Date: 2004-05-16
From: trail days/damascus,va

To: hard core trail maintenance/hampton,tn
Miles today: 0.0

sunday   zero mileshampton,tn/hard core trail maintenancei woke up about 6am and layed in the tent until almost 7am."liteshoe" and i packed up and tried to wake up "john galt" and "dr. doolittle" who had told us the night before to make sure we woke them up and not take no for an answer. well, we took no for an answer because they weren't going to move. "rainbow slick" came over as we were leaving and he went to breakfast with us. we dropped him back at tent city after breakfast and he was going to try and find his wife. we met "bob peoples" at the p.o. at 9:30am and about 80 other hikers joined us to go and dig about 3/4 mile of side hill trail. it was hard work, but it was spending time with good people. we walked back out to the road crossing about 2 miles away and drove to watauga lake where "baltimore jack" and "pat peoples" and others had dinner waiting on all 80 of us. it started raining hard just as i got my dinner and i sat in the car with "liteshoe", "lwop" and "pez" and ate. we decided that we would go get a motel room rather than stay at the hostel and made plans to meet the work crew again in the morning. another great day spent with hikers.....the best people there are.i have to thank the "leki" folks for making my hiking poles good for another 2500 miles. they really help out the hikers and i feel they have the best hiking poles on the trail.i'm going to name some of my hiking friends that i ran into at trail days this year. i know that this is an incomplete list and i'm forgetting some really good friends, but you have to remember that i'm working with a brain that's over half a century old, so if i forgot that i ran into you at trail days, i'm sorry."dr. doolittle", she told me that if she wasn't one of the first ones i mentioned that......well, lets just say i took the threat seriously. "stanimal", "john galt", "rainbow slick", "underpants", "goosebump the snow princess", "hammer", "no worries", "pog", "litebrite", "sir fix-a-lot", "blue skies", "stray cat", "starburst", "grassy ridge", "sky", "supafly", "firefly", "mo", "skeemer", "just do it", "scamp", "packrat94", "packrat04", "big john", "big red", "spur", "tacoma ted", "eats", "hippie longstockings", "poptart", "burn", "mary jo", "ponderer", "lwop", "lief", "zipdrive", "mad german", "chief", "glacier", "pinecone", "pingo", "fireman fred", "gabby", "hopeful", "squirel meat", "mountain man", "paddler", "miss janet", "kaitlyn", "mainframe", "dale america", "million miler", "troll", "hotdog", "waterfall", "stitches", "baltimore jack", "sly", "sunny", "sunset", "sherlock", "circuit rider", "queen diva", "honey pie", "hoss", "maizie", "lars", "papa smurf", "awol", "atrain! ", "dimples", "subman", "tiny", "dharma", "footslogger", "wu-li", "red beard", "curley", "sparrow", "tennessee jack", "texas jack", "moxey", "goochie", "pooch", "artsie", "twinkle toes", "trail frog", "tang", "turtle", "pegasus", "brian", "felix j. mcgillicutty", "wood owl", "chase", "the old ridgerunner", "honey", "bear", "bob peoples", "wobbles", "arrie", "the hobbits", "unc no light", "sarge", "crash test dummy", "restless",   tom", "jeff", "joe mitchell", "candy", "heald", "songbird", "dejavue", "nails", "mr. nails", "dances with scarves", "madhatter", "buhda", valentine", "spoonful", "spoon", "jersey", "bigfoot", "silver", "firefeet", "boo-boo", "bramble", "fauna", "pez", "cairo", "shady smurf"do you see how easy it would be to forget lots of friends with meeting this many frinds all at trail days???