Re: [at-l] AT: The First Fifty Miles

[tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)]

     So cool to see someone challenging their comfort zone WHILE 
     challenging their comfort zone BY BACKPACKING. Kind of a 
     double-risk-taking. Hey, fifty miles, RT; not forever. Keep up the 
     exploration.


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Subject: [at-l] AT: The First Fifty Miles
Author:  JoelShiver@aol.com at ima
Date:    10/31/99 6:13 PM

And as soon as I finalize a gear list I'll post it; and, after it's been 
picked apart, I can re-finalize it.  But aside from clothes for cold weather, 
and the basic weight of tent and pack (and, maybe, Thermarest), I am going 
Spartan.
     
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If a man can pack a heavy load across a portage, if he can do whatever he has to
do without complaint and with good humor . . ., and if he can somehow keep alive
a spark of adventure and romance as the old time voyageurs seem to have done, 
then any expedition becomes more than a journey through wild country.  It 
becomes a shining challenge and an adventure of the spirit.  Sigurd F. Olsen,  
The Lonely Land

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