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Bags4266
02-26-2010, 18:58
If you have completed the AT up to the Long trail split, would it be cheating to start from the split near the LT Brewery, and consider that a completed thru hike for the LT? Or would you have to start from the beginning?:-?
JustaTouron
02-26-2010, 19:05
It wouldn't be a thru hike. But it would be accurate to say you section hiked the Long Trail.
But if you have been spending all the time at the LT brewery that would still qualify as a thru-hike. ;)
Bags4266
02-26-2010, 20:52
But if you have been spending all the time at the LT brewery that would still qualify as a thru-hike. ;)
Hummm, I like that way of thinking!:)
lazy river road
02-26-2010, 20:53
IMO you thrued the LT but in two sections. Does it really matter though just hike. HYOH and have fun. :)
The GMC considers completion of the trail, regardless of how many sections it is done in, an End-to-End hike. It is entirely up to the individual as to how they want to do it. I, personally, restarted at the beginning and did it as a thru... but many, many hikers have done it exactly as you have mentioned. I, and most others, consider them just as much an End-to-Ender as I am.
SGT Rock
02-26-2010, 21:57
Just hike. It is only hiking.
Bags4266
02-26-2010, 21:58
LOL, I know it was posted for light conversation...
SGT Rock
02-26-2010, 22:01
Cool. Some people really sweat this sort of thing.
fiddlehead
02-26-2010, 23:04
"Walkins Walkin" RainmanVT
If you hiked the whole LT you are an End to Ender. You hiked the whole trail! I've done it both ways 1/2 sections once and all the way thru. Get over the junky mindset. Either you hiked the whole trail or you didn't!
ridgerunninrat81
02-26-2010, 23:22
Its your hike what difference does it make what others think. ENJOY ENJOY