Roly Poly

Post date: Jul 01, 2016 11:34:54 AM

I met a hiker within the last week named Tody Pody. She is probably in her early twenties. She says she has thru hiked from Springer, but looks unlike the typical hiker that has made it this far. She is overweight and walks in a funny knock kneed way, slowly making her way down the trail, and had black horned rimmed glasses that sat crooked on her face. And she falls a lot. The first day I met her we were hiking down a rocky section. I came up behind her and soon after she was in my view, down she went. I asked if she was alright, and she kind of chuckled and said, "oh yeah, I fall all the time." I asked if she had been hurt in a fall and she said no, never. And indeed her legs didn't have a scratch on them. Later, after I passed her, I was resupplying my water at a stream and she came along and decided to do the same, and promptly fell on the slippery rocks in the stream, again not hurting herself. I again went ahead of her and decided to stay at the next shelter. There I met a guy named Tony from Hudson, Wisconsin who became Rock who was doing a two week section hike. A bit later along came Tody Pody, and I somehow had remembered her name as Roly Poly and introduced her to Rock. She looked at me out of the corner of her eye through crooked glasses and a not happy look on her face and said, "I'm NOT Roly Poly, I'm Tody Pody." She didn't stay upset, and proceeded to educate Rock about all the details of a thru hike- "anyone can do it, all you have to be able to do is walk". At the end I admired her tenacity