Membership survey
Please indicate your current status.
~If you cant do it with one bullet, dont do it at all.
~Well behaved women rarely make history.
My current status? Hmm. Single but for ever in love with my girlfriend that nudged me gracefully toward the trail.
And there's no category for someone who starts over from Katahdin every year but has yet to finish.
Actually I'm glad I don't fall into any of those categories. Thru hike will happen when it's meant to.
I'm thinking SOBO8.
This question came up about members, guests, members who never post, or dont think they have the experience to have serious input.
I was wondering how many of us have real "experience" hiking. I know many here have thrud (and some more than once, and more than one trail!)
But this is to get a better idea of who's out here!
~If you cant do it with one bullet, dont do it at all.
~Well behaved women rarely make history.
I guess "do-overs" should count for something! Sorry to have left you out!Originally Posted by warraghiyagey
My current status? Hmm. Single but for ever in love with my girlfriend that nudged me gracefully toward the trail.
And there's no category for someone who starts over from Katahdin every year but has yet to finish.
Actually I'm glad I don't fall into any of those categories. Thru hike will happen when it's meant to.
I'm thinking SOBO8.
~If you cant do it with one bullet, dont do it at all.
~Well behaved women rarely make history.
How about Section Hikers in present tense and Thru-hikers in future tense.
HAPPY TRAILS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD HIKE!
Well in your defense,I don't think there's alot of folks out there
that have followed the same ummmm, path. . . let's say.
But again, SOBO8 for sure.
years hiking?
How many years have you been hiking the AT?
For myself it 23 years hiking the AT, 18 years volunteering.
That is all good time well spent.
That would be options 3 and 4 respectively.How about Section Hikers in present tense and Thru-hikers in future tense.
so who picked the colors? i would be currently orange, longing to be navy blue.
Lazarus
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thrud in 05 going again in 08 as a sherpa for my wife.
He who dies with the most toys, still dies.
No question to fit me on the that survey. I camp a lot and hike some (as much as my knees allow) but I don’t think I will ever do the AT, but I go out in Ohio and Michigan’s UP a lot.
My current status?
If you are a mentally balanced, hot looking and rich woman I’m here for you.
I know the mentally balanced thing is a stretch for a woman, but one can always hope…
We call them LASH's and SLASH's (Long Ass Section Hikes and Super-Long Ass Section Hikes ...) since it's not technically a thru if you blue-blazed, yellow blazed, finished a section the following year etc. etc.
Section wobbling down the trail slowly.
And there goes any chance you might have had.
I was trying to work on an appropriate response, but yours suits it!And there goes any chance you might have had.
~If you cant do it with one bullet, dont do it at all.
~Well behaved women rarely make history.
Thank you.
Started a nobo thru in 1990 and quit the trail near a few days north of Pearisburg. Hiked from Katahdin to Monson later that year. In the late '90s, began doing section hikes. Short ones at first, typically 35 miles or so, but gradually getting longer. Generally working southward from New England. Finished the **%^#@ thing with a 40-day, 587 mile section this summer, ending at the same spot where I quit on June 2, 1990.
The Whites complicate the story... I started hiking the Whites in the mid 1970s or so, but without any thought to thru-hiking -- and barely conscious of the AT itself. As part of my thru-hike "training" in 1989, I hiked known "gaps" between Moosilauke and Gorham. But there are a few sections (eg. the Presidential range) that I haven't hiked since... oh, the late 1970s or early 1980s or so. So I'm not really sure I should call it a 17-year effort or a 30-year effort. But hey, it's done, and I'm content.
Oh, and truth be told, I never did hike Pond Mountain. I blame LW for that. He knows the story.
Only hiked a few short sections of the AT. Hiked several trail here in Indiana. Trying to talk the wife into letting me get to the AT more.
GA -> ME 2003
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