[pct-l] The Trail Calls

[g l]

Jeff-

I'm sure you're right about the Klondike, but the first time I read the poem it grabbed me, and I knew it fit many "hiker spirits" too.  Robert Service did a lot of world roaming as you know.  I have become so smitten by Mr. Service's works that I'm entertaining memorizing one of his poems a week while on trail.  Don't know if I can do it........old brain and all.  Still, if I dare to carry any book at all on trail, it will be a book of his poetry.  I think he "gets" us!

Wheeew

Home <jeffreyn at sonic.net> wrote: I think he was writing about the Klondike.  Jack London stuff, and then  
later he wrote of the sadness and glories of WWI.  I want to climb one  
trail, the Chilkoot, he described with particular beauty.  Called the  
lines of load bearers something like a "groaning mass of humanity" as the  
final pitch was ascended.

Good quote to share.


On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:33:04 -0800, g l  wrote:

> ...
>
> As far as the trail calling, I think it is best said by my favorite  
> "hiker" poem by Robert Service.  It's called "The Men That Don't Fit  
> In".  I won't write the whole thing, but the first verse goes something  
> like this:
>
> "There's a race of men that don't fit in,
>     A race that can't stay still;
> So they break the hearts of kith and kin
>     and they roam the world at will.
> They range the field and they rove the flood,
>     and they climb the mountain's crest;
> Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
>     And they don't know how to rest."



-- 
Jeffrey "57" Zimmerman
Sonoma County
The Left Coast
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