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ZEKE #2
12-18-2008, 19:18
I tried a thru in 2008 and got 700 miles. Is it too early to start a thread for us middle aged persons that are planning on hiking after retirement?

KG4FAM
12-18-2008, 20:00
What about us younguns who are going to have a midlife crisis, can we throw our hats in as well?

ChinMusic
12-18-2008, 20:18
I'm 50 myself and have 2013 as a target. Don't scare me with this 2025 stuff.......lol

ZEKE #2
12-19-2008, 10:01
All are welcome. The trail is there for everyone!

Cabin Fever
12-19-2008, 10:17
2025 sounds about like when I will finish section hiking!

Lilred
12-19-2008, 16:50
2025 sounds about like when I will finish section hiking!

LOL I was thinking the same thing. Although, I wouldn't mind being in the class of 2025

ChinMusic
12-19-2008, 17:13
I keep thinking:

"In the year 2525
If man is still alive"

Jack Tarlin
12-19-2008, 17:33
ZEKE:

I think it's great that you're looking that far ahead.

That being said, I see that you're fifty now, which would make you 67 in the year 2025.

If at all possible, I'd try really hard to thru-hike before you're 67.

Alligator
12-19-2008, 17:49
I'll be ready to go, I'll only be 39:bse.

wdy_bnckr
12-19-2008, 19:11
Hi Jack.. That sounds like good advice but I let 67 pass me by while I was working and am planning on SOBO next year in June. Any advice..

Hikerhead
12-19-2008, 19:11
I might be in this class if I live to see it. 2025 is suppose to be my retirement year. I hope that I can retire before then and I pray that it doesn't move back.

KG4FAM
12-19-2008, 19:16
If at all possible, I'd try really hard to thru-hike before you're 67.Isn't that about when Model T started thru hiking ?

Chenango
12-19-2008, 20:29
2025? Yikes. I would 70! And I thought waiting to 2013 is an eternity.

Feral Bill
12-19-2008, 21:53
Barring unexpected suddden wealth, which is, sadly, not likely, I'm in for 2118. Maybe 2117 as a southbound. Meanwhile I'll enjoy hiking in the Northwest. Any interest in a more general discusion of the needs of us older hikers?

mudhead
12-20-2008, 07:22
Any interest in a more general discusion of the needs of us older hikers?

Fine thread title. How's snowpack?

4eyedbuzzard
12-20-2008, 07:41
Barring unexpected suddden wealth, which is, sadly, not likely, I'm in for 2118. Maybe 2117 as a southbound...

2117...2118? That'll make you what, about 165? You might want to consider going slightly before the turn of the century while you're a bit younger.:rolleyes::D

Feral Bill
12-20-2008, 13:04
Fine thread title. How's snowpack?


Here in eastern Washington? We just go a two+ foot dump in the valleys. Nothing special in the mountains yet.

165 years old! I was only planning to live to 156. Must be one of my rare typos.:)

Jack Tarlin
12-20-2008, 13:07
Model T spent quite awhile serving his country as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, so I suspect he did his share of hiking long before he turned 67. :D

Ron Haven
12-20-2008, 14:01
I tried a thru in 2008 and got 700 miles. Is it too early to start a thread for us middle aged persons that are planning on hiking after retirement?Just think Zeke,in 2025 they may have chair lifts up and down the steeper grades and you can tell the newby's.Gee,I remember when you had to actually climb up and down those on foot.They have already starting to put wheel chair ramps up to the privy's in Georgia.:D

4eyedbuzzard
12-20-2008, 14:14
...165 years old! I was only planning to live to 156. Must be one of my rare typos.:)

Only 156? Why be such a pessimist?:D

Chenango
12-20-2008, 19:51
Anybody know how many 60+ folks complete a thru each year? It must be at least 20 or so. Of course, this is just a SWAG?

Feral Bill
12-20-2008, 20:05
Only 156? Why be such a pessimist?:D
Gotta use those veteran's burial benefits sometime. My wife won't go for taxidermy and a nice display case.

Lemni Skate
05-11-2009, 07:07
2022 is my absolute latest year, my retirement date is June 2021 and I've never wanted to SOBO. I will be 58 years old then and I would love to find a way to do it before that. If I thru hike before then I probably push retirement back to 2022 or 2023.

Ridge Rat
05-11-2009, 10:05
isnt the world supposed to end in 2012? Thats at least what the history channel keeps telling me even though I am not sure how the history channel is predicting the future. I am shooting for 2012 if there is any chance of me getting the money together. It would be nice to get done the trail... be a bum for the few months and watch the world end from atop Katahdin or springer.

fiddlehead
05-11-2009, 10:27
Let's see, predictions for 2025 anyone?

1/ Trail will be 2240 miles long (added switchbacks)
2/ Bridge across the Kennebec
3/ Hidden cameras in every shelter and road crossing (what do they call it? CCTV?)
4/ Internet access at every point along the trail with blinking lights on your PDA (or whatever they choose to call computers by then) for all your friend's locations live.
5/ Dehydrated beer will be the craze that year.
6/ Fees for all camping (per night) Probably a standard $27.00 a night or something like that.
7/ Sleeping bags will have thermostats to dial in your comfort level
8/ Baltimore Jack will be attempting the first wheelchair hike of the trail
9/ Lone Wolf will be his support crew complete with battery change at every road crossing
10/ Wolves will be what everyone is afraid of as the bears and moose will be mild in comparison.

