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I thought that is might be fun to know what everones trailname will be. Many use their screen name, but many don't :-) Maybe add the story that goes with it!
Mine will be Wonderfoot. I got mine frome my friends who were with me 2 years ago when I was recovering from a bone transplant in my leg......and one night after 6 months in a cast, we were toasting my freedom and someone said wonderfoot instead of wonderful. Not very exciting, but there ya go!
ah, come on attroll they were funny.
Shiraz-mataz
01-29-2006, 16:35
I've been geocaching for a couple years now and my geo-handle has been "Shiraz-mataz." It's a name I made up from "Shiraz," which is my favorite fermented adult beverage from down-under, and "mataz" which, heck, is just something that rhymes... People who know me tend to shorten it to just "Shiraz" which is fine with me! I'm just a thru-hiker wannabe and section hiker in planning but perhaps the name will carry over.
It seems to me most hikers have a name long before they hit the trail. Shame. Just start hiking and a good name will find you. Seems to me to be part of the whole thruhike experience. If you don't like the first couple names people tag you with just ignore it, the name will go away. I sure as hell didn't pick Prozac but I wouldn't trade it for anything now. Besides, people always seem to move over and make room for me at a shelter when I tell my trailname is Prozac.
Big Dawg
01-29-2006, 17:11
Below is a little reading material,,, my response = post #71,, "Big Dawg,,,,, I'm BIG,,, I have 2 yellow labs & love dogs-----& am "leader of my pack"
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=56
From the thread BD quoted (slightly revised):
Boy..I've answered this question many times over the years. But..it is a good one.
The "trail name" is an 80+ year old family nickname. The last name (Magnanti)[1] trips up many people. Was "Magaroni" on the AT...but was shortened to Mags by many people anyway! My grandfather was Dom(enic) Mags, dad and brother are Steve Mags, other brother is Joey Mags[2] and I am often called Paul Mags. Many times, people will just call me Mags for short in the "real world"; at work there are two Pauls..guess what they call me? :) My friends here in Boulder will often just call me Mags as well.
Since the outdoors is such a large part of my life, having two seperate names is not that important to me. And, I think it is way cool to have a nickname that has been so long in my family. So my "trail name" was given because my last name is hard to say! :)
[1] In American English it is pronounced like bag-fan-tea. In the original Italian it is pronounced "ma-nyan-tee". The "nyan" sound is like canyon (or lasagna..mmm lasagna). Since going to Italy and meeting relatives (and practing speaking Italian with a "real Italian" friend here in town), been using the original pronounciation more. Yeah..it is easier to say "Mags"!
[2] My middle brother's band bio:http://www.hawkinsrise.com/mags_bio1.html
We share a last name, a nick name and some similar features...and not too much else. :) Love him anyway.
digger51
01-29-2006, 20:08
My trail name last year seemed to stick even off the trail so I will use it again this year. It is AU. Makes it easy for people to yell at me and as a gold prospector I dig the AU.
mweinstone
01-30-2006, 18:02
ran away to the trail in port clinton PA at 16.signed all the registers matthewski.i hate change.called mom from duncannon.stayed at the doyal for a week and ate candy and read mario puzos ' fools die ,in bed.went home.
Went to Trail Days and told a friend that my nickname all my life has been Lilred and was hoping for a different trail name. Well, when he heard my nickname was Lilred, he said that was a great trail name for me so he proceeded to introduce me to about a hundred people as Lilred, so there it is. My trail name is now Lilred. Thanks Okie, I think.....
Programbo
01-30-2006, 19:49
Trial name?..If I ever get back into good enough shape to resume some distance hiking I`ll use "Lost Star" which is a nick name I received from the original "Squeaky" Fromme
Trial name?..If I ever get back into good enough shape to resume some distance hiking I`ll use "Lost Star" which is a nick name I received from the original "Squeaky" Fromme
It all comes together now.
Little River Band song -- form my college days, as in "time for a...cool change"
Altho it's about going out alone on the water, it's the same thoughts as hiking out alone.. a journey in the wilds, albeit the AT is woods vs. water.
I spent the summer of 1978 with my boyfriend in Astoria, OR, cleaning fish at the Bumblebee tuna cannery. Our roommate worked at the shrimp cannery. Our house smelled like a cat's delight. We had three well-worn cassettes until mid-summer - all Little River Band. The AM radio station had Finnish language programming on Sundays. We were 19; without ID cards. I still am amazed I made it through in many ways, but it was a BLAST. We are now again the very best of friends....
I NEVER thought 1) I would listen to LRB again, and 2) eat tuna, 3) hang with Ed again! Surprise! Here we go! :) Sue
hello mr anderson;my name is neo:cool: neo
Nokia. You know you talk on the phone at on road crossing coming out of town and suddenly you're named after a phone. Okay so it was like 4 hours. I missed the girl what can I say?
Nokia. You know you talk on the phone at on road crossing coming out of town and suddenly you're named after a phone. Okay so it was like 4 hours. I missed the girl what can I say?
nokia is the only cell phone i have had excellent results with i just sent a LG2000 back to cingular,i am getting another nokia,you have great trail name:cool: neo
QHShowoman
01-31-2006, 11:28
Just start hiking and a good name will find you. Seems to me to be part of the whole thruhike experience.
That's kinda how I feel about it. I always thought the fun in trailnames was that your trailname selected you ... not the other way around.
I go by "QHShowoman" on here because this was my very first AOL screename. At the time, I was training and showing Quarter Horses avidly. I carried this name over to other internet forums and am commonly referred to as "Q" in lots of circles. BUT, I definitely want my trailname to be different.
Pennsylvania Rose
01-31-2006, 13:06
Got the trail name Pennsylvania Rose 16 yrs ago by 2 other hikers. They asked my trail name; I didn't have one; they asked where I was from; told them Pennsylvania; when I saw them later at the top of Justus Mtn., they said that I should be Pennsylvania Rose; that got shortened to Rosie by some. I moved to KY 15 yrs ago, so I don't feel like Pennsylvania Rose fits me, and there are several Rosies, although I'm attached to both names. Maybe the new, perfect name will come to me someday.
I got my trail name from my hiking partner. My face turns bright red when I'm hiking, so cheeks are 'rosie'..
wacocelt
01-31-2006, 15:06
Mine is Puck. In 2000 when I started SoBo I was carrying and reading a copy of Midsummer Nights Dream. A 63 yr olf yoyo'er I had met leaner my middle name is Robin and started calling me Robin Goodfellow, but shortened it to Puck. It's changed a few times, but i'm back to the original. Be well.
Puck
My wife gave me my trail name (snowhoe),because I love to snowboard and any time I check the ski report and it says that it has snowed more than 1 inch I am on my way to the lifts. So in turn she call me a hoe to the snow.