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.
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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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Gecko Goat -William Lowe -mailto:gecko_at@hotmail.com
-2000GA2?? -added 1/17/00, a 00er as well as many other yrs.
The Mayor
- Eric Bahnsen -mailto:mayor98@email.com 1998GA2ME -added 1/17/00
Spur of the Moment -Chris Bagby -mailto:chrisbagby@yahoo.com 1999GA2ME -added
1/18/00
OZ - ??? snailmail or preferable email address of OZ who
Southbounded in 1999?
Kincora - Pat & Bob Peoples - anyone have an
e-mail for them?
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From:
"Charles W. Davidson" <wb4pan@mindspring.com>
To:
"at-l@backcountry.net"
Subject: [at-l] Weekend Hike
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000
16:13:45 -0500
Yo,
I walked
from 311 to 220 this weekend. Tinker Ridge is always a nice hike, a good one for
my first hike of the year. the piles of dry leaves were up to waist deep. It
sure made a lot of noise when I plowed thru them. I camped in a high spot
overlooking the Daleville/ Interstate 81 valley. I saw a bunch of meteorites
last night. A little bit of sleet early in the night, then clear skies. The rain
started after breakfast and followed me all the way to my
truck.
chase
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From: John O [mailto:johno@mail.monmouth.com]
Sent: Friday, January 14,
2000 1:26 AM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack)
Subject: Ruck
Update
FP would you mind adding this to your next posting?
See
ya
John O
Okay the Ruck is soon upon us. Anyone who plans on
going and hasn't made reservations at hostel or campground there is a link for
them on Ruck page. http://friends.backcountry.net/ruck/
Anyone who is
planning to do a long distance hike should make every effort to attend and learn
from those who have gone before you.
Reminder we are having a raffle
raising money for "The Place" http://www.damascus.org/trailservices/hostel.htm
All money
collected will be donated in Ed Garvey's name. Damascus United Methodist Church
has been running the free hostel to hikers for years. It's in need
or major repairs and we have adopted this project for the Ruck raffle.
Each raffle ticket is $5 and you get a chance for all these items. A week
for TWO of suported hiking from our favorite slackpacker, Richard Mann, aka
Pittsburgh and Hike USA. - Value $800 An Ultralight NomadLight backpacking tent
from Kurt Russell & Wanderlust Value $250 MountainSmith Mountain Light
4000Weight 3lb 1 oz, Carbon Fiber Stays, Green, One of a kind Never used. A
MountainSmith MountainLight 4000 backpack donated by a darlin' daughter in honor
of her Mom, who died from cancer before she could realize her dream of thru
hiking. - Value $299 A 30 item sampler of trailfood donated by Enertia Trail
Foods - Value $60 A years internet service free I can't remember the company
name.
Please send your check or money order payable to Damascus UMC
Hostel and mail them to:
John O'Mahoney
40 Lenape trail
Brick, NJ
08724
Include a self addressed stamped envelope and I'll send your raffle
tickets back to you.
Now folks please send those checks and money orders
real soon as I leave for hiking and the Ruck January 21st. To those who
have donated thanks again the church is very thankful and
grateful.
John
O
http://www.monmouth.com/~johno/index.html
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From: Evalyn [mailto:evyb@kynd.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000
11:46 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: Re: RESEND:
2000-01-13 - update from FannyPack
From Flutterby's mother,
Hi
Fannypack, we enjoy receiving your messages from the hikers, especially the 98'
hikers that were here in Skowhegan for our Pig Roast. Please tell all
those we know and met at our home we wish them, as well as you,a very happy and
healthy New Year. It's fun hearing about Mr. Clean as we met him last
summer when he went to work for our neighbor checking trees in the very
area he is now hiking in the snow up here in Maine. He is in our
thoughts on these cold nights. Tonight, Jan. 13th, the windchill factor is about
20 below zero. Hope he is cozy and warm in a shelter, better yet in someone's
home. We have no snow in Skowhegan, have had only 3" so far this winter,
the mts. are making snow for the skiers and we wonder when we will get the "big
storm". Would love to hear from any of the 98' hikers. Our email is mailto:evyb@kynd.com
You all come visit us anytime.
Fondly, Evalyn
Bowman
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From: Dick Bailey [mailto:rjb0343@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000
8:34 AM
To:
Subject: cooooold
Greetings from the summit of Mt.
Washington! The sky is clear but the temp hit -31 degrees and the winds have
been 117 mph which makes the windchill about 4 million below or some figure
equally meaningless. I've decided to stay inside today and see if I can help the
obresvatory get rid of the excess inventory of Little Debbie snack cakes. I did
get some pictures yesterday when the temp was a mild zero with 40 mph winds but
even then every inch of skin was covered so I didn't get frostbite. Today it
wouldn't be a bite it would be a big chomp!
