[at-l] MEGA-GAME

[rafeb at speakeasy.net (Rafe Bustin)]

At 11:24 AM 6/14/2005 -0700, Robert wrote:

>I have an interesting thought... interesting to me at least. I was looking 
>at Ryan's tagline on the last post of his that I read and thought, 
>"hmmmm... GAME... hmmmmm... MEGA... hmmmmm... what would prevent someone 
>from hiking a MEGA-GAME hike." I know what you're thinking. People have 
>already hiked both NOBO's and SOBO's in their lifetime. What I'd like to 
>know is if anyone thinks it would be possible to do a MEGA-GAME hike in 
>one season. The hiker would start with a MEGA hike and, instead of 
>stopping in Georgia, would turn around and hike back to complete a 
>MEGA-GAME hike. Obviously, it would be a little more involved than that, 
>but it seems doable to my seriously untrained hiking brain. As for those 
>who think that it should be a GAME-MEGA hike, I just don't think that 
>sounds as cool. Also, you wouldn't be able to end at Katahdin like so many 
>think you should. Thoughts?


It's been done, probably many times.  It's called yo-yo-ing,
for obvious reasons.

I believe Ward Leonard did it in 1990, which is why I met
him twice.


rafe b
aka terrapin


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