View Full Version : Hiking the Appalachian Trail -- a serious matter - Durham News
WhiteBlaze
07-01-2009, 17:00
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Lone Wolf
07-01-2009, 17:33
hiking the AT. a serious matter? for cryin' out loud :rolleyes: it's a freakin' walking path
Lemni Skate
07-01-2009, 17:51
"When you go backpacking, you don't just throw a few things in the back of the car. You buy food and fuel. You pack your backpack. You retrieve maps and guidebooks. No matter how experienced you are, you spend time and effort planning the trip. And oh yes, you do write down where you're going."
Actually, that's pretty much what I do. I throw a few things in my backpack and go. Sometimes I stop on the way and pick up one or two things I'm out of, but it seriously doesn't take me more than 15 minutes to get out the door if somebody says, "let's go backpacking."
SouthMark
07-02-2009, 10:28
hiking the AT. a serious matter? for cryin' out loud :rolleyes: it's a freakin' walking path
Just returned from Maine. Didn't walk much. Mostly climbed and scrambled.
SouthMark
07-02-2009, 10:32
LW, I almost forgot. "Lone Wolf 8/98" was scrawled on the wall of Spaulding Mtn lean-to. Thought you did not like shelters?
Rockhound
07-02-2009, 11:05
Guess she wants everyone to hike her own hike. Lots of people want to pump up their own ego by pretending that hiking the trail, part or all, is some kind of incredible, magnificent achievement fought with peril and hardship every with step. Although it is certainly something to be proud of, in the end, as LW and others have said, it's only walking. And as far as the 3 major long distance trails in the U.S. the AT is by far the easiest. It is the best marked, an abundance of shelters, lots of good water sources, resupply points never far away etc....There are far greater challenges in life than hiking the AT one can undertake such as keeping the vows made on ones wedding day and having a successful marriage even though there will be many hardships and setbacks along the way. It's one of the things I admire most about the "greatest generation" when there wasn't a divorce rate over 50%.
Rockhound
07-02-2009, 11:07
LW, I almost forgot. "Lone Wolf 8/98" was scrawled on the wall of Spaulding Mtn lean-to. Thought you did not like shelters?
I have met 3 Lonewolves and know of 1 other. Sure you got the right guy there Sherlock? I'm pretty sure you don't.
Lone Wolf
07-02-2009, 12:14
LW, I almost forgot. "Lone Wolf 8/98" was scrawled on the wall of Spaulding Mtn lean-to. Thought you did not like shelters?
i hate shelters. i wasn't in that area in 98, there are other lone wolves out there
Just returned from Maine. Didn't walk much. Mostly climbed and scrambled. last year I was amazed at how little walking I did in Maine... it was mostly on all fours and my bottom! That said, the article wasn't so much about displeasure at the Governor, but selling a new book... I have to say, I thought he was cool when I thought he actually was hiking...
SouthMark
07-02-2009, 13:45
i hate shelters. i wasn't in that area in 98, there are other lone wolves out there
I pretty much expected that that was the case but I just had to check it out with you anyway.
sherrill
07-02-2009, 14:11
Seemed to me this was nothing more than a plug for books.