Brother, can you spare a dime?

[Slo-go'en]

Meet a thru-hiker soliciting "donations" to finish his thru-hike. He was standing with a sign near the entrance to the Gorham, NH Wal-Mart. I gave him 5 bucks.

See, that is what happens when you don't budget enough money for a thru-hike. Hope his ticket home is pre-paid or he could be stuck in Maine for the winter!

[Fiddleback]

We have 'solicitors' outside our WalMart more often than not...varied signs, varied stories. But they haven't yet used an AT-thru on their story boards...perhaps because it's Missoula. If tapping the backpacking community becomes a new source maybe I'll see a CDT sign pop up but it's kinda late in the season.

FB

[Hooch]

Meet a thru-hiker soliciting "donations" to finish his thru-hike. He was standing with a sign near the entrance to the Gorham, NH Wal-Mart. I gave him 5 bucks.

See, that is what happens when you don't budget enough money for a thru-hike. Hope his ticket home is pre-paid or he could be stuck in Maine for the winter!

There's a great place to get funds to finish a thru-hike. It's called a job.

[Pedaling Fool]

Some people just have no sense of self respect.

[Pedaling Fool]

I gave him 5 bucks.

Haven't you ever heard that you shouldn't feed the "wildlife"

[Pony]

There's a guy out here that's real proud of the fact that he left Springer with $200 and is now about to finish his thru hike by relying on the "generosity" of others.

[Reid]

I got hustled by a little kid one time in a walmart parking lot . I think his mom put him up to it. I pushed him down and kicked his stand over. There ain't no princess padgets in January. . . . . So at least this guys not out there roaming the earth for crack or anything aye?

[Danielsen]

There's a great place to get funds to finish a thru-hike. It's called a job.

Standing in front of a business where it's not too hard to get a short term job with a sign about how you lack sufficient money does seem rather questionable, indeed.

[Luddite]

Meet a thru-hiker soliciting "donations" to finish his thru-hike. He was standing with a sign near the entrance to the Gorham, NH Wal-Mart. I gave him 5 bucks.

See, that is what happens when you don't budget enough money for a thru-hike. Hope his ticket home is pre-paid or he could be stuck in Maine for the winter!

I really hope that doesn't happen to me. I'll probably have enough money to make it but I might be homeless until I find a job after my thru-hike. I don't think I'd ever pan handle though...I think I'd rather go hungry.

[Roughin' It]

Meet a thru-hiker soliciting "donations" to finish his thru-hike. He was standing with a sign near the entrance to the Gorham, NH Wal-Mart. I gave him 5 bucks.

See, that is what happens when you don't budget enough money for a thru-hike. Hope his ticket home is pre-paid or he could be stuck in Maine for the winter!

I bet him trailname was Stryder, a young kid with curly hair.

[Gray Blazer]

There's a great place to get funds to finish a thru-hike. It's called a job.

That's pretty harsh. Here is this guy wanting hope AND change (especially change) and you want him to work?

[sbhikes]

When I was doing my hike there was a guy who hiked with a ukulele. He was really good. He was just minding his business strumming out near the grocery store waiting for his friends to finish shopping and someone gave him $20. I suggest that busking may be a little more respectable than panhandling.

[Hooch]

Yep, and if he was any kind of man, he'd want to work, too. Of course, it's much easier to throw your dignity in the crapper and beg for handouts and depend on others for something instead of working hard for it.

[Mountain Wildman]

Meet a thru-hiker soliciting "donations" to finish his thru-hike. He was standing with a sign near the entrance to the Gorham, NH Wal-Mart. I gave him 5 bucks.

See, that is what happens when you don't budget enough money for a thru-hike. Hope his ticket home is pre-paid or he could be stuck in Maine for the winter!

There was a guy in the same place a couple weeks ago with a sign (Anything Helps), He had worn and ripped clothes and no shoes, He did have a little duffle bag which probably had his 3 piece suit in it(just kidding), He said he needed money to get to The Rainbow Gathering at the New Hampshire/Vermont Line.

[Lybarger]

Some people just have no sense of self respect.

He will fit right in with todays society.

[jesse]

Slo go'en, he got $5 more from you than he would have gotten from me.

[IronGutsTommy]

that was prolly him posting.. still stuck in New Hampshire I see.

maybe he gots himself a jobby job at that there Wal Mart, I tell you what.

[Slo-go'en]

Slo go'en, he got $5 more from you than he would have gotten from me.

Ah well, sometimes I'm in a charitable mood.

[max patch]

You know he spent it on MD 20/20.

[Luddite]

You know he spent it on MD 20/20.

Or Wild Irish Rose.