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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.

JAK
02-26-2010, 20:50
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. :)

Quoddy
02-26-2010, 21:36
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

Dogwood
02-26-2010, 23:14
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