Shorty! Shorty! Haiku is not a shorty and neither am I. Five foot three is a perfectly respectable height. Our feet reach the floor and everything! Of course, I did have to hunt high and low for a "short torso" pack that I liked . . .

As a diminutive friend of mine from Ireland once told me, "Anyone shorter than me is a dwarf, anyone taller is a mutant."

(Haiku, how is the food/rope tossing coming? I can't hang a bag to save my life. I always get my intrepid hiking partner, my sister, to do it. She is a whopping five foot four.)