Have a nice day, Richard,
Dick, The Old Fhart, or
TDD
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MSG from a 98er: (welcome
back Dave)
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----Original Message
Follows----
From: "David Warren"
<brdrhorizon@hotmail.com>
To:
Subject: a final hola from Costa
Rica
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:58:24 PST
Hola from Costa
Rica,
-quick update-
I'm in the final hours, 33, to be exact, of
my journey here in Costa Rica. It has been an incredible experience and
revival of my spirit and soul. I have climbed to 12,596', I guess my head
was at 12,600+ though, it still seemed pretty high, the highest peak in CR., Mt.
Chirripo. I had the chance to swim in epic surf on some incredibly
beautiful tropical beaches. Slop through the mud and bugs of four
different tropical rain forests, spying howler monkeys, white face monkeys,
spider monkeys, poison dart frogs, a spectrum of colors in the birds and
butterfly world, sloths, and more lizards and iguanas than you can count, but it
is now coming to and end. It was the fastest five+ weeks I've spent
anywhere. This place is so green, it is truly amazing. I saw
Christmas and New Year's pass here and didn't miss a thing. Both holiday
periods on different tropical beaches was a new, but rewarding
experiences. I fly out on the 15th to Fl. then back Maine, and winter, a
few days after a short in FL. I hope all of you are well and the first
fifteen days of the new year have been healthy. Until then, Godspeed, be free,
and most of all, happy.....
-Dave,
Sightseer
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-----Original
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From: glenna dean [mailto:bjdean@midmaine.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 15,
2000 5:42 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject:
Mr.Clean
Greetings from a very cold
Maine!
We had a call from Mr.Clean
this morning and he arrived in Monson last night ( the 14th ). He is
staying at Shaw's and plans on taking a day off and heading south on Sunday (
the 16th). He said he would be visiting the Pie Lady before he
leaves
town. I told him that people had sent e-mail here and I had forwarded it
the Pie Lady.
We were concerned
about Mr.Clean as the last couple of nights the temp. has been below 0 and the
chill factor has dropped to 40 below. He had a hard time climbing up
Chairback Mt. and spent a very cold night at Cloud Pond Shelter.
Even
with the cold Mr.Clean is having a grand time and was in excellent
spirits when Glenna and I talked with him this morning. We will keep him
in our prayers as he continues
south.
"B.J." and Glenna
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http://nwselp.epcc.edu/elp/windchill.html - Wind Chill
Calculator
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http://www.crocker.com/vhoyt/ - A site dedicated to dayhiking
and backpacking near Northampton,
MA
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The Kincora
Bob and Pat
Peoples
1278 Dennis Cove Road
Hampton, TN
37658
423-725-4409
Uncle John's is
Nolichucky Hostel
151 River
Road
Erwin, TN 37650
423-735-0548
Laurel Creek
Lodge/Hostel
Dennis and Mary Hutchins
mailto: lclodge@usit.net o
http:www.LaurelCreekLodge.com .
1511-A Dennis Cove
Rd.
Hampton, TN
37658.
423-725-5988
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-----Original
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From: Mike Lowe [mailto:gecko_at@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000
8:20 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject: catching up on
things
Hello Fanny Pack, good to hear from ya and see that you are still
involved in the good old AT. Yes, please add my name and address to your list
and keep me on your other lists as well. I plan to start around the 15th
-18th of March this year. So far, I hear that Balt. Jack, TBA, Lone Wolf,
Slyman, will be starting the second or third week of March also. Thanks
for the great photos you sent me about six months ago. I am looking forward to
this coming year, I hope to see you out there again, if you have the time. I
will try to stay in touch a little better, now that I know how to do the e-mail
thing.
later, Gecko Goat
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MSG from
99er:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bagby [mailto:chrisbagby@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000
10:51 PM
To: Atkinson, David L, JR (FannyPack), BGM
Subject:
howdy
FannyPack wrote:
***saw your post (below) to
Trailplace:
congrats on your hike... I do not believe I met u this yr, did we
meet?? what 99ers you hike around?***
Nope, don't believe we met on the
Trail.We started at Springer the same weekend as Colby Jack, Sunshine, Breakin'
Wind, Mom & Booboo, and Red Baron.We stayed close to the first 3 mentioned
the whole way, and saw all but Red Baron (who left the Trail in MA) at the AT
Lodge in Millinocket at the end. Also hiked with Acrobat, Rubicon, Little John
and Houdini awhile.
