Catpappy!
It was such a delight to run into you on the trail, again!
For any of you who do now know this story, it is a neat one full of coincidence & serendipity. Last year -- the one and only other time I have been on the WMT -- I was hiking with Bob R. on our way to the Kent Ashcraft Memorial gathering on Thor (the day before the annual WPS group hike to Thor)It was a couple of days after the big cyclone carryover that caused a huge dumping of snow on Oct 19t, so there were not many people on the trail, however, we did manage to meet up with and chat with Catpappy. That weekend, he joined us for the WPS Potluck, and we had a chance to talk further.
Fast forward almost a year later....
At thee very last minute -- two weeks before, last minute -- I was invited to go along on Bob R's Big Adventure. I had told no one that I was doing Whitney, that way if I failed, it would just bee between myself and a few friends. To my delight, two days before the trip, Bulldog34 posted "Catpappy in the House" and I realized that there would be a good chance (even better since he changed his summit day) that Catpappy would be coming up the trail while we were coming down. Little did I know how much of a social atmosphere existed on the trail AND how often people DO leapfrog and run into each other over and over and over (that is another story.) Anyhow, short story long: Once again, Catpappy at I were on the trail at the same time and had a chance to see each other!
Happy hiking, Catpappy!
