The Impersonator
08-05-2007, 11:04
Hello-
I'm looking for a local partner in crime. I need someone I can talk to seriously about a thru-hike, who would be interested in going with me. Unfortunately, no one I know in my area is insane enough to want to thru-hike the AT. I'm looking for someone local that I can eventually meet up with, swap stories, compare gear, make plans... Most importantly, a person to share my enthusiasm.
After a disheartening failed attempt (I had planned a spring of 07 nobo thru-hike, but a week in, after hiking blood mountain in a sleety, rainy, haily, finally snowy day, where half the white blazes were covered by snow, I realized I had a problem. I'd brought a craptastic sleeping bag. At Neel's Gap they basically told me that if I'd camped with the gear I brought on Blood Mountain the day I hiked it, in that weather, {with a -20 degree wind chill facter} I would have fallen into hypothermic shock and died.) I learned a valuable lesson: There's a reason people spend 150 bucks plus on sleeping bags, 250 on tents, and 200 on packs....
So I came back, and armed with the great teacher Professor Failure, I intend to return for a spring of 08 thru-hike.
If there is someone in the Fall River area interested in a 2008 thru-hike, e-mail me at [email protected]. I'm also on myspace at www.myspace.com/theimpersonator, or you can im me on aim, as BroadswordMan.
Hope to hear from you!
I'm looking for a local partner in crime. I need someone I can talk to seriously about a thru-hike, who would be interested in going with me. Unfortunately, no one I know in my area is insane enough to want to thru-hike the AT. I'm looking for someone local that I can eventually meet up with, swap stories, compare gear, make plans... Most importantly, a person to share my enthusiasm.
After a disheartening failed attempt (I had planned a spring of 07 nobo thru-hike, but a week in, after hiking blood mountain in a sleety, rainy, haily, finally snowy day, where half the white blazes were covered by snow, I realized I had a problem. I'd brought a craptastic sleeping bag. At Neel's Gap they basically told me that if I'd camped with the gear I brought on Blood Mountain the day I hiked it, in that weather, {with a -20 degree wind chill facter} I would have fallen into hypothermic shock and died.) I learned a valuable lesson: There's a reason people spend 150 bucks plus on sleeping bags, 250 on tents, and 200 on packs....
So I came back, and armed with the great teacher Professor Failure, I intend to return for a spring of 08 thru-hike.
If there is someone in the Fall River area interested in a 2008 thru-hike, e-mail me at [email protected]. I'm also on myspace at www.myspace.com/theimpersonator, or you can im me on aim, as BroadswordMan.
Hope to hear from you!