so true! And good for you!
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so true! And good for you!
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You have met a Chewbacca, a Gandalf, and a girl with Sun somewhere in her name since the last time you met a John, David, or Mary.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
You know you're a LD hiker when FINALLY the perfect weather has arrived to test out your new hybrid cuben fiber Zpacks rain jacket... Hurricane Cristobal.
You know you're a LD hiker when you're truly looking forward to hitching a boat ride across one of the rivers on a Te Araroa hike or the Colorado River on a Hayduke Trail thru-hike. Minus a quick boat ride you are really an insane LD hiker when you strongly consider swimming across one of these rivers with your inflated mattress used for buoyancy taped wrapped around you like a weird looking canary yellow Michelin man vest when, at the last minute as you've waded out into the cold fast moving water up to your waist, a raft appears from around the bend willing to shuttle you across the river.
You know you are a LD hiker when you don't refer to Osprey as a bird, Gregory as a boy's name, Patagonia as only a far away land, Arc'teryx as an extinct flying dinosaur, Western Mountaineering as an activity, Gossamer Gear as a silky light wt cobweb, Solomon as some king from the Bible, Keen as a developed sense of wit, Snow Peak or Montbell as French or Colorado summits to bag, Ice Breaker as special ice cutting ship, or Black Diamond as a new perfume being sold at high end outlets.
You know you're a LD hiker when the wt and size of a regular sized BIC will just not do. You have to find a mini BIC.
You know you're a LD hiker when you have burned holes in pricey wool socks, down sleeping bags/quilts, rain/wind jackets, and maybe a shelter or two.
You have found an endless number of uses for duck tape that is regularly wrapped around a Vitamin Water bottle.
Safety pins are attached to your pack.
You have songs on your Mp3 player aimed specifically at powering you up 5K ascents, through days of torrential downpours, across deserts, through hunkered down white outs, and getting to Mexico/Canada/Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
There are so many places you've visited with BEAR in their descriptions... Big Bear Lake, Bear Mt, Little Bear Lake, Bear Creek, Bear Island, Bear River, Bear River Range, White Bear lake... BEER in general...etc.
The 5 second rule doesn't apply anymore, you eat it anyway!
You really know how many people CAN fit in a shelter
Over the course of your life you've worn out more shoes than tires.
You do trail maintenance out of guilt (ok and other reasons)
Your pack has a PERMANANT funk.
You are not only comfortable with the idea of hitchhiking you have cool stories.
When it begins raining you mutter, "bring it on."
AT (LASH) '04-'14
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when stuff like this has you going, "Huh?"
when you finish you hike and you alreaddy have some plans for the next one...
every step is the first step to a new adventure
The dehydrator stays on and you quit buying air freshener or plug in scent things bc peaches, bananas, and apples smell so good wafting through the house
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When deer don't run away from you.
When you open threads titled: You Know You're a Long Distance Hiker When... just to see what you are not doing right.
Not that you are going to change, you just want to look at what the COOL kids are doing this hike.
Old Hiker
AT Hike 2012 - 497 Miles of 2184
AT Thru Hiker - 29 FEB - 03 OCT 2016 2189.1 miles
Just because my teeth are showing, does NOT mean I'm smiling.
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Lol^
When you stop giving unsolicited gear advice...you just chuckle under your breath and keep walking.
AT (LASH) '04-'14
You know you're a LD hiker when stepping into a hot shower and nestling into a warm dry sleeping bag are as pleasurable as an orgasm.
You know you're a LD hiker when you've had raw animal unpretentious passionate mutually fulfilling sex with another LD hiker you've only recently met.
You know you're a LD hiker when a romantic date consists of a sweaty 15 mile day hike.
Too much information.
- when you stand in the smoke of a fire to cover the stench (hiker deoderant).
- when you announce that you are going to bed by saying that it is hiker midnight.
- when the alarm clock is someone else's air mattress deflating.
- when you know what T-Rex syndrome is (I include this here because no one flinched when I mentioned it in another thread).
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
I love this thread! Lol
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- when the only place you will not take your Dirty Girls is to bed. (I feel compelled to explain this one. They are gaiters)
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln