[pct-l] Hiking and the real world

[bighummel at aol.com]

Sasha,


Find a passion that pays you to be outside, at least some of the time, and works well with your long distance hiking passion.  Geology has been very, very good to me in these ways! My profession of geologist is also a major passion of mine along with long distance hiking and they both work well together. I get to walk around the hills some days exploring and analyzing the surface geology, and they pay me to do this!  While hiking a get to understand the geology of what I walk through and this makes the experience richer.  


After hiking the PCT I was driven to understand more about what I had just walked through and this led me to a profession.


Greg "Strider" Hummel


From: "Sasha Leidman" <sleidman at gmail.com>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 12:26 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Hiking and the real world


> Hi,
> I'm a college student who, in the past few years, has gotten very 
> interested
> in long distance backpacking. I've been on the list for a while and have
> heard from a lot of very experienced backpackers. Reading their posts, I 
> was
> wondering, how you have implemented the backpacking world into "real 
> life".




Greg Hummel


"Everything in this world goes through change
'cept for love and passion remain the same"