so, i'm not walking with annie any more, but we walked almost 1000 miles together, so i wanted to tell you a little about her... the important stuff...
she smells like pina colada (well actually, not since she posted her maui mike sunscreen which was destroying her skin, but mate, she did smell deliciously like pina colada - i'm surprised bears weren't charging out of the scrub to lick her), likes long walks in the snow (actually, she's a little ambivalent about walking in the snow, in fact, last i heard she was completely over it... but she did spend a lot of time walking through the snow...)
um, she (this is serious), likes to get saltines (the crackers), crush them all up (she says smooshes - i think that's the technical term), then squirt milk into them out of a water bottle, make patterns and then eat it...
and, (now don't judge her), her favourite movie is armageddon... she can give you a synopsis longer than the actual film, which i realise is no longer a synopsis...
she is an amazing tracker. actually i think she's got a shoe fetish. one morning while we were hiking she suddenly stopped and stabbed the snow, saying: 'merrels! who's wearing merrels? no one ahead of us has merrels! chilli and pounder are wearing salomons, happy meal and waldo have cascadias, so do gangsta rap and timex. no merrels'... and sure enough, we shortly caught up with topsy turvy and data muffin, who we hadn't walked behind previously, and data muffin was wearing merrels... she honestly can go through everyone we've anywhere near and tell you their footwear, to the degree that she can tell you i have men's salomons because the almost identical tread has squares rather than 'L' shapes...
when i find it, i'll upload a photo of annie doing a john muir impersonation... uncanny likeness... while we were in the high sierras there were often etchings of john muir, who seemed to be about to stuff his fist into his mouth, as if he'd been starving for a very long time, (either that or he was pondering all the wise things he was going to say about the beauty surrounding him)... anyway, there were a few times i though he was right there with us...
Hey Kyl,
ReplyDeleteAre you walking by yourself now? What do they call you? Not phantom jimbrick (how is that going, by the way?) And do you use the whole name when you are actually talking to a person, or just, say, data. Or does it depend how well you know them? Or how formal the situation is. I imagine when you have to introduce two people you would have to use their whole name - Topsy Turvy, this is Data Muffin, Data Muffin, Topsy Turvy.
Love the merrels tale! Made me giggle. I've been teaching my school kids to track emu & goanna by making tracks in the sandpit. We have imaginary spears & boomerangs too. Very cute.
ReplyDeletehmmm, pertinent questions ains. they call me jimbrick. i overheard some section hikers asking ma & pa 'what exactly is a jimbrick' which was pretty funny...
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