999-12-30 - update from FannyPack
Hey
Fannypack,
Thank you for remembering us southbounders! That "cooler
with legs" was such a blessing that I forgot about my frozen boots the morning I
saw it. It was also nice to look at the register and find out who was
still behind us. What a great idea! Thanks.
Jetson,
MeGa99
P.S. In your next update, could you please mention the
address I've put some photos at: http://www.oocities.org/yosemite/canyon/1700
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MSG
from 98ers:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric
Gess [mailto:edocgess@mindspring.com]
Sent: Thursday, December
30, 1999 8:21 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Cc:
'Fannypack96 (E-mail)'
Subject: Re: 1999-12-30 - update from
FannyPack
Hey FannyPack, Just wanted to drop a line, wish you a Happy New
Year, and advise that our e-mail address is changing to elgess@aol.com. The new
address is now functional. Can you please change your master e-mail list.
Thanks. Everything here is going fine. Laurel is pregnant and is due sometime in
early June. We have done a fair amount of hiking in Harriman. In
October we
camped up by Fingerboard Shelter and ran into "Jukebox" 98' who was finishing
her hike. Hope all is well.
Best wishes to everybody for the new
year!
Wild Gess and Mountain Laurel
98'
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MSG from
99er:
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-----Original Message-----
From:
Sent:
Saturday, January 01, 2000 3:55 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack),
BGM
Subject: e-mail
hey
fannypack,
Thanks for all of the
goodies along the trail! It was another great feeling of kind
humanity. Random acts of kindness are the best. My e-mail is now
working with the same address you already have:
jjuell@principia.edu
I would
appreciate receiving your
updates!
!cuidate!
with
thanks and appreciation,
Rockhopper - Jeff
Juell
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MSG from 99er:
From:
"Steve Krake" <stevek@mtco.com>
Reply-To: stevek@mtco.com
To:
atml@trailplace.com
Subject: ATML White Mountains in May - Help!
Date:
Sun, 2 Jan 2000 15:46:05 -600
I am hoping to hike from Glencliff thru
Katahdin starting in mid-may. I understand the whites can be pretty messy that
time of year and I am hoping to get some suggestions! Will I need full, rigid
crampons, snow shoes, ice axe??? I have never been on the AT in the whites and
although I have hiked in the snow quite a bit, I have never hiked in the snow
above treeline in the Whites! So, if you could give me some hints, they
would be appreciated. Also, that will put me in the maine woods early to mid
june... is that a problem? Thanks for your help.
Happy hiking! Steve
"Rabbit" Krake GA->Glencliff NH 99.
PS. for those of you who hiked
with me last spring, it was a blast! Drop me a note and I can fill you in about
the mishap that took me off the trail. I hate Spyderco
knives!
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MSG from 2 98ers on
their world tour (actually just Europe, unless they get to Africa, can't tell
about these hikers, change their mind every 5
mninutes:
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-----Original
Message-----
From: scott hollister [mailto:breezen99@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04,
2000 10:08 AM
To:
Subject: Rome!!
Hello! Hello! How are
you? We had a wonderful holiday season here in Europe!! We spent
Christmas and New Years with a friend in Switzerland in a wonderful mountain
town with lots and lots of beautiful snow!!! We enjoyed a wonderful day of
cross-country skiing and a couple days of hiking as well as beautiful displays
of fireworks shimmering over the mountain snow!! We are now in Rome which
is an absolutely amazing city!!! The history here is never-ending!
Today, we visited the colliseum, the vatican city and St. Peter's Basilica, the
Forum, and the Pantheon. The gelati is just as good as it was this summer
even though it's a bit cooler outside.
Next stop: Sicily and Mt.
Etna!
We'd love to hear from
you!
