i only hiked with one of those $1 plastic rain ponchos and loved it. can't get any lighter than that! doesn't breathe at all so you sweat a lot, but it otherwise does the trick. and amazingly i just...
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i only hiked with one of those $1 plastic rain ponchos and loved it. can't get any lighter than that! doesn't breathe at all so you sweat a lot, but it otherwise does the trick. and amazingly i just...
i didn't wear rain paints on the Trail, either. i generate enough heat hiking that as long as my upper body was relatively dry, i was fine. i still carried lightweight nylon pants along just to have...
a little late to this thread, but i had teh same apprehensions when i finished the Trail and started applying for jobs. i have my thru-hike at the bottom of my resume under General Accomplishments,...
first time i've been on this site in a very long while. maybe i got a little nostalgic.
i did GAME05 after a failed attempt in 04. moved to North Carolina and eventually quit my job to get my...
i always hiked with my shirt off, but I needed a long-sleeve shirt tied to my pack to prevent the back pad from chafing. Every single night I would ring that thing out like I'd just dipped it in a...
planning any daily schedule is a daunting task and unnecessary unless you have plans to meet up with someone. and no need to plan out where you'll sleep each night unless you're hiking with a group....
not usually much you can do. i'd walk around every mud hole and collected water puddle for a whole morning and eventually there was always one i couldn't avoid going right through. most always i'd...
man, i cursed every single hill and wanted to quit the Trail every day until even Maine. it was definitely having it set in my head that i was going to thru-hike 100% before i ever started that kept...
make sure you pick the right friends. it's not to say that there are a lot of bad people on the Trail (just the opposite), but from what i've observed from a lot of the younger crowd of people, it...
the joy of completion is dependent on the harshness of the journey.
what's sad is i more realize how great of a journey i was on now that i've finished then when i was actually hiking.
1. be joyful for each painful, miserable step along the way, as your pain will be rewarded upon completion.
2. hike as if you'll never see that section of trail again in your life.
3. go light
4....
a good way to pack is to have your heaviest stuff at the top so the pack sits over your hips and doesn't pull you back as much. also what you use least goes at the bottom. so sleeping bag, tent,...
i know you're saying it in jest, but maybe not being able to immediately spot the odd or not-so-odd or whatever group a person belongs to is a cultural evolution for the better. it's nice that we...
i hiked without breathable raingear and it wasn't much of a problem at all. what i actually found on colder days was that the nonbreathable material trapped every degree of heat inside that the...
[QUOTE=Newb;322178] I don't go to Church on Sunday, but that's because God doesn't work on a fee for service basis. [QUOTE]
what about the collection plate? ha!
yeah, I fit in the far...
Jim, you really hit it. what was so great about my second attempt was getting to all shelters I'd been to the year before, and i was so surprised that I could really see all the people who where...
awesome. you guys have really added to my "need to read" list, which now is almost longer then the last book I read. If I can throw in some of my favourites that I've actually reread:
my favourite...
Dear All,
You all have been nothing but helpful with the suggestions you have made to get my Ozone pack to fit right. However at this point I feel it is necessary to admit that I am a complete and...
I didn't do any maildrops and got by just fine (as have others), so if you don't really feel like doing them then don't sweat it. But definitely check Jack's resupply article and it's possible you...
actually my Ozone is a medium and I generally prefer a large, so it could be that I just needed a larger size and not a smaller one. but my soulder straps were as tight as possible and still i had a...
but thing is, I had the shoulder straps pulled as tight as they would go and the pack still wouldn't get near my shoulders. i was fighting agains the pack every step i took.
but i guess i...
maybe you just don't recognize hiker-chicks as well because of their hairy legs. I know plenty of 'em. they're out there...somewhere.
I must have carried too much weight in mine. I had about 38 pounds in it and it just didn't sit right. The shoulders never sit well and the think always felt like it was pulling me backwards. i can't...
my first attempt i think the whole undertaking was just so overwhelming that I didn't really know what to feel, and so didn't really feel anything. 2,000 hiking miles was too hard for me to put in my...