You have long conversations with your hiking staff ... at home.
76 HawkMtn w/Rangers
14 LHHT
15 Girard/Quebec/LostTurkey/Saylor/Tuscarora/BlackForest
16 Kennerdell/Cranberry-Otter/DollyS/WRim-NCT
17 BearR
18-19,22 AT NOBO 1562.2
22 Hadrian's Wall
23 Cotswold Way
When you cannot excercise self control over food anymore
When you have lost control of the ability to postpone bowel movements
When the workers at the UPS store know you due to the constant return of packages to runningwarehouse.com and zappos.com
When youve slept in a bathroom to be out of the rain or cold
When you manage your employment, around your hiking, and not vice-versa.
Last edited by MuddyWaters; 01-24-2015 at 00:49.
LOVE!!Originally Posted by Seatbelt
Also, when you have multiple backpacks and look at each one fondly as you remember the miles and trips. They're never getting thrown out!
When, instead of scheming up summer trips during the winter from the couch, you daydream of them while you are winter hiking.
When you are an experienced expert all of the trailheads within an 1.5 hour radius of your house...even though you live in a suburban area.
You get into vicious screaming arguments over who's stove is best.
"It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how." ---Dr. Seuss
When the neighbors come to your house after a storm and power's been off several days because they know you "have all that stuff to make life a little easier" (ie gas stove, food, warm clothing, sleeping bags, etc.)
When packing up your gear in preparation for a hike is just as much fun as the hike itself.
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WHAT! this isn't normal? Goes right along with eating MRE's while watching TV
"You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace;the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands."
Isaiah 55:12
real hiker
You are a real hiker when you have done it and learned to not be judgemental about others. You know slack packers are hiking too. Anyone who has hiked the AT can appreciate that.
This framed map of the AT has been in my home for at least 14 years... $4.95 map, $70 frame.
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Biggie
They sell toilet paper that way, now. Bet it was the idea of an ultra-light backpacker!
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3035088/a...cardboard-tube
"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." - T.S. Eliot
you're a real hiker if you're too busy hiking to post on forums
I'm so confused, I'm not sure if I lost my horse or found a rope.
When you don't care how anyone else defines a "real hiker".
Biggie
You are a hiker when your wife slaps you on the back of the head for licking your fingers, your plate and the silver ware at one of the finer restaurants in your area.
Rolls
Last edited by Rolls Kanardly; 01-27-2015 at 13:06.
Rolls down the hill, Kanardly hike up the other hill
May all your hikes have clear skies, fair winds and no rocks under your pad.
Your a real hiker when... you go for your first hike.
you're a real hiker when... you look forward to a big storm ,because you might have an excuse to break out your gear.
You're a real hiker when you're on the trail and not on an Internet forum.
A friend said you are not a real hiker until you lose a toenail
When you look at the condiment packages wherever you go to requisition required items - like Gray Poupon mustard packs (Amtrak)
In the supermarket you focus on the weight of no cook food...............NOPE, those apricots would be way too heavy to consider
I'll be on the forums for a while, I may be a real hiker, but I'm also a new parent...
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Congratulations Elf, Life is Wonderful!I'll be on the forums for a while, I may be a real hiker, but I'm also a new parent...
Your a real hiker when you banned from TOS.
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