Oh I don't know. I tend to think hicks know more about music...
Hip hop artist = not hicks
Various early 20th cent southern hicks = finest musicians ever produced.
Oh I don't know. I tend to think hicks know more about music...
Hip hop artist = not hicks
Various early 20th cent southern hicks = finest musicians ever produced.
igne et ferrum est potentas
"In the beginning, all America was Virginia." -William Byrd
If you really wanted to be alone, fly you & yer pack to the High Sierras then travel "off trail' cross country, fish, bounce out of the woods for a resupply here & there then dig back in . What a Crazy Amazing Place to disappear for a few months!!
Take Time to Watch the Trees Dance with The Wind........Then Join In........
[QUOTE=Marta;1521229]Uh oh....
To the OP's statements:
Hiking the AT is completely optional. No one is required to do it.
If you think that it is easy because several thousand people have done it, you are wrong. It is physically challenging to cover that many miles on foot, and it is mentally challenging to keep at the task for long enough to complete it.
Want to make it more difficult? Do what I did, loose your damn glasses on a section hike! LOL. I just came back from ten days in Maine, had an awesome 100 mile wilderness experience in less than that; got annoyed at all the 'connected' people and their electronics (one a hole had a kindle fire in the shelter). In that case, move on and tent. You're carrying all you need to survive right? Plenty of open space and go SOBO like Just Bill says in off season. Anyway, this is a useless post now since some baby, the OP, was crying about not manning up to the deed. Oh, get really bad blisters too. I need my glasses for distance, made seeing the next blaze an amazing feet in itself! LOL. Ugh!
I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains...
~ John Muir ~
Are you all still throwing this thread around?
Don't take anything I say seriously... I certainly don't.
My head hurts trying to figure this out, you don’t want to be around people, you won’t quit your job, you have to be fired, you don’t want to interact with any social aspects of hiking the AT, but if you see people they shouldn’t be the ones you just saw, you don’t want a trail name, and you don’t want to be part of; God forbid ,something a Women has done, and you want to do something no one else has done but will not have learned anything about yourself. So why did you post this so more than a thousand hikers could see it ?
"Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, smoldering and totally worn out, shouting...Holy S*#t...what a ride"
he's passive suicidal !
I'm so confused, I'm not sure if I lost my horse or found a rope.
I can see how it would be tough for him to keep a job having to work around people, and unfortunately there aren't many jobs that don't involve others.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
not true at all Max Patch. It isn't the same as someone reading a book with a head lamp. Books don't have noise. Books don't have moving figures; and it gets so quiet that the smallest things can be heard; even ear plugs. Plus, etiquette in shelters depicts limited head lamp use. Etiquette on the AT has changed drastically since my 2000 thru hike. When people didn't go with the flow of others then, i.e., limited use of volume on ear plugs and limited use of lamps, they would tent. A lot of you people are oblivious of other people's environments that are connected. Too many people are all about 'them' with the 'I' mentality; whereas, when a person is backpacking there is a complete connection of 'us' and not the singular person and everything being about them. With the use of the kindle fire it was uncalled for. Many go in the woods to disconnect and this is a complete intrusion on the majority.
I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains...
~ John Muir ~
If the OP is serious, he may want to study this Amazing dude, Dick Proenneke living in the Alaska wilderness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss, !!
Take Time to Watch the Trees Dance with The Wind........Then Join In........
The Sierra High Route is what you seek.
"eastern rain is made of skittles and one need only pack an appetite." - mweinstone
One of my favorite books is his:
http://www.amazon.com/One-Mans-Wilde.../dp/0882405136
There's a followup book that I haven't read yet that I really should.
Don't take anything I say seriously... I certainly don't.