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-----Original
Message-----
From: brandon friedman [mailto:icecreamman63@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January
05, 2000 11:23 AM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Cc:
fannypack96@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: 1999-12-30 - update from
FannyPack
Happy New Year everyone. Congratulations. It was great to see
all of you on the 18th at Springer. I wish I could of hung out longer but
unfortunately I had another commitment. I just wanted to inform all '99
thru-hikers that I'm putting together a compilation of short stories from this
year's hike. I want all the entertaining stories involving hitches, town
occurrences, trail magic, strange encounters w/ locals, animal encounters, and
anything else that would add some spice to this collection. If everyone
contributes something, I know we can have something special. I'd love to get it
published. But first things first. Ya'll need to organize your thoughts into a
composition and send them my way via e-mail or
mail.
icecreamman63@hotmail.com
Brandon Friedman
6590 Scott Valley
Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30328
I can't wait to hear from ya'll. Take it
easy.
Peace and
love,
Brandon
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MSG from 2002er
(that's a mouthful should it be
02er??)
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-----Original
Message-----
From: Banta, Brian E [mailto:beb13907@glaxowellcome.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January
05, 2000 1:58 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Cc:
Fannypack96 (E-mail)
Subject: RE: 2002 Southbounder couple wants feedback
from southbounders
David,
Thank you for your note. I
appreciate your effort both in generating responses and respecting people's
privacy. I hope I didn't step on any toes or anything. Judging from the
sheer volume (and content) of AT-L (digest) it is a very active list with lots
of topics being discussed. I just can't invest the time to be as active as some
(Felix, coosa). But if there is a cadre of SOBOs that are willing to be
prodded (gently) with my inquiries now and then through e-mails I am certainly
looking forward to it. I am not sure if they, the secret society of
southbounders, will get this (reply to all to BCCs?). Here is more of an
introduction anyway.
Everybody else (?),
My name is Brian, posted
on AT-L a couple weeks back. Planning on hiking Me->Ga in 2002 with my
fiancée (then wife). I know this is early for planning but I am so
excited. Besides with y2k over, know I can buy corn pasta real cheap (I've
got a driveway to pave). We have a limited time frame in which to hike,
only about 4 months. We know we are looking at some higher mileage
days than most hikers. Right know we are thinking about pace and are
exploring a couple of options if you have thoughts on these please chime
in.
The lightweight plan - we have been working at really reducing
packweight with ideas gleaned from Jardine and others to come up with a system
that will work for us. Did anybody significantly reduce their packweight
(or increase toward the end) and what effect did it have on your hike? Also,
sneakers?
Mileage - Interested in finding out how your pace changed over
the hike (?) We were thinking of starting out medium for the first 2-3 weeks and
then ramping up about 25-30%, and maybe again for the mid-atlantic states, and
then slowing down a little in the south.
Alternative strategies - Have
been thinking about the "dog days of summer" and ways to extend the miles in
those long days. Night hiking, early starts, afternoon naps, hiking after
cooking.
Don't want to make this too long. Please don't think I am
trying to distill anyone's thruhike experience into useful tidbits, I realize
that a thruhike is much more than daily mileage. I just want to get info
to make the experience possible, once that is done I'll just let the experience
happen.
dreaming,
-Brian E. Banta
A good traveler has no fixed
plans and is not intent upon arriving.
--
Lao-tzu
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From: "Ryan K.
Brooks" <ryan@inc.net>
To: at-l@backcountry.net
Subject:
[at-l] Archives online for Nov, Dec 99 (Admin)
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000
00:54:49 -0600
Subject says it all, see: http://www.backcountry.net/arch/at/
-Ryan
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-----Original
Message-----
From: holly bragdon [mailto:spooky@pivot.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000
4:18 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: Re: Hi from
FannyPack in VA
Hello Fannypack...
Greetings from Maine.
Thankyou for thinking of us. Unfortunately we didn't finish the AT this
year. We got off in Bland, VA.on Nov 5th, after just 4 months on the
trail. We started July lst. In hindsight, we should have
holed up in a motel for a few days and regrouped. But the good news is
that we have plane tickets all set to go back on the trail. We will
be
starting at Springer Mt on April lst and finishing in Bland, VA. We
will then rent a car and drive back to trail days to see all our fellow hikers.
