Re: [at-l] Trailnames

[Pat Villeneuve <patv@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>]

The earlier post was correct about the Roland Muesser book. It has a good
five pages or so on trail names.

Give Me Chocolate

kahley7 wrote:

> The way it was explained to me.....
> In the early days, there was no need for thruhikers to have trailnames
> because there were
> so few of them.  As the informal trail community developed, it became the
> practice to sign
> just your first name in the register.  One year there were three Steves
> hiking and confusion
> ensued.
> Have you seen Steve?
> Which one.....Steve from Texas?
> No the big Steve....
> and viola...trailnames...
>
> Anyone or remember Enoyna and Enoon....or was the Enoyreve:????
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