Ok. Might be throwing myself to the wolves but I want a trail name based on what you guys have to suggest. Do your worst.
"Truth is anything you can convince someone else to believe" - Me
Headbanger?Originally Posted by Kraken Skullz
Ok. Might be throwing myself to the wolves but I want a trail name based on what you guys have to suggest. Do your worst.
"Hiking is as close to God as you can get without going to Church." - BobbyJo Sargent aka milkman Sometimes it's nice to take a long walk in THE FOG.
Will not be the first, hiked with one this summer. At first I thought it was musical taste, instead it was that he had a tendency of jumping up to quick and banging his head on the shelters.
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Nope. I'm sure we can do better than that. I am currently going by Billy Goat but I have only had that name for 2 days now and I am in my living room, so it isn't exactly tried and tested.
"Truth is anything you can convince someone else to believe" - Me
Any name prefaced with "Just"
Fear ridges that are depicted as flat lines on a profile map.
Ahhh... I didn't check that out... stayin alive then. The only bears I know and like is RCbear & gizzybear.
As far as I know (and I have never performed a search) I am the only Merry the hobbit. But I am a hobbit. I refused to be just hobbit and insisted on a more distinct name
Original names are great. But I think the best names are those that capture the essence of the individual whether the names are original or not.
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Ah- the trail name--the nome de plume of the woods! In my "real" life, I am Ron(ald)...but I am not He in the woods or on the trail--it is my purpose to go into the woods and on the Trail to leave Ron(ald) and his life behind. Ron(ald) lives a forced existence, a man who must do as society demands, and his purse too, for that matter; he is pressed with a need to keep up with the Jonses. In reality, I am not Ron(ald)--I am In Fact, he who holds my trail name. In the woods and on the Trail, I can be Me.
When we meet on the trail, I do not want you to ask me how the wife & kids are, whether my car is running well--or how high my property tax is. I want you to greet me as an equal, a Trailwalker, a friend--not a societal competitor. Complement my hiking stick, and be on your way, or let's sit down for a cup of tea or coffee, before resuming the Trail...
You are hereby dubbed "Molly"Ok. Might be throwing myself to the wolves but I want a trail name based on what you guys have to suggest. Do your worst.
Cuz Molly Rigwald starred in The Breakfast Club which is the most famous reference to cracking skulls.
Now you know why people self name themselves.
Heh. Yep. Because people won't be thinking of Molly Ringwald when they hear "Molly." Best avoid that one as a trail name.
I had to google to figure out what you meant. Learn something every day.
And that is a fact. At least folks under 30.
Thanks! thank you for ruining the wonderful memories I had from the 80s of my many imaginary dates with Molly Ringwald. Now im afraid... damn you!
igne et ferrum est potentas
"In the beginning, all America was Virginia." -William Byrd
I work in a high school. I get to stay up on the lingo
I think that trail names also encourage one thing - by simplifying a hikers persona trail names also erase the real person there. A hiker then is no longer a "J. Smith" with all the dimensions a real identity implies and includes but is reborn as "mxplciv" and can behave as a new person. In most cases, 99.9%?, this is OK but it's worth remembering that the real person _can_ be someone other than _the_ trail name.
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I'm super excited about getting a name. Nooo idea what it'll be.
Molly Ringwald!!!!
igne et ferrum est potentas
"In the beginning, all America was Virginia." -William Byrd
Eww... She's old!Molly Ringwald!!!!
In the first week or so on the trail, people will be throwing suggestions all day if you don't have a trail name.
I think the best ones are given on the trail, but just don't accept the first one thrown at you.
It's not your name until you accept it is. But don't try and wait for a "cool" one.
Take one that fits your persona.
Sometimes many people will call you something else anyway. Last year there was a young couple and the girl was really nice. No one in our group could remember his name. So we referred to him as "Lucky Bastid". By the time we got to NE half the trail was calling him that.
uh anything to do with owls......
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
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