tis one of my many talents!Originally Posted by L. Wolf
You be a s**t stirrer!
I'll bet his ears are burning. MS is a little, shall we say, uncomfortable with the term "yellowblaze". I believe him 100% when he says he will go back and pick up the mileage he skipped, but he refuses to call his jump foreward "yellowblazing".yup, he YELLOW-BLAZED!!! and now he's SLACKPACKING!!!!
That's my dog, Echo. He's a fine young dog.
3 pages since i went to work
so,.........non of you work.nice............
matthewski
It isn't yellowblazing until you say you finished, and didn't.
I was a maintainer for over a year; don't know about young, but I feel 23.............every night.
That must be the reason he gets defensive about it. He has put a ton of work into his hike this year and I hope he achieves his goal.It isn't yellowblazing until you say you finished, and didn't.
That's my dog, Echo. He's a fine young dog.
I saw M S in glencliff
he was slacking outta the hostle... doing a 9 mile day
i saw minnisota smith...
with your girlfriend.......he was doin a zero.
matthewski
That ain't right
I doubt you've actually seen her. I mean surely to goodness the guy is not dating a zero. She must be at least a 3 or 4.
CT
your right
ive lost my flair. im having a writters cramp. i may be forced to take some time off and come up with some new matirial.im just not gettin any laughs. i thaught if i did some negitive comments it might get me started. but thats never been my style. i need to berate in an engraciating way. im telling you ive lost my touch .its the irs. there upseting my humor gland. see,............humor gland,..........thats dead,..........i got nodda.
matthewski
i'm with you SGT Rock. shelters suck.
and Minnesota Smith, if you wanted all the creature comforts of home on the trail, why didn't you just stay at home? you're like the all the folks that move from the city to the country, and then want gated subdivisions and paved roads. ***, why not just stay in the city and not bring all that city crap to those of us in the country that want the country to stay just how it is? the trail is wilderness. if you provide a home away from home every 6 to 12 miles then what's the point? it ain't supposed to be easy. if it were, everyone would do it and it wouldn't be special to anyone now would it? dude, if you wanna go home, call it quits, go home, and be happy. and get this, it's not up to you to decide how the trail should be. it is there for you to use in all of it's splendor. you either like it as it is or don't hike on it. there are folks who are much smarter and well versed in trail issues than you that make those decisions. do you think they give a rats ass that you don't like how the trail is laid out or maintained. get real.
don't like logging? try wiping with a pine cone.
that's the disease that caused ***edupedness.
don't like logging? try wiping with a pine cone.
Delivered by the moosecock
where is moosec,.. i mean minnisota smith now?
and why are you guys so cocky? i understand one of you is a dickhead and one is a moosecock,.. but after that im lost. now,... where is he please dances?
matthewski
Remembering the big picture, putting it all in context, etc.
Mr. Smith has now passed the six month anniversary of being on the Trail fulltime. If he really missed the creature comforts of civilization, or hated what he's doing, he would have aborted his hike long ago. He's out there living his dream. Along the way he's dealt with extremes of cold, heat, floods, drought and bugs and is now dealing with the Whites. Just like every other hiker. And like every other hiker he's got a few gripes about this'n'that.
Six months is a long time. I tried to see him off at Springer but my van got stuck in the snow on the way to meet him. Now it's almost Labor Day and he's taken no long breaks or vacations from the Trail. When he's done he will have hiked in all four seasons. The good parts of the Trail must far outweigh the bad because if he thought it was too much to handle he'd be back already. But he's not coming back until he's done and you know I'm willing to bet on it.
Nobody dwells much on the thanks he's given to those who've helped him along the way, but he's very sincerely acknowledged the help he's gotten.
It's his hike. Each hiker seems to have a few complaints, maybe about different subjects than he's chosen but that's really a difference in style rather than substance. He's hiking his hike. Isn't that what everyone says he should be doing?
Last edited by Dances with Mice; 08-29-2006 at 20:43.
You never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns
When they all did tricks for you.
Great post, DWM.
woo hoo
HALF A YEAR on the Trail.
Go Minnesota, go.
Another posting milestone...
Just wondering, since I'm too lazy to do the math: does MS have more Trail miles, or do we Whiteblazers have more posts? Which will reach 2174.6 (or 2178, by some people's count) first?
Slackpacking sucks. Especially Moosialauke and beyond.
True, but it sure beats working.....
It ain't work. It's pleasure. I've never slack-packed, at least by todays standards. My first year on the AT my trail name was The Yankee Slackpacker. It meant just that. You slacked off. Left town at noon. hiked 4 or 5 miles and called it a day. Benton smiled. Hostels suck.
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