[pct-l] O.d.Coyote??? Not quite...

[Slyatpct at aol.com]

Well, when I started planning the AT, I did hear about the PCT, the CDT and  
the Triple Crown and decided I was going to hike them all and did.  I may  
again too, and be a double triple dipper, but for right now I'm  looking forward 
to hiking other shorter trails.  For instance,  next year I have hopes of 
hiking the Benton MacKaye Trail, the Grand  Enchantment Trail, the Colorado Trail 
and the John Muir Trail.  I may  also stay straight (heh, heh)  in the Black 
Mountain Range and hike to  Canada
 
I have no idea what kind of conclusions one may draw from my previous  hikes 
or my new plans, other than that guy must really like hiking, and I  don't 
really care either.
 
Sly 
 
 
In a message dated 12/1/2006 1:07:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
gwtmp01 at mac.com writes:

Hmm. I'm  not sure I would agree with this statement but I'm only   
speculating--I certainly don't have any 'data' to prove that my   
thoughts are representative of past or future CDT hikers.

If I hike  the CDT next year it will indeed complete my triple-crown  
but that  isn't the reason I'm considering hiking the CDT.  The reason   
I'm considering the CDT is that I haven't hiked it before and I  think  
that I now have the skills for that trail--I didn't even know  about  
the CDT before I set out on my AT thru-hike.  I don't  think that my  
desire to hike a *new* trail is all that  uncommon.  The inevitable  
side-effect of the desire to hike new  long trails is to complete the  
triple-crown.  But I think it is  a side-effect, not the primary  
goal.  At least that is the way  I'm thinking about it.  I don't think  
that my CDT completion  will satiate my appetite for long-distance  
hiking and as such I  don't think of the triple-crown as and endpoint  
but just an  inevitable milestone in this long-distance hiker's  journeys.