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?
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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?
What about us younguns who are going to have a midlife crisis, can we throw our hats in as well?
I'm 50 myself and have 2013 as a target. Don't scare me with this 2025 stuff.......lol
All are welcome. The trail is there for everyone!
2025 sounds about like when I will finish section hiking!
I keep thinking:
"In the year 2525
If man is still alive"
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.
I'll be ready to go, I'll only be 39:bse.
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..
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.
2025? Yikes. I would 70! And I thought waiting to 2013 is an eternity.
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?
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
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