Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The Long List - Erin Hamilton, GY






A long list of what we Ioved or learned to deal with during our first 10 day hitch in Pinedale, WY:

Long car rides with a Jersey driver, amazing views, south park quotes, mosquitoes, hot days, enormous rocks in the middle of the trail, pb&j every day, mosquitoes, teddy grahams, story time around the fire, mosquitoes, developing a language only our crew understands (‘my water has Narnia’, ‘ you’ve been aubbed’, and ‘cow-bear-bush’), questions of the day during stretch circle (if the world ends in 2012, how would you hope it happens? If you could shrink any animal down to Chihuahua size, what would you chose?), mosquitoes, realizing no one remembered bug spray, falling and bucking trees with cross-cuts, crossing cold streams, pack mules, Josh surprising us with bug spray and twizzlers, fire hardened trees, bent picks, broken wedges, nicknames for everything and everyone (gonzo, she-hulk, aubination), the sound of the grouse, inside jokes, mosquitoes, and lastly the great feeling of accomplishment after a long days work.

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Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.
—CINDY ROSS, Journey on the Crest, 1987