by SunnyWalker » Tue Mar 19, 2013 1:46 pm
Ha, ha I thought at first it was Crazy Crook, a name that came from a famous Native American? Like Crazy Horse? Then I found out it was "Crazy Cook", not "Crazy Cr-ook". Still thought it was an Native American type of thingy. I read yesterday that the "Crazy Cook" as in the Southern Origin of CDT (just to be sure you know what we are talking about here) was a "crazy" cook! I mean, like a cook who cooks food! I guess the cook went bonko crazy, (thus earning the name "Crazy Cook") picked up an axe and murdered a fellow named Frank Evans. This happened on June 12, 1865. Supposedly at the site there were the CDT starts. One wonders what they were doing there . . . mending fence? Having a picnic or bar-b-que? Certainly in 1865 people were not hiking the CDT??!? "OK, Frances, lets keep our minds healthy on this hike we are setting out on . . .".
"Something hidden, go and find it. Go, and look behind the Ranges. Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you . . . Go!" -Rudyard Kipling