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Spokes
05-20-2010, 13:32
When the trail gets really tough what does that little voice inside your head say- things like "No hill lasts forever!" or "I'm almost there!"?

Do you start thinking of the lyrics of favorite song or just break out into a meditation mantra? I'd really like to know......

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Yahtzee
05-20-2010, 13:46
Depends. If I catch it soon enough, I simply slow down and start daydreaming about some other than hiking. If my intestinal fortitude has failed me, however, I typically curse my way to my next break point.

Gray Blazer
05-20-2010, 14:21
I'm trying to picture myself on the ATthis is a waste of time and remembering any subliminal messages i wonder what subliminal message the OP is trying to send that I may have sent myself did i say this was a waste of time. When I saw the title of the thread, I was imagining sending subliminal messages some people will start a thread about anything to other hikers most people can't even spell or say subliminal or even wildlife. I think I'm always trying gray blazer rules to send the bears a mental image of my toughness.

kayak karl
05-20-2010, 15:07
i think of my 3 ex-wives,
TOOK EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT THEY AIN"T TAKING THIS HILL.:D

Feral Bill
05-20-2010, 15:13
I sometimes sing aloud as I trek up hills. Not so much when there are others about.

Railroad King
05-20-2010, 15:24
The voice in my head constantly yells "THIS IS SPARTA!" or something along those lines.
For clueless people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeYVIWz99I

Spokes
05-20-2010, 16:01
i think of my 3 ex-wives,
TOOK EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT THEY AIN"T TAKING THIS HILL.:D

heheheheehhehe..............

Spokes
05-20-2010, 16:03
The voice in my head constantly yells "THIS IS SPARTA!" or something along those lines.
For clueless people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeYVIWz99I

WOW!!! I'll have to try that next time I'm up on Katahdin.

Think I'll look funny wearing a flowing red cape, leather wristlets, and carrying a sword?

cowboy nichols
05-20-2010, 16:10
I just think of my ex's and yell --Is this far enough away from the TV or Bar ? Of course now I've outlived them all LOL

Mrs Baggins
05-20-2010, 16:16
Let's see. First I consign the people, who put the trail up the steepest mountain they could find, to the burning fires of Hell for all eternity. Then I cry. Then I just start telling myself "you can do this, you can do this"......but I still wish the trail designers a slow and hideous death. :)

prain4u
05-20-2010, 16:20
When the trail gets really tough what does that little voice inside your head say- things like "No hill lasts forever!" or "I'm almost there!"?

Do you start thinking of the lyrics of favorite song or just break out into a meditation mantra? I'd really like to know......




I hear the voice of my wife (inside my head) saying: "I don't know why you would rather be out hiking up and down all of those hills when you could spend your vacation at the beach or relaxing at a nice comfortable hotel with a pool and hot tub".

For a moment, such thoughts can cause me to start feeling down. I start to think about how nice it WOULD be at the beach, hotel or pool--especially with a cool beverage in my hand.

However, I would NEVER want my wife to be "right" in such a debate. Thus, I become motivated to "dig down deep"--find a new reserve of energy--and conquer the hill or the tough section of the trail. ("I'll show her that I can have just as much fun walking up this endless hill as I can at a hotel room with a hot tub and a cold drink!") :D

Spokes
05-20-2010, 16:26
Let's see. First I consign the people, who put the trail up the steepest mountain they could find, to the burning fires of Hell for all eternity. Then I cry. Then I just start telling myself "you can do this, you can do this"......but I still wish the trail designers a slow and hideous death. :)

Yep, I've thought the exact same things! Thank goodness I wasn't carrying a Voodoo Doll last year because somebody would have been hurtin' besides me!

beakerman
05-20-2010, 17:00
I just put my head down and keep moving no matter how much it hurts. I can't say I "think" anything in particular. I'm odd that way though.

