"Zaphod Beeblebrox" <victor.king1NOS...@verizon.net> wrote in message

> Disculpa Senora Jay Furr, pero did you really mime the following  on
> 9/7/2008 11:31 AM???
>> "J.C. Watts Enslin" <jens...@charter.net> wrote in news:3818e77a-1df8-
>> 4d3c-b79f-ab20bcb31...@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

>>> Campfire...seafood jumbalaya...beer.

>>> My wife reminded me that I was boasting that I would still be up to
>>> play basketball this morning.

>>> Oy...time to man up I guess.

>> I walked sixteen miles in the mountains yesterday, 3000-foot elevation
>> changes, trail so rugged they had to put an actual galvanized aluminum
>> stepladder in at one point, *in the rain*.  Boy, howdy were those
>> freakin' rocky trails fun in slick, wet conditions.  About the fifteenth
>> time I fell down I found myself face to face with a low-hanging pine
>> branch and was so frustrated I just grabbed it with my mouth and chewed
>> angrily on it.  (I was a bit surprised a moment later when I realized
>> what I was doing.)

>> Drank lots of fluids but still came home weighing something like six
>> pounds less.

>> Damn good day.

> This sounds like something I would have loved to do.  Dude you should come
> to Pittsburgh for the Rachel Carson Challenge next year in June - I've
> done it the last two years and this is one of the most awesome trails in
> the U.S.