Show old plans to ride in Trail Ride ail goes well and the good Lord is willing to bless me and my I will be with you for the race to is an excerpt from a letter received by the Boys from Conrad of Gertsch goes on to am entering and Intend to ride in the race even I am 84 years I am riding and training my horse every day in the mountains west of At 84 Gertsch is still healthy and operating his own dairy A lover of the mountains he spends most of his leisure time hiking or riding his favorite pinto He has a collection of 12 one for each time lie has climbed Mt Twice he presented climbing stick as the oldest man to climb to the The last time was in He rightfully has a yen for climbing as he is a native of coming from Switzerland 1891 as a convert to the and later fulfilled a mission for the Church back to his native The of Swiss yodel-ing is loved by the people of Midway as he goes about his farm chores night and He has a complete set of Swiss cow believed to be the only ones in They are used in Switzerland when the cows are high in the Alps for the summer Following the native i Gertsch puts the on dairy herd each This has attracted many tour- 1 He was first married to Elise and later to Caroline 1 Seven of his 11 children ore still |