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Please indicate your current status.
warraghiyagey
12-13-2007, 19:40
My current status? Hmm. Single but for ever in love with my girlfriend that nudged me gracefully toward the trail.
And there's no category for someone who starts over from Katahdin every year but has yet to finish.
Actually I'm glad I don't fall into any of those categories. Thru hike will happen when it's meant to.
I'm thinking SOBO8.:)
This question came up about members, guests, members who never post, or dont think they have the experience to have serious input.
I was wondering how many of us have real "experience" hiking. I know many here have thrud (and some more than once, and more than one trail!)
But this is to get a better idea of who's out here!
My current status? Hmm. Single but for ever in love with my girlfriend that nudged me gracefully toward the trail.
And there's no category for someone who starts over from Katahdin every year but has yet to finish.
Actually I'm glad I don't fall into any of those categories. Thru hike will happen when it's meant to.
I'm thinking SOBO8.:)
I guess "do-overs" should count for something! Sorry to have left you out!
How about Section Hikers in present tense and Thru-hikers in future tense.:)
warraghiyagey
12-13-2007, 21:06
I guess "do-overs" should count for something! Sorry to have left you out!
Well in your defense,I don't think there's alot of folks out there
that have followed the same ummmm, path. . . let's say.:)
But again, SOBO8 for sure.
The Mechanical Man
12-13-2007, 21:08
How many years have you been hiking the AT?
For myself it 23 years hiking the AT, 18 years volunteering.
That is all good time well spent.
warraghiyagey
12-13-2007, 21:08
How about Section Hikers in present tense and Thru-hikers in future tense.:)
That would be options 3 and 4 respectively.
so who picked the colors? i would be currently orange, longing to be navy blue.
warraghiyagey
12-13-2007, 21:13
??????????
AT-HITMAN2005
12-13-2007, 21:33
thrud in 05 going again in 08 as a sherpa for my wife.
No question to fit me on the that survey. I camp a lot and hike some (as much as my knees allow) but I don’t think I will ever do the AT, but I go out in Ohio and Michigan’s UP a lot.
My current status?
If you are a mentally balanced, hot looking and rich woman I’m here for you.
I know the mentally balanced thing is a stretch for a woman, but one can always hope…
We call them LASH's and SLASH's (Long Ass Section Hikes and Super-Long Ass Section Hikes ...) since it's not technically a thru if you blue-blazed, yellow blazed, finished a section the following year etc. etc.
Frolicking Dinosaurs
12-13-2007, 21:40
Section wobbling down the trail slowly.
warraghiyagey
12-13-2007, 21:41
. . .
I know the mentally balanced thing is a stretch for a woman, but one can always hope…
And there goes any chance you might have had.:p
And there goes any chance you might have had.:p
I was trying to work on an appropriate response, but yours suits it!
warraghiyagey
12-13-2007, 21:52
I was trying to work on an appropriate response, but yours suits it!
Thank you.:)
Started a nobo thru in 1990 and quit the trail near a few days north of Pearisburg. Hiked from Katahdin to Monson later that year. In the late '90s, began doing section hikes. Short ones at first, typically 35 miles or so, but gradually getting longer. Generally working southward from New England. Finished the **%^#@ thing with a 40-day, 587 mile section this summer, ending at the same spot where I quit on June 2, 1990.
The Whites complicate the story... I started hiking the Whites in the mid 1970s or so, but without any thought to thru-hiking -- and barely conscious of the AT itself. As part of my thru-hike "training" in 1989, I hiked known "gaps" between Moosilauke and Gorham. But there are a few sections (eg. the Presidential range) that I haven't hiked since... oh, the late 1970s or early 1980s or so. So I'm not really sure I should call it a 17-year effort or a 30-year effort. But hey, it's done, and I'm content.
Oh, and truth be told, I never did hike Pond Mountain. I blame LW for that. He knows the story.
Only hiked a few short sections of the AT. Hiked several trail here in Indiana. Trying to talk the wife into letting me get to the AT more.
Footslogger
12-13-2007, 22:19
GA -> ME 2003
'Slogger
We call them LASH's and SLASH's (Long Ass Section Hikes and Super-Long Ass Section Hikes ...) since it's not technically a thru if you blue-blazed, yellow blazed, finished a section the following year etc. etc.
SLASH=Super-Long Ass Section Hikes. I like it! "What's your trail name?" "Slasher" :eek:
Doughnut
12-13-2007, 22:42
thru hiker in planning, section hiking in shakedowns.
Dough Nut
Jan LiteShoe
12-13-2007, 23:01
GA -> ME 2003
'Slogger
You got it, baby!
"The Wet Year," ha ha!
:banana
Footslogger
12-13-2007, 23:05
You got it, baby!
"The Wet Year," ha ha!
:banana
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WARNING: THREAD SWERVE ...
Hey Liteshoe ...have I told you how GREAT your book (Ordinary Adventurer) is ???
'Slogger
Jan LiteShoe
12-13-2007, 23:12
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WARNING: THREAD SWERVE ...
Hey Liteshoe ...have I told you how GREAT your book (Ordinary Adventurer) is ???
'Slogger
Spoken like a loyal '03 brother !!!
:D
Sorry, Cuffs, the cookie dough made me do it! Back to you.
As long as cookie dough is involved (and you share!) its all good!
Jan, we must have passed each other on the morning of August 9 in Vermont in 2002. You were nobo from North Adams; I was sobo from Hanover. On the 9th, you and Clyde walked from Little Rock Pond to Clarendon and I walked from Greenwall to Griffith Lake.
I must be getting senile because it's taken a lot of mental gyrations to figure that out -- from your book, my diary, and in the absence of maps. I still remember how hot it was for most of that trip.
Oh, and for the Nth time... I thoroughly enjoyed your book (and the hug.) Truly one of the best & most entertaining journals I've read.
If you are a mentally balanced, hot looking and rich woman I’m here for you.
I know the mentally balanced thing is a stretch for a woman, but one can always hope…
Well, that explains why you are still available. I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.