> > So is the Tongariro Crossing - a one-day hike [...] supposedly takes about seven hours in summer - you need ice axes and other "sounds too much like work" gear in winter. We'll definitely be driving down for THAT hike this summer.
> >
> > Brunnen-"wondering if Sam and Leen would be up for that one...hmmm, any excuse to go check it out"G
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> Ah... well... I guess now would be a good time to mention how "not in shape" all of us are. Sam & Dave do little more than sit at computers all day (with Sam having an occasional walk around the building at lunch time), and even though I ride every day, unfortunately that doesn't put me in shape enough for all that walking, not to mention the fact that my knees would not hold up. Sorry
> to be such a spoil sport! :(
>
> -Le"wondering if Sam & Dave are going to shoot her now for mentioning such things on the forum"en

Leen... What are you talking about?!?

Remember when you and Sam came to see me in Montreal, and I took you for a hike past the Famous Players cinema that was showing "Shanghai Noon," then up across the 40 Trans-Canada 8-lane overpass and down a grassy hill into the Maxi shopping center, and all the way across the huge parking lot to visit Chapters to get the Harry Potter books, and then we went to Toys R Us?

Okay, that wasn't a seven hour walk, but it WAS a 10 km trek. (Sam in his post referred to it as "we took a walk downtown," but actually we never left the suburbs at that point...LOL). I asked whether I was walking too fast for you, which is something I'm prone to do too often; but y'all seemed to keep up just fine. Poppycock on this pretext about being "too unfit." You gotta start somewhere, kid! :-)

Wolfspirit