CowHead
07-20-2009, 14:10
Wait I'm in this class also, can't wait to retirement, already told the wife I see ya in six months or so. Now the only planning thing to decide is SOBO or NOBO

ShoelessWanderer
07-20-2009, 14:27
2025 sounds about like when I will finish section hiking!

Me too!!

(Did you know your message has to be 10 characters on WB??:))

CowHead
08-28-2009, 13:52
Can't wait for this class reunion

Erin
08-29-2009, 00:47
Love this thread. I have already calculated I retire at 55 in 2016 December so hope to be in the class of 2017 at age 55. My hope. Dehydrated beer would be nice. Shelters are nasty but I will use one in bad weather. I am not peeing in a bottle unless I have to. My hair will be white by then so forget dreads and maybe by then I will learn how to really post a photograph on the computer. And I hope there are still things such as bounce boxes, hostels, trail angels and hikers who hiked way back when for good advice and fun stories to share.

kayak karl
01-07-2011, 05:18
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday

Lone Penguin
01-07-2011, 07:02
Count me in. 2025 is just right for me.

fiddlehead
01-07-2011, 07:12
Count me in. 2025 is just right for me.

I gotta ask.
You being from Cambridge.
Do you (or did you) know any of the members of Floyd?
I know Syd, Waters and Gilmore are all from that town.

Lone Penguin
01-07-2011, 08:13
No. Before my time. I'm not that old!

megamawax
02-08-2011, 14:18
I was thinking 2017 or 2018 for my first attempt...but by 2025 my son will be 17, finishing his junior year in high school...could probably do section hikes in the summer. If I encourage him to graduate a semester early, though, 2026 would be the perfect year for us to do a thru hike together. Let the brainwashing commence.

10-K
02-08-2011, 14:54
What's the weather like in Virginia in 2025?

strollingalong
02-08-2011, 15:01
I gotta ask.
You being from Cambridge.
Do you (or did you) know any of the members of Floyd?
I know Syd, Waters and Gilmore are all from that town.

did you just check cliche box number 1?

Old Hiker
02-08-2011, 15:13
That would be about 13 years after my NOBO (2012) - I may be rested up by then. Can I try for a second thru?

ChinMusic
02-08-2011, 15:17
What's the weather like in Virginia in 2025?
If Al Gore is right they'll be hitting Damascus around 3/1.

Roots
02-08-2011, 17:59
I tried a thru in 2008 and got 700 miles. Is it too early to start a thread for us middle aged persons that are planning on hiking after retirement?


I'm there!! ;):sun:)

Diatribe
02-08-2011, 21:49
I have a feeling that no one will be around in 2025 to hike the trail. there will just be cockroaches, twinkies, and whatever else can withstand nuclear winter.
Trying not to be a pessimist, just my honest opinion shared with millions of others...

johnnybgood
02-08-2011, 22:12
I have a feeling that no one will be around in 2025 to hike the trail. there will just be cockroaches, twinkies, and whatever else can withstand nuclear winter.
Trying not to be a pessimist, just my honest opinion shared with millions of others...
Yikes ! ... thought I was a pessimist. Man , I hope your wrong !

Mountain Mike
04-09-2011, 04:06
PPV big screen TV in each shelter. Bar & full menue served till dusk each night. After tat just light bite. Or you could just have your porter cook you up something. Steak or Chicken Parmisan, Oh choices it will get so hard to hike the trail! lol

LDog
04-09-2011, 07:21
Lessee, um 2025 minus, uh DAYUM I'll be 70! I hope my mind is still sharp enough to be there, but genetics might screw me on that one ... Then there's my already degenerating musculoskeletal system ... Oh, hell! I'm in ...

http://www.xsmedical.com/v/vspfiles/photos/TRIONIC-3-2.jpg (http://www.xsmedical.com/Trionic_Mountain_Walker_p/trionic-3.htm)
Trionic Mountain Walker

volleypc
07-06-2011, 16:25
I always said I would retire in 2025 at the age of 52. If things go as planned I may even be able to retire at age 50, either way the first year I retire I will be back on the A.T. My goal is to hike the A.T. the first year, PCT the second year, CDT the third, and then do some cross country cycling trips. I hiked the A.T. in 09 and I can not wait to get back out there.

yingxuy
01-10-2012, 23:09
In 2025, they may have steep grades along the cable, you can tell Newby's.

dscott7
08-23-2012, 22:14
Is now a good time to say my date is 2040? If I have kids in the next few years they will be in college by then. I'm going active in the military Oct 1 so I could be retired then. I would be 50ish years old.

The Wanna Bs
01-08-2013, 13:29
What's the weather like in Virginia in 2025?

Wondering the same thing. Honestly though, we plan to do the hike after I retire in 2018, starting Spring of 2019. Bob will be 71, I will be 66. We are already prepping. Did a two day 14 mile hike in below freezing weather last weekend to check ourselves out. We need better cold gear. I need to strengthen my legs to protect my knees. We need to figure out how to go lighter. We are going hammock camping because it is easier on our old backs and knees. Older hikers do need different advice.

Northern Lights
01-08-2013, 15:44
Back it up to 2024 and I am there. Going to start on March 2nd. Best retirement/birthday gift I could give myself. Until then I'll continue sectioning