FritztheCat
05-20-2010, 17:44
I've caught myself grumbling on particularly steep uphills something like, "what the hell am I doing out here?" Then about that time, it never fails...I'll see something incredible like a great view or wildlife making their presence known. Then I have my answer. "That's why I'm out here!"

Chaco Taco
05-20-2010, 17:56
Uphill is awesome. That euphoric feeling you get when you lock into a rhythm is priceless. :sun

vonfrick
05-20-2010, 18:04
i think of my 3 ex-wives,
TOOK EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT THEY AIN"T TAKING THIS HILL.:D

hahahahaha...i think of my mom.


WOW!!! I'll have to try that next time I'm up on Katahdin.

Think I'll look funny wearing a flowing red cape, leather wristlets, and carrying a sword?

i'll give you 3 dollars if you also wear the gold speedo :sun

Rocket Jones
05-20-2010, 18:07
hahahahaha...i think of my mom.



i'll give you 3 dollars if you also wear the gold speedo :sun

I'll double it if you don't post pictures. :eek:

gungho
05-20-2010, 18:10
hahahahaha...i think of my mom.



i'll give you 3 dollars if you also wear the gold speedo :sun

warraghy would do it for free..................:eek:

FritztheCat
05-20-2010, 18:58
warraghy would do it for free..................:eek:

If he existed.

sbhikes
05-20-2010, 19:08
I like hiking up hill. The PCT trained me very well. Uphill means you are going somewhere. Downhill means you are leaving somewhere.

Scruffy
05-20-2010, 20:48
The only time the trail gets tough for me is when my knee starts acting up. At that point I start fussing at my knee outloud and threaten to cut it of and throw it down the hill. And sometime I just start hitting my knee like a red headed stepchild.

Spokes
05-20-2010, 21:31
I'll agree with everyone about liking the uphills only because the downhills hurt!

.......... and, by the way, all my speedo's are fushia.

Jonnycat
05-20-2010, 21:34
When the trail gets really tough what does that little voice inside your head say...?


The little voice tells me to pray. Then I pray.

Then everything is a lot easier.

K2
05-21-2010, 16:39
I haven't hike the AT yet, but when I'm hiking, I find these two songs hit my subconciousness and spill out my mouth.

Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Richard Rodgers

Climb every mountain, search high and low
Follow every by way, every path you know
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give
Everyday of your life, for as long as you live
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give
Everyday of your life, for as long as you live
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your... dream...


The Happy Wanderer (I don't really know the tune, so this is all I sing.)
by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller

My knapsack on my back.
Chorus:
Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.


Luckily, people enjoy my singing some of the time. K2

Old Hiker
05-21-2010, 16:59
I haven't hike the AT yet, but when I'm hiking, I find these two songs hit my subconciousness and spill out my mouth.

Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Richard Rodgers

Climb every mountain, search high and low
Follow every by way, every path you know
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give
Everyday of your life, for as long as you live
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give
Everyday of your life, for as long as you live
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your... dream...


The Happy Wanderer (I don't really know the tune, so this is all I sing.)
by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller

My knapsack on my back.
Chorus:
Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.


Luckily, people enjoy my singing some of the time. K2

Depends - if I hear these songs in front of me, I have to catch up to kill 'em. If I hear these songs behind me, I have to get over the hill to find a place to ambush 'em and kill 'em.

Seriously, if I heard the songs, I would HAVE to smile. If someone's having such a great time at such a bad place, how can I complain? I won't join in the singing, because they would catch up and kill me or.........wait a second.........

Have I mentioned that I can't carry a tune in a bucket?

How about "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"?

Jim Adams
05-21-2010, 18:16
Half way up the climb I think...why hasn't someone built a pizza shop with beer right here?

geek

J5man
05-21-2010, 18:32
I just cuss.

