So MrX

[Mudcat]

Someone used the term "hiker zombie march."

Good description, to my way of thinking.

I don't have any strong feelings about stopping where they did rather than getting to Canada. Well, that's disingenuous - it is clearly preferable to go all the way. But I respect the decision to stop.

Whatever - my question is more, why start?

I'm projecting though. I am very creative person and my mind is a certain way. The idea of trudging 20 miles a day every day for 5 months - pretty close to my definition of jail.

 

[roguejuror]

i bet you it was because he misses taco bell

 

[reno cool]

They quit with 500 miles to go. The missus made a long blog post to explain their decision.

http://thegreatdillydally.com

oh boy, I don't know if I should read this one, I read the last one.
the blog(?) btw, I find eerily similar to what mrs.x would do, but with a goofier name

I like this thread though, good job all.

 

[Matty]

Articulate women are all eerily similar in their writing style.

 

[Mudcat]

An internal voice is telling me to object to those comments (although I sort of get where they're coming from.)

Yeah but no - consider yourself scolded or something.

 

[Mudcat]

I remember when I was a kid, every year there would be an OXFAM walk.

Kids would solicit unsuspecting dupes to sponsor them per mile.

And we would go walk in some large pre-arranged circuit. There were rest areas all along the way.

I believe those were usually about 20 miles, those OXFAM Walks.


I recall really not liking them. I have memories of blisters and shoe issues and general pain - although I don't think I ever completed one. I think those issues were able to surface from only fractions of walks.

I was just a kid of course. Probably not comparable. Probably no real point here.



Okay carry on.

 

[Tron]

Whatever - my question is more, why start?.

Agreed.

Who in their right mind would want to be spending a lot of time outside, breathing in all of that fresh air while seeing natural wonder after natural wonderful all at several different altitudes.


Bunch a crazy people!

 

[reno cool]

"We were stuck in a timequake and now we are free at last."

I think it has something to do with Vonnegut

 

[Tron]

They quit with 500 miles to go. The missus made a long blog post to explain their decision.

http://thegreatdillydally.com

I forgot to thank you for posting this. Very helpful and I really enjoyed the read and the photos.

I'm putting hiking a PORTION of the PCT on my bucket list.

 

[Matty]

5 miles of it

I'm GAME

 

[Mudcat]

yoink

 

[Mudcat]

"We were stuck in a timequake and now we are free at last."

I think it has something to do with Vonnegut

Vonnegut wrote a pseudo-novel called Timequake. It is one of my favorites of his (although, fair to say, not widely considered one of his best.)

The timequake concept itself is about being stuck in a repeating action, absence of free will, wretchedness, yada yada.

So I guess that was the actual experience - which is what I would have guessed - abundance of fresh air and delightful altitude changes notwithstanding.



i.e. - this is not the PCT experience:

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[Mudcat]

Apparently this new movie, A Walk in the Woods, is an old-guy, road-trip, buddy-movie, in which Robert Redford and Nick Nolte set out to hike The Appalachian Trail which is a 2118 mile deal in another part of the country.

I checked out a few reviews. They are pretty lukewarm. Mainly what I wanted to know was, does Nick Nolte play an irascible old coot?

Turns out yes.