[pct-l] 8 cy VS 4 cy and seeing the light

[Tortoise]

Reinhold.

You are soooo right!

I'll never understand why someone wants to set a speed record for hiking 
the PCT, JMT, or any other trail.
I've even stopped trying to understand.
I'll just chuckle to myself as you all go running by, then take a short 
break while I wait for the dust to settle. Maybe, just maybe, one of us 
slow one will show you the pictures of all that you've missed in your haste.

Tortoise, just amblying on thru life. 

<> He who finishes last, wins! <>

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Reinhold Metzger wrote:
> Joe,
> You are so right, speed hikers are a misunderstood breed.....they are known
> as the ''crazy ones'' and forever criticized by ''purists'' for hiking to
> fast and
> and not enjoying their hike.
> Many folks just don't understand us......but we crazy ones, we understand
> each other.
>
> I LOOK AT IT LIKE THIS:
> There are rabbits and there are turtles, they each enjoy their journey in
> their
> own way.
> Turtles will forever criticize rabbits for going to fast and not enjoying
> their hike.
> Who is to say how to hike or how to enjoy a hike?
> Who is to say if turtles enjoy their journey more than rabbits?
>
> In nature not all things are created equal.
>
> I like the way Lance Armstrong puts it......''Some of us are born with 4
> cylinders
> some of us are born with 8 cylinders''.
> The 4 cylinders will forever complain that the 8 cylinders are going to
> fast.
>
> I say ....HYOH....and who cares what everybody else thinks.
>
> By the way Joe, the first time I hiked the JMT in 1996 with the Boy Scouts
> we also
> did in 21 days and I hauled a 75 - 85 lb pack........NEVER  AGAIN!!!
>
> As I got older and wiser  ''I SAW THE LIGHT''  now I go ultra-light.
> But you know Joe, some folks don't get wiser as they get older, they just
> get older
> and they never see the light.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> The old wise one
>
>