aT,

Your description truly made me laugh, and laughter is a good way to
start the day!! I thought it was just our age and couch potato life
style that was causing our discomfort, but if you felt it also, maybe
it really is a tough trek.

Every time I think of that hill after box #4 and then realize that it
was never ending and the worse was yet to come, my heart starts
pounding and I feel lightheaded. And, on top of all that, to have to
walk out in the dark was like adding "insult to injury" or more
discomfort to our already exhaustion or even adding salt to an open wound.

And, to think we have to do it again so we can count #5. By that
time, we should know "dem hills" quite well.

But, I must say, we do feel as if we've accomplished a great feat.

C of DKK

--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, kel gennert wrote:
> Oh Lea, Lea, Lea,
>
> There are parts that are STEEP!!!! Feels like straight
> up. Then up some more. Then, oh, up some more! The
> advice given to me re: getting Sideways and Planet
> Walk in one trek was to do PW till just past Saturn,
> then detour onto Gray Pine Trail to do Sideways, then
> take Brushy Peaks Trail (pay attention to this name,
> especially the second word) back to PW and do Pluto,
> Neptune and Uranus in that order. That is all fine and
> good. Start out first thing in the morning and give
> yourself all day so you don't have to try to hurry any
> part of it like some of us did. I am a backpacker from
> way back and sneer a little when I see people using
> the double walking stick technique of hiking. I'll
> tell ya, I wish we'd each had a pair for this hike.
> Especially for the downhills.
>