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    Default One night's bunkmates???

    If you could stay in a shelter with 4 other people for just one night, who would those folk be?

    Maybe they are:

    people you have previously hiked with
    friends
    family
    gurus of hiking that you could learn something from
    legends of the trail (for whatever reason- good or bad)
    folks of differing ideas that you'd want to see interact(clash possibly)
    etc.

    Who would you choose and why?

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    Jack Tarlin

    Dan Bruce

    Warren Doyle

    L. Wolf to stir the pot when things got to mellow

    I do not personally know these people, just what they share with us all

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    Default Things that make you say Hmmmmmm!

    I don't think either Jack or Warren sleep in shelters. If they ever did, I might stick around for the fireworks, but I would sleep in my tent.

    Rainman

    Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
    It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

    - Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass; Song of the Open Road.

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    Default My picks

    Daniel Boone, David Crockett, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark. Those guys could teach us a few things about walking a trail. How did they get their resupply?

    Rainman

    Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
    It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

    - Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass; Song of the Open Road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rainman
    Daniel Boone, David Crockett, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark. Those guys could teach us a few things about walking a trail. How did they get their resupply?
    the good old fashioned way - trade with locals, shoot it and eat it, or scrounge from the environment. Great choices btw. My wife is a niece, 3-4 generations removed, of Davy Crockett.

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    I plan on resupplying my AT hike by trading with the natives.

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    Myron Avery, Ed Garvey, Earl Shaffer, and a novice backpacker on the first night of his/her thru-hike. I hope Earl brings his old guitar...
    Teej

    "[ATers] represent three percent of our use and about twenty percent of our effort," retired Baxter Park Director Jensen Bissell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScottP
    I plan on resupplying my AT hike by trading with the natives.

    That might be the funniest thing I have ever heard. I don't know why but it just is!

    I think Rainman has a good one btw. But I would have to include Simon Kenton as well...

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    My Dad, Simon Kenton, Ben Franklin and Ed Garvey. I would just sit there quietly and listen to their conversations.
    "Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L’Amour

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    Horace Kephart

    Edward Abbey

    John Steinbeck

    Jesus Christ
    "I'd rather kill a man than a snake. Not because I love snakes or hate men. It is a question, rather, of proportion." Edward Abbey

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    A lot of hikers actually look like Jesus Christ!

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    Quote Originally Posted by lobster
    A lot of hikers actually look like Jesus Christ!

    not really

    very few middle eastern looking folks walking on the AT...

    most folks walking the AT are european looking, the historical jesus would not be euro looking...


    he would look more like Saddam Hussein
    "I'd rather kill a man than a snake. Not because I love snakes or hate men. It is a question, rather, of proportion." Edward Abbey

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    Quote Originally Posted by smokymtnsteve
    not really

    very few middle eastern looking folks walking on the AT...

    most folks walking the AT are european looking, the historical jesus would not be euro looking...


    he would look more like Saddam Hussein
    It is important to take everything very seriously......justtttt a bit outside

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    Lightbulb

    All I know is that I would want to share a shelter with new school Jesus AND 'historical' Jesus.

    Point being, I'm pretty sure that Lobster was making a reference to the long hair and long beards of many (not all) thru hikers.

    I'm definitely sure he wasn't trying to bring up a serious and unnecessary discussion/debate over the ethnicity or skin color of one Jesus H Christ.

    Oh and nice job tying in Saddam Hussein for a little sensationalism, lets get fired up people! Breaking news here! Jesus Christ may have been from the middle east. I'm stunned.

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    I would choose:
    Grandma Gatewood
    Earl Shaffer
    Colin Fletcher
    Benton MacKaye

    It would be a miserable next day's hiking, because of staying up all night listening, but also well worth it!

    Jane in CT

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    It would be,

    Farley Mowatt

    John Steinbeck

    Dali Lama

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    "We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us."

    Kahlil Gibran

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    Quote Originally Posted by smokymtnsteve
    not really

    very few middle eastern looking folks walking on the AT...

    most folks walking the AT are european looking, the historical jesus would not be euro looking...


    he would look more like Saddam Hussein
    Let's see, on this side thread...

    If Jesus is in the shelter...
    ...the nastiest treated water would turn to the finest wine.
    ...that dehydrated meal everyone is sharing would never run out.
    ...your feet would stay dry when fording a stream.
    ...wisdom would be shared.

    and to borrow from the "heaviest weight carried" thread He's carried more than the rest of us combined.

    (and maybe L. Wolf and GW could be friends....might be a stretch)
    nous défions

    It's gonna be ok.

    Ditch Medicine: wash your hands and keep your booger-pickers off your face!

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    Well if it is only one night how about:
    God
    Mohammad
    Karl Marx
    Buddha

    Or if in a more activist than philosophical mood:
    God
    Bush
    Bin Laden

    I think I'd tent that night though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lobster
    A lot of hikers actually look like Jesus Christ!
    Hmmm. How would one know? The last eye witness died a couple of millennia ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RITBlake
    All I know is that I would want to share a shelter with new school Jesus AND 'historical' Jesus.

    Point being, I'm pretty sure that Lobster was making a reference to the long hair and long beards of many (not all) thru hikers.

    I'm definitely sure he wasn't trying to bring up a serious and unnecessary discussion/debate over the ethnicity or skin color of one Jesus H Christ.

    Oh and nice job tying in Saddam Hussein for a little sensationalism, lets get fired up people! Breaking news here! Jesus Christ may have been from the middle east. I'm stunned.

    the ethnicity and skin color of the historical Jaysus is certain....

    the boy was a middle eastern jew...no doubt about that
    "I'd rather kill a man than a snake. Not because I love snakes or hate men. It is a question, rather, of proportion." Edward Abbey

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