At Eagle's Nest shelter, just south of Port Clinton, we
shared the shelter with Pilgrim, the southbounder who was later hit by a car in
Tennessee.
We started late, May 22 from Springer, actually only planning
to hike the Georgia section in about ten days. After meeting the guys mentioned
above, and talking with the folks at Walasi-Yi, we decided on the spur of the
moment to continue all the way. A week back in Atlanta was enough to take care
of splitting from work for 4 more months, arranging for a house sitter, and
tweaking our gear. We resumed June 7 where we'd left off (Deep Gap, NC), reached
Damascus June 27, Harpers Ferry July 30, Kent CT August 15, Hanover, NH Sept. 9,
and Katahdin October 13, hiking the whole distance.
I'm presently
reworking a draft of our journal, and will probably post it on the web along
with a few photos in the near future.
Thanks for including me on the
mailing list. It's always great to hear about people back from the
trail!
Spur of the Moment, GA-ME 99 (hiking with Silver
Moon)
Atlanta,
GA
chrisbagby@yahoo.com
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-----Original
Message-----
From: Henry & Carla Lafleur [mailto:hrl@map.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 10:37
PM
To:
Subject:
hi
its official-henry and i each have a picture
to be on the 2001 AT calneadr.his will be aug of a beaaver hut in vt taken on
his trip and mine i took when we went to atc to volunteer in nov 98,,at gatland
state park. guess there were more picuters than ever to choose from this
year and the process was a lot harder for selection
mother
hen
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thought u may want to
hear about this:
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From: Tim
Hewitt <thewitt@fairchildsemi.com>
Reply-To:
thewitt@fairchildsemi.com
To: at-l@backcountry.net
Subject: [at-l] AT
Trail Stories, Volume I
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:22:39 -0500
So, it's
like this. I am working on a book about my thru hike. Many of you already know
this, and yes, I know there are lots of these books already. I'm doing this for
personal closure, OK. Nuf said.
I had originally considered adding in a
chapter for other thru hikers to send me their trail stories. I had intended
this for people who would not otherwise publish anything short of an article in
Trailways or their local newspaper. As I was working through this concept, I
decided to take it one step further.
Here's the deal.
I'm offering
to serve as editor for a new series of books; tentatively titled Appalachian
Trail Stories - Volume I (and II and III and IV, and well, you get the
idea).
The book will feature trail shorts - stories that otherwise would
not be printed for wide distribution. This is not for your end-to-end journal
story, but for other stories about the trail, your experiences as a thru hiker,
your best and worst days, etc. Jack? You wanna tell all about the Doyle? Here's
a good way to do it.
If you want to write a 350 page trail book - well go
ahead, just don't send it to me for inclusion in this book. If you want to write
30 short stories, please do. We'll just put them in future volumes; spreading
around the wealth so to speak.
I'm still working on the details, and I'll
have a web site up soon with specifics, but I wanted to let you - my trail
family - know first. I'm also only interested in long distance hiker stories
here - no offense to those of you who have only done weekends or several hundred
miles of the trail. I'm likely going to limit this to people with 1800 miles or
more of the trail behind them. Why? Well I think these guys need help :).
Seriously, I want to give something back to the thru-hiking community that
helped me to make it through my walk in the woods, and those of you who did the
big miles really inspired me.
Will you get paid for your work?
Absolutely. I suspect that royalties will be split between the editor (that's
me) and the authors based on some arbitrary rules I make - though equitable if I
can be trusted to make such a split based on quantity and interest of the story
you submit. These would be paid out for a limited time after publication -
say 10 years - and then any additional royalties will go to the editor. This is
more for ease in tracking _you_ than anything else. I don't imagine that there
will be any serious money to be made in any of this, but that's not my goal
anyway.
I'm doing this to help all of you get your stories published. If
I can make a buck while I'm at it great. It won't be my driving force however.
If you don't think I'm serious, look at the website I built and now maintain as
a volunteer
at http://wcha.org. I
do silly things sometimes for little or no pay and like it. Yeah, I guess I am a
bit on the stupid side sometimes.
If anyone is interested in
participating, please let me know. I'll specifically send you an invitation when
I'm ready to accept manuscripts - probably before the end of the
month.
There is plenty of writing talent out there, and I'm willing to
read it, cull it, turn it into a book, and fight with a publisher to get it to
market.
Anyone wanna play?
-Paddler
GA>ME Class of
99
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IT IN!!! PACK IT OUT!!!
Trail Magic, PB&J's, & AYCE
rule.
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Coming
together is a beginning; keeping together is a process; working together is
success. -Henry
Ford
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Thanks
for your feedback & cooperation.
David L Atkinson Jr
mailto:datkinso@att.com
Fanny Pack
96GA2ME
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