Yeah, and my pack weight. I imagine at the end of a long day, it will only take a couple shots of the creature to knock me on my ass, and right to sleep.Originally Posted by peakbagger
Yeah, he needs to buy that t-shirt they sells at Neels Gap "I hiked the entire width of the Appalachian Trail"If you're only going to hike 14" of the trail, you won't have much time to catch that buzz first
Then don't do it. I'd stay single for my whole life before I married someone reluctantly. People talk about cold feet, but I think that's BS. I couldn't wait to be married. The wedding itself made me nervous, sure, but if I had second thoughts about spending my life with her I wouldn't have done it. Going in with any other mindset is a recipe for disaster in my opinion.
I knew I was ready when I started thinking about it on my own and began to imagine what our lives would be like together. Marriage had always seemed to me like the way you described it; as a trap. When that perception started changing and it became something I wanted to do then I knew I had found the right girl. Now having kids is another ball game, and I'm still wrestling with that 'trap.'
Well stated. I am in total agreement until the last part; I have developed a taste for good beers, and that craving is difficult to satiate with anything other than trying new beers all the time.
I agree totally with the saying, but I take it to a different meaning; it doesn't matter if someone is drunk or sober an a-hole is an a-hole... You just see it more quickly when they're drunk. If you choose your friends wisely then a drunk friend is still a good friend. I don't mind if people get drunk around me, but that doesn't mean their behavior once drunk will be excused.
I carry a little flask of Wild Turkey, and like a couple ounces down the gullet before bedtime. I've never had anyone look at me askance for it, but then again, I tend to be liberal about sharing it with others.
But yea OP, no one is going to care.
It's your hike, Do what you want , who cares what others think
see the path cut by the moon for you to walk on
Couldn't agree more Bird Brain...Married 24 years yesterday
during my section hike from springer to damascus, i would say the majority of hikers i came across "enhanced" their journey at one point or another.
That doesn't sound like alcohol to me.
wasnt limiting it to any particular substance. alcohol can be used for medicinal purposes as well, you know.That doesn't sound like alcohol to me.
Oh were goin to enhancements....I'll bow out before I get kicked out....
I have no problem with anyone enjoying a nip or two from time to time. On my last hike with my family, we arrived at the shelter to find a bunch of guys out for the weekend. They already had a fire going and were quite polite and sociable. After we had finished dinner they left the fire they made and walked off down the trail a bit out of sight. I became worried that perhaps we had offended them somehow or the kids were talking their ears off. Well, after a piece they came back and explained they had a tradition on the trail but didn't want to pass the bottle in front of the kids. I assured them it wasn't a problem with our kids (they've seen almost everything under the sun on the trail already) but I appreciated the sentiment all the same.
2,000 miler. Still keepin' on keepin' on.
I like to call that "performance enhancers" and or "herbal inspiration"
OP, dont worry about what everyone else is doing. Sorry you are being forced to marry. I was lucky enough to marry a thruhiker so we hike very often. Nothing better than bein on the trail and in the same tent with the one that matters most in my life. Nothing beats that!!!!
With that attitude, you're bound to be a great husband........
I'm with you on that. I've been married almost 17 yrs, and I've felt trapped all of zero minutes.
You will be fine. I never saw as much alcohol and weed anywhere in life as I did on the trail.
One of the reasons I hike is to detox--I abstain from all drugs, including caffeine and alcohol, and even OTC meds. I don't carry Vitamin I and have never used it on a hike. I get more funny looks when I turn down coffee than when I turn down beer. I'm very sensitive to caffeine and don't like hiking with any kind of buzz.
That's my opinion. If you hadn't asked, I wouldn't have said a thing, and I feel it's your absolute right to enjoy alcohol responsibly on the trail.
"Throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence." John Muir on expedition planning
I think if I were to thru-hike, I'd do the same. Before I started, I'd have to detox from the coffee. Wouldn't want to do that on the trail. I probably would carry vitamin I though.
dude if you feel you are being forced into marriage take it from me run run like the wind hell run like mexican water through a tourist but freakin run. use the trail as your race track but RUN.
i agree. chew your own arm off if you have to
Alcohol is fine as long as it doesn't get out of hand, and that sort of thing can real fast.
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