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As he had a few minutes, Bob just called me from Warren's. Here's what
he reported:
(Sorry that it's so willy nilly, but that's how the conversation was -
jumping around.)
The school is difficult and challenging. Bob is the only student. Bob
says it's very hard, and if he hadn't prepared before hand he'd never have
made it.
Doyle is intellectual, very knowledgeable, and much of his knowledge is
esoteric. Bob has already taken 60 pages of notes. The classes are very
concentrated. The first day was 12 hours, with a 4 hour hike. Today was a
10 hour day, with a 2 hour hike. The 'classes' involve teaching, videos,
and the hiking - and during the hike Warren is teaching the whole way.
Warren is very safety conscious, and Bob said that he hasn't been
obnoxious even if he is a little different.
The food is good. (Bob is a Vegetarian.)
Bob's last emphatic statement: "I promise that if you do not
prepare for this school, you cannot make it. Period." (Make it
through the school he means.) Although, he claims Warren hasn't pushed him
past his limits. (I've never known Bob to have too many limits...)
Warren has talked him into slackpacking the entire trail. He did this
by a combination appeal to 'people your age are hiking the trail like
this, and this is how people your age are going to hike' (Bob is 60+). The
other ploy was, "Your wife can be your support team, and she can pick
you up at the road every day." (Bob hasn't liked the idea of leaving
his wife, which I can respect.) All three of them (Warren, Bob, and his
wife) are now very keen on the idea.
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