[at-l] Hiking Advice (2)

[sugardaddy@walking-wounded.com (SugarDaddy)]

I made myself promise myself ahead of time that I wouldnt quit in
Georgia. I got the the state line, sat in that cool tree there for an
hour or two, considered how far I'd have to walk to quit then and there,
and decided just to keep going. it worked for me - if someone else wants
to do it, please steal the idea =-)

later, the walking wounded all came to different understandings of what
it would take to quit....I think if I remember right I had to have 7
days in a row where I didnt have any fun at all. I ended up trying to
quit in vermont (I walked how far to quit? sheesh), but the wounded
caught me, and bullied me into going on...and i love them for it. =-)

--sugardaddy

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 07:59, Mark Hudson wrote:
> <<Earlier this year we had Gizmo talk to our group. We spent 71 days at
> Sprin=
> ger at the start of the AT hiking season. The first words out of his mouth
> =
> were "You would not believe the number of people who quit the trail without
> =
>  even seening the first white blaze".>>
>
> One of our discussions on the trail was that almost everyone that was out
> there had been dreaming about it for a long time, but what was with the
> ones that quit at Neel's Gap? We decided that was the differnce between a
> dream and a fantasy.
>
> Jim and others continually mention that it's not what's in your pack but
> what's in your head. Half the crowd gets to Neel's Gap and says "I'm wet,
> cold, sore, tired, hungry, and I have blisters, this is no fun, I quit, I'm
> going home". The other half says "I'm wet, cold, sore, tired, hungry, and I
> have blisters, I'm having a BLAST, and there's NO WAY I'm going to quit
> here."
>
> skeeter
>
>
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