TIDE-HSV
05-21-2010, 18:33
I haven't hike the AT yet, but when I'm hiking, I find these two songs hit my subconciousness and spill out my mouth. *
Luckily, people enjoy my singing some of the time. K2

*
Der froehliche Wanderer

Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann
Und mir steckt's auch im Blut
D'rum wand're ich froh so lang ich kann
Und schwenke meinen Hut
Faleri falera faleri falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri falera
Und schwenke meinen Hut

Das Wandern schafft stets frische Lust
Erhalt das Herz gesund
Frei atmet draussen meine Brust
Froh singet stets mein Mund
Faleri falera faleri falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri falera
Froh singet stets mein Mund

Warum singt Dir das Voegelein
So freudevoll sein Lied
Weil's nimmer hockt Land aus Land ein
Durch and're Fluren zieht
Faleri falera faleri falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri falera
Durch and're Fluren zieht

Was murmelt's Bachlein dort und rauscht,
So lustig hin durch's Rohr,
Weil's frei sich regt, mit Wonne lauscht
Ihm dein empfanglich Ohr.
Faleri falera faleri falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri falera
Ihm dein empfanglich Ohr.

D'rum trag ich Ranzlein und den Stab
Weit in die Welt hinein
Und werde bis an's kuhle Grab
Ein Wanderbursche sein
Faleri falera faleri falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri falera
Ein Wanderbursche sein

boarstone
05-21-2010, 20:57
WOW!!! I'll have to try that next time I'm up on Katahdin.

Think I'll look funny wearing a flowing red cape, leather wristlets, and carrying a sword?


The local women will love it! :D Watch your back!

healthymom
05-21-2010, 21:07
Pagan chants and songs. Really loud and often off-key. But only when no one can hear.
Dee
healthymom

JAK
05-21-2010, 21:14
Nature is filled with subliminal messages, and other stuff. I was listening to the radio and this lady was talking about trees and the drugs you can be taking in just walking through a pine forest, for example. Nature has lots of bandwidth.

Skidsteer
05-21-2010, 22:01
I was listening to the radio and this lady was talking about trees and the drugs you can be taking in just walking through a pine forest, for example.

That explains a lot.

JAK
05-21-2010, 22:05
LOL. I wasn't that clear was I. I meant the drugs that are in the air, from the pine trees.

Skidsteer
05-21-2010, 22:09
LOL. I wasn't that clear was I. I meant the drugs that are in the air, from the pine trees.

;)

not enough letters.

JAK
05-21-2010, 22:42
On A Tree Fallen Across The Road (To hear us talk)

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
Throws down in front of us is not bar
Our passage to our journey's end for good,
But just to ask us who we think we are

Insisting always on our own way so.
She likes to halt us in our runner tracks,
And make us get down in a foot of snow
Debating what to do without an ax.

And yet she knows obstruction is in vain:
We will not be put off the final goal
We have it hidden in us to attain,
Not though we have to seize earth by the pole

And, tired of aimless circling in one place,
Steer straight off after something into space.

- Robert Frost

K2
05-22-2010, 01:25
Have I mentioned that I can't carry a tune in a bucket?

How about "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"?

Come on, lose the inhibition and sing--you only live once, and life is short. Of course, in your case, it sounds like singing is risky. Don't forget that old saying; it aint over 'til K2 sings! BTW, you face almost certain death if I hear you sing "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt", but this fate is most likely if you sing (Barney) "I love you, you love me, we're a happy family....."


Der froehliche Wanderer

Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann
Und mir steckt's auch im Blut
D'rum wand're ich froh so lang ich kann
Und schwenke meinen Hut
Faleri falera faleri falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri falera
Und schwenke meinen Hut


Show off;).


And as for Jak, I'm speechless :D. K2

TIDE-HSV
05-22-2010, 01:31
Come on, lose the inhibition and sing--you only live once, and life is short. Of course, in your case, it sounds like singing is risky. Don't forget that old saying; it aint over 'til K2 sings! BTW, you face almost certain death if I hear you sing "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt", but this fate is most likely if you sing (Barney) "I love you, you love me, we're a happy family....."






And as for Jak, I'm speechless :D. K2

Show off;).

Ja, Du hast's recht...

