01/11/07

Yeah. Well this guy was really a mountain climber (last name Healy, etc. from Massachusetts). He rapelled down the sides of the barracks building (several stories high), and slept in a hammock hung from the wall. Being as how it was the Army Hospital, he could get away with such behavior. Actually, now that I remember it, he supposedly climed one of the "K" peaks - not Everest.

I saw both of the baumlaufers in Germany; they aren't rare. What I was dissapointed in not finding is the Mauerlaufer (Wall Creeper) of the Alps. But I may have seen it at Neuschwanstein Castle, although I didn't see any red color. But I did not count it.

Phil Hotlen
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From: Joemeche at aol.com
>
> In a message dated 1/9/2007 5:36:42 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> vogelfreund at comcast.net writes:
>
> When I was stationed in Augsburg, Germany, many years ago, there was a
> fellow GI (I forget his name), who was a mountain climber. He said that when he
> climbed Everest or elsewhere in the Himalayas, that there were ravens that
> came close enough for him to smell their bad breath!
>
>
> When I was stationed in Mainz/Gonsenheim, more than a few years ago, it
> seems that everybody in my company had climbed Mt. Everest. Perhaps they were
> using metaphors to illustrate their individual conquests. No mention of ravens'
> bad breath, however. There were a few other questionable claims that made
> their way around the caserne on a regular basis.
>
> And then I tried to tell everybody about the Waldbaumlaufer that I had seen
> in the woods behind the barracks. It was almost like I had said that I
> had.....climbed Mt. Everest.
>
> Cheers,
> Joe Meche
> Bellingham
>


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