[at-l] (Guest Post) 2002 hiking

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

Where is this question coming from?  I don't mean "from the West Coast", I
mean philosophically.  We don't seem to be having the answers that are being
sought, so what's driving the question?  My family is planning to hike in
Spain next summer.  We're stepping forth in faith (pun intended, since we're
going to do the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail) until something really
happens that says, "This is not a good idea."  I had intended to go to
Nepal, but that seems a little close to the conflict to suit me.  Other than
that, what's the problem?  Are you of some ethnic background that would make
people notice you or something?  Like from some middle-Eastern background?
anklebear

----- Original Message -----
From: Henry, Verlinda <vhenry@mwmc.org>
To: <KarenS62@aol.com>; <patv@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>; <sloetoe@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: [at-l] (Guest Post) 2002 hiking


> thanks everyone for your feedback. I know it is still 6 months, but any
idea
> how the communities along the trail will feel towards hikers if we are in
a
> big war by March? any ideas how I can check this out? thanks. vj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KarenS62@aol.com [mailto:KarenS62@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 10:22 AM
> To: patv@falcon.cc.ukans.edu; sloetoe@yahoo.com
> Cc: Henry, Verlinda; at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [at-l] (Guest Post) 2002 hiking
>
>
> <<--- vj henry <vhenry@mwmc.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I live on the west coast and plan (?) to start the AT in March 2002,
but
> have questions now as to what others think about a through hike in
relation
> to/because of war.
>
> Then Miz Chocolate wrote,
>
> <<I don't mean for this to sound like a flip answer. I have no idea what
is
> going to happen in the next six months, and I don't have plans to
thru-hike
> next year. That said, the trail sounds like a pretty safe and appealing
> place to be under the circumstances...>>
>
> While I have no set plans to hike next year (besides a two week stroll
> through the wilds of Scotland in May), this made me think of something I
> said on September 12.  In an email to a hiking friend of mine, I told her
> that the freedom to hike and pursue dreams is what we are fighting for. I
> stand by what I said then and encourage each and everyone to live life to
> the fullest. As far as safety, its like I tell my family. I fly into
strange
> cities and drive around looking for my hotel after dark more often than I
> care to think of. I am a lot better off in the woods where I know what the
> dangers are and can actively avoid them.
>
> That said, I am volunteering at my forest this weekend and going hiking
next
> weekend. Everyone does their part in their own special way.
>
> POG
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