K2
05-22-2010, 02:56
Gut, ich habe nicht sprechen Deutsch. Es ist gut gibt es auf line Übersetzungen!


K2

Spokes
05-22-2010, 08:32
Pagan chants and songs. Really loud and often off-key. But only when no one can hear.
Dee
healthymom

Reminds me of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome for some reason.........."Bust a deal and face the wheel!"

Tractor
05-22-2010, 09:08
One mantra, one day going up one mountain:

I . . . . . . . . . . am . . . . . . . a . . . . . . . tractor.

Otherwise, yes, I get songs in my head and sometimes do sing out loud. Sometimes, though, the songs are so random (theme songs from old TV shows for instance) but sometimes they pop in with just the right beat matching my step and are songs I actually like.

Now that I think about I have chanted other things from time to time. Elmer Fudd's "Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit" for instance. I have also acted out some examples of John Cleese's "Silly walks". I think I was in PA at the time. Might have had something to do with little pointy rocks.

It's all good and quite normal for me.

TIDE-HSV
05-22-2010, 09:42
Gut, ich habe nicht sprechen Deutsch. Es ist gut gibt es auf line Übersetzungen!


K2

Are you saying you don't speak German and you want each line translated? :)

double d
05-22-2010, 09:50
I think of the movie Deliverance and that somehow gets me going up that last mt. of the day! That or I start to sing to myself "Born To Run" by the one and only Bruce.

K2
05-22-2010, 22:08
Originally Posted by K2
Gut, ich habe nicht sprechen Deutsch. Es ist gut gibt es auf line Übersetzungen!
Are you saying you don't speak German and you want each line translated? :)

I don't speak German. It is good there is online translation! :D K2

TIDE-HSV
05-22-2010, 22:17
I don't speak German. It is good there is online translation! :D K2

Point me to where you found the translation. Several of those words are far from being everyday conversation words and a couple of the verses are very idiomatic. The Germans have many old folk songs about wandering (Wandernlieder). I have one complete LP titled "Wir Wandern in die Welt." (We Wander in the World.) I certainly have run into them in some very odd places. BTW, "online" has been absorbed into everyday German...

K2
05-23-2010, 17:17
I don't remember. I did a search for "translation German-to-English", typed in two sentences, and clicked "translate".

I knew it would be lost in translation ;):rolleyes::sun:):D:D:D:D:D. K2

TIDE-HSV
05-23-2010, 17:50
I don't remember. I did a search for "translation German-to-English", typed in two sentences, and clicked "translate".

I knew it would be lost in translation ;):rolleyes::sun:):D:D:D:D:D. K2

C&P it and PM it to me, if you don't mind. A couple of those verses just can't be translated properly by an online translator, IMO. I'd like to see how it did it. The verse about the bird flying over field after field, stacking them up like rows of hay should just about be impossible for a non-human translator...

Connie
05-23-2010, 18:04
Gray Blazer rules! Yeah!

It works!

OT: I am fully present. I am a mindful person, I guess. Must be all those years, starting with Korean Zen poetry, Zen Koans, Haiku, and moving onto tutelage by a Vedantin swami. Forgot the Episcopal convent.

Q. What is better than the present moment?
A. I want it!

Hee hee hee

OP: I am in the present moment.

Connie
05-23-2010, 18:54
Google translates:

German to English translationhttp://www.google.com/images/cleardot.gif

The happy wanderer

My father was a traveling man
And I feel puts in blood
D'rum I wander round glad I can
And waving my hat
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
And waving my hat

Walking always creates fresh pleasure
Receiving the heart healthy
Checking out my chest is breathing
Glad always sing my mouth
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
Glad always sing my mouth

Why do you sing the birds
Sun joyfully his songs
Because it's never sitting out a country country
runs through corridors and're
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
runs through corridors and're

What's there brook murmurs and roars,
As merry way through's tube,
Because it's free to stimulate, listens with delight
Him your receptive ear.
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
Him your receptive ear.

