group hug

[mweinstone]

im damm proud of this community. this a place of manhugging. and womanfolk hugging. lets get on with it then. you come on here and your exspected to say you love someone. a totaly hiker huggy thread. ill start.

bag "o"tricks? commer ya big galook.oxoxoxoxmatty.


there ya go.next.

i walked 37 miles of barbwire.......who do you love?.......

[skooch]

I got big hugs for Tole and FatMan. They found me on a beautiful morning in the green tunnel last week and we had a group hug right there just a mile or so north of gooch mt shelter. Postholer.com/skooch. Do you need a hug Matt?

[jrwiesz]

...I gotta rattlesnake for a necktie...who do ya love...

OK matty, it's your "Last Waltz".:D

Hugs are good.

Just, "watch that man, oh honey, watch that man, he talks like a jerk, but, he could eat you with a spork and foon".:sun

[Tinker]

Hugs are better than.......................a lot of other things :D.

I am totally in on the group hug. :)

[Dogwood]

Screw you Matty. I'm not hugging you. Only kidding. I'll give you a hug Matty. This is the kind of outlandish stuff you come up with that I love!

I saw a video of a guy that went out to public areas to offer a hug to folks. It wasn't a goof. He thought folks might appreciate a hug. He thought close human contact in the form of a decent hug would be good for everyone. Some folks were very freaked out, skeptical, and fearful by somone offering a hug to another unknown person. Some folks would not let the guy hug them! I think his attempts told volumes of our society and culture. I think it told volumes of someone trying to positively influence society by living out: 'Be the change you wish to see in the world' - Gandhi, which to me means, if you want to change the world begin by changing yourself and then pass it on!

[Tinker]

There was a thruhiker in the late 1990s or early 2000s who went by the trail name of "The Hugger". I met him in the White Mts. while on a weekend hike and yes, I did hug him. He smelled like a thruhiker ;).

[mweinstone]

factor of matt and a matter of fact.huggs r wakked.

[Spokes]

Fascinating wiki on hugs HERE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug). According to the article dogs don't care as much for hugs as humans since they interpret the "limb over" gesture as the dominance signal.

Hmmmm...............


More hug trivia- they last 3 seconds (http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/02/01/how-long-should-a-hug-last/)on average.

[Ron Haven]

factor of matt and a matter of fact.huggs r wakked.Matty, you come up with crazy threads but I think that's why we all love ya. I'll hug you when I see you again. :banana

[Mother Natures Son]

I could use a hug right now. It's super hot and the the weather is about to get nasty at any minute. So much for a hike.

[mweinstone]

if a troll comes on here....you all know what to do, right?