Fun question.

An almost-famous encounter. I was hiking the Yosemite backcountry south of Tuolumne Meadows in the summer of '84 when we encountered an older man and younger woman. We stopped to chat, first about hiking then the subject switched to the recently finshed Olympics. She seemed to have a lot of firsthand information about the games so I asked whether she was a participant. No, as it turned out, but her brother won a cycling bronze and her sister-in-law a cycling gold. They were Davis Phinney's father and sister, Connie Carpenter-Phinney's inlaws.

I don't chat much with others no the trail so all the famous folks I've seen remain anonymous.

I did know Galen Rowell, ever so slightly.

Cheers,