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    Default Want to hear (read) your best Hiking quotes

    Just want to hear some of the diverse things people have gathered in their brain along countless hours of trails sky and pain. Always inspirational for me!

    Heres one.

    "The AT is not about luck, but rather the willingness to put up with extreme pain with a smile on your face while somewhere very close to the fringes of sanity" -Homer&Marje Happy trails

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    Here is my motto: "Thru hike; not thru pack"

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    Walk it off, man.

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    "It's just over the next hill."
    Cabin Fever
    You need God—to hope, to care, to love, to live.

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    Here's a 232 page PDF packed with trail and wilderness-related quotes:

    http://www.sctrails.net/trails/library/Quotes.pdf

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    Quote Originally Posted by _terrapin_ View Post
    Here's a 232 page PDF packed with trail and wilderness-related quotes:
    http://www.sctrails.net/trails/library/Quotes.pdf
    Good link
    i like this quote from there........

    I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
    —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, French philosopher & writer, 1712–78
    I'm so confused, I'm not sure if I lost my horse or found a rope.

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    My own or somebody elses?

    Mine: "And people think we rough it out here"

    Other people: "No matter how hard you try, tin foil will not burn" (Rainman)

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    "Hiking is like sex. You think you can do a lot, until you get into it."
    Grampie-N->2001

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    "blue-blazing is like masturbating. everybody does it but no one admits to it."

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    There were days
    and there were days
    and there were days I know
    when all we ever wanted
    was to learn and love and grow
    Once we grew into our shoes
    we told them where to go
    walked halfway around the world
    on promise of the glow
    stood upon a mountain top
    walked barefoot in the snow
    gave the best we had to give
    how much we'll never know we'll never know

    - Days Between, Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia

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    Quote Originally Posted by _terrapin_ View Post
    Here's a 232 page PDF packed with trail and wilderness-related quotes:

    http://www.sctrails.net/trails/library/Quotes.pdf
    Thanks. I've seen that in book form, but a PDF is quite useful.

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    "Complaining is like a rocking chair, it's fun, but at the end of the day it gets you nowhere, walking faster does."
    -my parents

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    "Thru hiking is easy.... except for the hiking part" Hopeful Hiker

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    "Where in the Blue Blazes are we?"
    Moses

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    From the title of Model T (J.R. Tate's) book,
    Walking on the Happy Side of Misery

    That is difficult for a lot of people to comprehend but thru hikers, long distance hikers, and especially section hikers truly understand it.

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    The following is a collection of quotes from a Yahoo group I helped to maintain in the past.

    The group has since transitioned to a website designed and maintained in part by a thru-hiker buddy of mine now located in Boulder: Mike "d-low" DiLorenzo.
    Most of the quotes were chosen by me. I found the quotes from my readings, cribbed from other sites or just happened to hear. A few I chose for a specific day (e.g. Halloween). A few were chosen by friends when I went away on vacation and they handled the e-mail list. Most, but not all, the quotes are outdoor and/or adventure related The really oddball quotes are probably by my buddy Josh . :-D

    Have the quotes up to Spring 2006 from just before I left for the CDT. I also have extra quotes that I like and never used.

    Enjoy!

    --Paul Mags


    http://www.pmags.com/joomla/index.ph...d=40&Itemid=33
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    The true harvest of my life is intangible...a little stardust caught,a portion of the rainbow I have clutched -Thoreau

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    Getting out as much as I can..which is never enough. :) Mags's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by MOWGLI View Post
    Thanks. I've seen that in book form, but a PDF is quite useful.
    I borrowed some quotes from that PDF in the past for my own quote list.
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    While sitting, chest deep, fully clothed in Eagle Creek after being knocked off a log by Rhododendron during one of MANY crossings of the creek in the Smokies:

    "G#@ D*%# banana trees!"

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    "Do not walk in front of me, for I will not follow you. Do not walk behind me, for I will not lead you. Rather, walk beside me, and be my friend"

    -Two kids on acid (swear i wasn't one of em)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
    While sitting, chest deep, fully clothed in Eagle Creek after being knocked off a log by Rhododendron during one of MANY crossings of the creek in the Smokies:

    "G#@ D*%# banana trees!"

    Oh. (another word for crap). We're here.
    --Mags, PCT finish, Sept 2002
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