D'rum Ranzlein I wear and the staff
Far into the world
And I will unto the grave pit
A journeyman be
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
A fellow walking his


http://www.google.com/images/cleardot.gif

Contribute a better translation:

We always sang it: ...his knapsack on his back.

OP: Now I am going to have that "jingle" stuck in my head!



Thank you for contributing your translation suggestion to Google Translate.

Oops!

WILLIAM HAYES
05-23-2010, 19:41
I turn up the volume on my MP3 player- or sometimes like in redford movie- I say to myself "By god I be a mountain man"
hillbilly

TIDE-HSV
05-23-2010, 19:59
Google translates:

German to English translationhttp://www.google.com/images/cleardot.gif

The happy wanderer

My father was a traveling man
And I feel puts in blood
D'rum I wander round glad I can
And waving my hat
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
And waving my hat

Walking always creates fresh pleasure
Receiving the heart healthy
Checking out my chest is breathing
Glad always sing my mouth
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
Glad always sing my mouth

Why do you sing the birds
Sun joyfully his songs
Because it's never sitting out a country country
runs through corridors and're
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
runs through corridors and're

What's there brook murmurs and roars,
As merry way through's tube,
Because it's free to stimulate, listens with delight
Him your receptive ear.
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
Him your receptive ear.

D'rum Ranzlein I wear and the staff
Far into the world
And I will unto the grave pit
A journeyman be
Faleri Falera Faleri Falera ha ha ha ha ha ha
Faleri Falera
A fellow walking his


http://www.google.com/images/cleardot.gif

Contribute a better translation:

We always sang it: ...his knapsack on his back.

OP: Now I am going to have that "jingle" stuck in my head!



Thank you for contributing your translation suggestion to Google Translate.

Oops!

LOL! Hilarious! Verse is notoriously hard to translate, anyway, and a lot of this song is, I guess "quaint" is the best word. I'll try to translate the sense of it, without trying to work it into singable form...

1st verse - "My father was a wandering man and it's also in my blood. Therefore I wander happily so long as I can, and tip my hat to all ("all" understood)."

2nd verse - "The wandering always creates fresh desire and keeps the heart healthy. My breast breathes freely outside and I keep singing along."

3rd verse - "Why does the little bird sing its song so joyfully as it piles country on country and flies over field after field." (This is a loose translation - can't be directly translated.)

4th verse - "Ah - the little brook rushes so happily through the reeds, while we listen with delight with a sympathetic ear." (Here, he's used an "Austrianism," which most Germans would disapprove of.)

5th verse - "Therefore I don my little pack and staff, off into the wide, wide world, and I'll be a wandering lad until the cold, cold grave."

K2
05-24-2010, 02:14
Ah, the fresh air, the sunshine, the birds and trees; being in the moment.....

Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.

"Our top story tonight: Backpacking singer killed on AT trail. Fellow hikers claim it was a bear attack, but our Eye-team investigation points to foul play."

How tragic. K2

Anumber1
05-24-2010, 02:56
[QUOTE=Spokes;1014986]When the trail gets really tough what does that little voice inside your head say- things like "No hill lasts forever!" or "I'm almost there!"?

Do you start thinking of the lyrics of favorite song or just break out into a meditation mantra? I'd really like to know......

qUOTE]

BBQ Trail Magic Ahead!

Marta
05-24-2010, 06:54
Babelfish.com is a popular translation site. Here's the babelfish translation of the first paragraph of Anna Karenina. It starts off well, then goes downhill from there:

All happy families are similar to each other, each unfortunate family is unfortunate in its own way. Everything was mixed in the house Of [oblonskikh]. Wife learned, that the husband was in connection with the governess former in their house, and it declared to husband, that it cannot live with it in one house. This position continued already the third day and was agonizingly felt by husbands themselves, and by all family members, and by households. All family members and households felt, that there is no sense in their cohabitation and that on each inn the randomly joining themselves people are more connected together, than they, family members and the households Of [oblonskikh]. Wife did not leave from her rooms, husband the third day there was no house. Children ran throughout entire house as lost; Englishwoman quarrelled with the housekeeper and wrote note to friend, requesting to [priiskat] by her new place; cook left still yesterday from the court, during the dinner; black cook and coachman requested calculation.

