MinnesotaSmith Update

**Lone Wolf** · 05-01-2006, 11:57

He left town around 5:00 PM yesterday.

**Just Jeff** · 05-01-2006, 12:44

Originally Posted by mweinstone

...i loved my 9 weeks and ill simply return in 07 with a plan that doesnt include borrowing the cash from a credit card...ill do this thing my own way and it may take some time. its worth it...

Bet that was a tough decision, but probably the right one. Respect, man - I bet after your hike next year you'll still think it was worth it to do it your own way.

**Rain Man** · 05-01-2006, 14:03

Originally Posted by L. Wolf

Well Minnesotasmith made it to Damascus, he hunted me down at Dot's and I bought him dinner. He is one likeable sumbitch!

He WILL make it.

Glad to hear that! L. Wolf, thanks for the update and sharing the info.

And my best to MS out on the trail.

Rain

Man

.

**mweinstone** · 05-01-2006, 17:14

and lone wolf had to like him cause any one who belives women are more beautiful in a dress is cool like that. he told me once , any woman in any dress rather than pants, turnes his head a million times faster .and i new we had a winner.he also can exsplaine why women are 400 times more bitchy than they used to be. cause they used to have 10 menstrule cycles in a life and now have 400. due he exsplaines to nursing and pregnancy causing a smaller number of cycles and they were like that more offten back then in the olden days.stuff like this is what he knows about. and he has a good idea of how the dollar will fail and the end will come. hes the type who will end up alive in a mad max world. his head is on straight and hes humble enough.just.

**MOWGLI** · 05-01-2006, 17:57

Originally Posted by mweinstone

and i new we had a winner.he also can exsplaine why women are 400 times more bitchy than they used to be. cause they used to have 10 menstrule cycles in a life and now have 400. due he exsplaines to nursing and pregnancy causing a smaller number of cycles and they were like that more offten back then in the olden days.stuff like this is what he knows about. and he has a good idea of how the dollar will fail and the end will come. hes the type who will end up alive in a mad max world. his head is on straight and hes humble enough.just.

Cue the Twilight Zone music.

**Nean** · 05-01-2006, 18:06

He also thought Hot Springs would be a great town.... if only it had a Wal-Mart. Get back w/ me when his days on the trail outnumber his days in town.

**max patch** · 05-01-2006, 20:27

Originally Posted by mweinstone

and lone wolf had to like him cause any one who belives women are more beautiful in a dress is cool like that. he told me once , any woman in any dress rather than pants, turnes his head a million times faster .and i new we had a winner.he also can exsplaine why women are 400 times more bitchy than they used to be. cause they used to have 10 menstrule cycles in a life and now have 400. due he exsplaines to nursing and pregnancy causing a smaller number of cycles and they were like that more offten back then in the olden days.stuff like this is what he knows about. and he has a good idea of how the dollar will fail and the end will come. hes the type who will end up alive in a mad max world. his head is on straight and hes humble enough.just.

I wish I hadn't read this.

I had started to like MS.

Now I think he's a nut job.

**Heater** · 05-01-2006, 20:41

Originally Posted by max patch

I wish I hadn't read this.

I had started to like MS.

Now I think he's a nut job.

But entertaining, though.

**Mags** · 05-02-2006, 11:04

Maybe tin foil hats shoulf be stocked in trail towns?

**Heater** · 05-02-2006, 11:25

Originally Posted by Mags

Maybe tin foil hats shoulf be stocked in trail towns?

I just pack it. Mine weight less than 1/10th of an ounce. It's so light that sometimes I forget I'm wearing it!!!

**shades of blue** · 05-02-2006, 11:36

On a personal basis, I have a difficult time with someone who has such strong (odd to me)opinions on women and other subjects. As a hiker, I hope that he is able to overcome things and make it to Katahdin. I think it would change some parts of him...but other parts would need a higher power than the trail to fix. Conventional wisdom would say that he doesn't stand a chance in you know where....with his pack weight, water issues, issues on bacteria and other things. However, he seems determined, and will is a huge part of finishing a hike. He does seem to have that in spades. I don't see how he can make it....but I wouldn't bet against him (not trying to bring back that betting thing).

**Skyline** · 05-02-2006, 15:00

Originally Posted by shadesofblue68

On a personal basis, I have a difficult time with someone who has such strong (odd to me)opinions on women and other subjects. As a hiker, I hope that he is able to overcome things and make it to Katahdin. I think it would change some parts of him...but other parts would need a higher power than the trail to fix. Conventional wisdom would say that he doesn't stand a chance in you know where....with his pack weight, water issues, issues on bacteria and other things. However, he seems determined, and will is a huge part of finishing a hike. He does seem to have that in spades. I don't see how he can make it....but I wouldn't bet against him (not trying to bring back that betting thing).

Maybe the AT will mellow him a bit. There is often a wide gulf between a person's internet personality and his trail personality. From posts here and in journals, it would seem early on MS could not separate the two and was giving fellow hikers the same miserable time in the woods as he has online. But more recently not so much. A kind of Trail Magic all its own may be in the making. Time will tell.

**mweinstone** · 05-02-2006, 19:59

minisoa smith is a plain old good guy. dont be scared by people who have opinions. so women are bitchy. so periods have incresed. so what? do you kill the messenger or learn to learn?

**max patch** · 05-02-2006, 20:35

Originally Posted by mweinstone

minisoa smith is a plain old good guy. dont be scared by people who have opinions. so women are bitchy. so periods have incresed. so what? do you kill the messenger or learn to learn?

Skewed sample.

M S singlehandedly makes the women that comes in contact with him bitchy is my guess.

**neo** · 05-03-2006, 20:25

Originally Posted by L. Wolf

He left town around 5:00 PM yesterday.

did you introduce him to hillary

neo

**weary** · 05-03-2006, 21:44

Originally Posted by max patch

Skewed sample.

M S singlehandedly makes the women that comes in contact with him bitchy is my guess.

Yeah. But that was before he became a thru hiker. There is nothing like attempting a 2,175-mile walk to change one's thinking.

**MOWGLI** · 05-03-2006, 21:47

I hear old MS is a charter member of the He-Man Woman Haters Club.

**Sly** · 05-03-2006, 21:58

Yeah. But that was before he became a thru hiker. There is nothing like attempting a 2,175-mile walk to change one's thinking.

Becoming and attempting are two different things. Lots of hikers reach Damascus, less make it to Maine.

**neo** · 05-03-2006, 21:59

Originally Posted by Sly

Becoming and attempting are two different things. Lots of hikers reach Damascus, less make it to Maine.

wow what a babe

neo

**weary** · 05-03-2006, 22:03

Originally Posted by Sly

Becoming and attempting are two different things. Lots of hikers reach Damascus, less make it to Maine.

Yup. But I sense he will pull it off, barring a serious injury. I hope so, anyway.

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