:) Will you be at trail days. After trail days, we will go to the
Roanoke airport and catch a flight home. Also, being retired, that we are,
we drove down to Springer thurs and fri of Dec to see our friends summit
Springer on
saturday, Dec 18th. What a thrill. We
loved hiking it was such an adventure and journey. My husband,
Dave, is considering continuing on the trail after Bland, VA onto
ME. He will make that decision in
VA
Sincerely, Holly and Dave Bragdon
aka Hollydays and Little Engine
ME>VA 1999 and GA>VA
2000. Take
Care
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-----Original
Message-----
From:
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 7:45 PM
To:
Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: confirmation
hey
fannypack,
I received the e-mail
sent through my address:
jjuell@principia.edu
You can send
all of the messages through this address->it is a forwarding
service which
my alma mater, Principia College, provides for all of its
students and
graduates. this will be my e-mail address for life!
thanks
again,
Rockhopper
P.S. Peachy keen and I
just went for a hile at 9500 feet up in Rocky
Mountain National Park.
Wind-driven snow created a mystical feeling up that
high in the colorado
Rockies. It was fun hiking in the
snow!
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MSG from
96er:
-------------------------
From:
To:
at-l@backcountry.net
Subject: [at-l] Thru-hikers beginning Jan 1
Date:
Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:11:11 EST
I forgot to mention that there were two thru
hikers beginning from Springer on Jan. 1 that spent the night with us. One
was The Itsy Bitsy Spider, who is planning to hike the AT and then the PCT in
one year. The other is a three time thru hiker Albatross (92 Ga-Me,
94-GA-Me then Me-GA) who is planning a GA-Me and then a Me-Ga in 12
months. He is a recent retiree.
There were also two guys who were
finishing their Harpers Ferry to Springer hike and a couple of other former thru
hikers. Gutsy
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98er
webpage info (as u peruse Felix's page, remember he is a SOBOer, ha! ha!, hope
to meet u Felix at the Ruck so I can get my facts straight when it comes to u
& SOBOers in general, until then):
--------------------
http://felixhikes.tripod.com/ - Felix J. McGillicuddy's
homepage - mailto:AThiker@smithville.net
http://members.tripod.com/~Felixhikes/AT/ew.html - description
of this page content from Felix = "This is a story I sent to a local newspaper.
Remember, I'm a landscaper, not a righter. Sorry if the lines don't come out
even, etc. I can't plant things in straight lines, either."
http://members.tripod.com/~Felixhikes/AT/ - go to this
directory if u want to see alot of JPEGs Felix has posted
NOTE: pls don't get
discouraged with the Tripod PopUpWindow that comes up each time u go to a new
page, just close (click on X) it -
enjoy
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2000er homepage (00er
used in the future):
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http://minot.com/~turtle/ -
homepage of Howard D. Lyons, Sr. "Turtle" of North
Dakota
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-----Original
Message-----
From: Marielle & Paul [mailto:hikers99@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000
11:32 AM
To: Undisclosed.Recipients@flowers.sprint.ca
Subject: message
from hyper
You may or may not have received a message from hyper
about a web site created by Zip Drive.
I would recommend you check out the
web page she mentions:
www.trailjournals.com.
The site has a
listing of about 500 thru hikers from 1999. There are pictures of many of them
and info about their hike. Also there are many addresses and email
addresses.
Zipdrive is protecting privacy for those who so wish. I
was very impressed wit what I found there and was able to locate people I was
looking for like Badger and
Bagel.
Pa
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From: Walter
Shroyer <wshroyer@mail.bluefield.edu>
To:
at-l@backcountry.net
Subject: [at-l] Rockfish Gap Hiking -
South
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:19:18 -0500
I just finished a hike
from Rockfish Gap to Fish Hatchery Road. We had
a great trip. If you
want to read about our hike go to this web site
http://www.angelfire.com/va/treeartist/dec1999journal.html
.
Thanks,
Walter
Shroyer
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PACK
IT IN!!! PACK IT OUT!!!
Trail Magic, PB&J's, & AYCE
rule.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Coming
together is a beginning; keeping together is a process; working together is
success. -Henry
Ford
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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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