Old Hiker
05-24-2010, 08:02
..........................

Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.

"Our top story tonight: Backpacking singer killed on AT trail. Fellow hikers claim it was a bear attack, but our Eye-team investigation points to foul play."

How tragic. K2




I didn't do it, no one saw me do it, I have an alibi anyways! That's my story and I'm sticky. I have a cheap lawyer and I'm not afraid to use him! REF: posts 25 and 36.

K2
05-24-2010, 12:33
You're sticky? Well, don't become unglued, or they'll catch you for sure! K2

flemdawg1
05-24-2010, 13:20
I must hike too much with my kids. 2 songs I was singing going uphill last weekend was the "Up, Up, UP!" from Yo-gabba-gabba and "Come on Vaminos" from Dora the Explorer.

Mags
05-24-2010, 14:19
The Germans have many old folk songs about wandering (Wandernlieder)


Usually about 'wandering' into Belgium or Poland I imagine? :D

(My better half is from what was called Prussia...I'm allowed to say that..probably not to her, though. ;) )


Babelfish.com is a popular translation site. H


Google Translator is better IMO. It allows end user corrections to make it better and more accurate. It also translates on the fly which is pretty cool:
http://translate.google.com/#

Of course, these sites works best if you have some basic fluency in the language and need it more to put the frame work in that you can correct yourself.
(I still write some distant cousins in Italy. My written Italian is OK...can't speak it too well though. :( )

Dogwood
05-24-2010, 14:46
Rairoad King, that was a great answer, "THIS IS SPARTA!"

I hear a whole chorus of voices in my head, that start off as being one voice low in volume and ascending into a loud uniform chorus. The chorus is chanting my name saying, "RUDY, RUDY, RUDY" as I run out onto that Notre Dame football field!

The more of these(thoughts) that you have the more you can not only change yourself and your world, but possibly the whole world/universe. I've come to know that thoughts/words/self talk/envisioning in your mind influences the physical world in ways that we are only beginning to understand(again?).

TIDE-HSV
05-24-2010, 15:16
Usually about 'wandering' into Belgium or Poland I imagine? :D

(My better half is from what was called Prussia...I'm allowed to say that..probably not to her, though. ;) )

It's interesting that they see themselves as pushed around and put upon. The national figure, sort of like John Bull for Brits and Uncle Sam for us, is "Der Deutsche Michel," (The German Michael) a meek mild sort. Here's the Wiki reference on it:CLICK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Michel)

Marta
05-24-2010, 16:23
Ah, the fresh air, the sunshine, the birds and trees; being in the moment.....

Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.

"Our top story tonight: Backpacking singer killed on AT trail. Fellow hikers claim it was a bear attack, but our Eye-team investigation points to foul play."

How tragic. K2






One of my favorite recurring skits on the BBC comedy The Fast Show:

You see a line of hiker, striding along, singing Happy Wanderer.

Later in the show, you see the leader still striding strongly, singing. The rest of the hikers have fallen further back.

Later in the show, you see the leader still striding along, singing all by himself. The rest of the hikers are dragging pretty far back, barely picking up their feet.

At the end of the show, during the credits, you see the pack of hikers standing around something on the groung, beating it with their hiking staffs.

K2
05-25-2010, 04:27
One of my favorite recurring skits on the BBC comedy The Fast Show:

You see a line of hiker, striding along, singing Happy Wanderer.
.... At the end of the show, during the credits, you see the pack of hikers standing around something on the groung, beating it with their hiking staffs.

I've never seen that; what an interesting parallel.

We now return to our regularly scheduled broadcast.

.... Ommm, Ommm, Ommm....

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