[at-l] Young versus old (was SOBO vs NOBO)

[RET33@prodigy.net (Robert Tomlinson)]

More illustrations of the same point:

1) I remember a father/son/dog team that started the AT last year (the
journal was on Trailplace) and of the three, only the father finished. The
dog outlasted the son, as well.
2) The famous tale of the tortoise and the hare.
3) And finally, a proverbial quotation from a very famous book that I am
always using with my big strong teenage sons, "The glory of the young is
their strength but the glory of the old is their wisdom."

RET in Sunny Fla

----- Original Message -----
From: James Bullard <bullard@northnet.org>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] SOBO vs NOBO


> At 08:33 AM 5/16/01 -0400, Snodrog5@aol.com wrote:
> >. . . clip . . .
> >  As far as telling who'll finish and who won't, you can never tell. I
> >shuttled the lady with two cats (I didn't know about the cats beforehand,
> >honest) from Boston to Baxter, chatting with her for 6 hours, going over
her
> >gear and food. I made up my mind there was no way she'd make it past
Monson.
> >She did, finishing the entire trail! Last year, two outdoorsy male UNH
jocks
> >I shuttled up bailed out at White House Landing. You just never can tell!
:O)
>
> There's a long tale that goes with this observation that I'll skip so's
not
> to bore everyone.  Observation: Young folks (teens and twenty somethings)
> have strength and speed but stamina is a quality that you develop with
> age.  I'll have to check but it seems to me that I read somewhere that a
> higher than average percentage of older hikers finishes a thru.  More
> realistic expectations?  Greater stamina?  More stubborn? ;)
>
> Saunterer
>
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