[pct-l] Thru-hikers' 12 step program

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, TrailHacker,

I love it --  it’s a great start, but unfortunately hiking the PCT requires
a seven-million-step program.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:43 PM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:

>
> Give yourself up to the higher power of the trail.
>
>   1. We admitted that we were powerless over the quest of a trek -- that
> our lives had become unmanageable.
>   2. We came to believe that a trail longer than the one we are currently
> hiking could restore us to sanity.
>   3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of
> ibuprofen, trail angels and water cache patrons.
>   4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of backpack contents.
>   5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact
> nature of our excess pack weight.
>   6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all the defects of our hiking
> boots.
>   7. Humbly asked Him to minimize our hiker funk in polite company.
>   8. Made a list of all the trail angels we had stiffed, and became willing
> to make amends to them all.
>   9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do
> so would force us to get off the trail to visit an ATM.
>  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were improperly
> attired/outfitted promptly admitted it.
>  11. Sought through hiking and camping to improve our conscious contact
> with nature, praying only for knowledge of the trail’s plan for us and the
> power  to carry out our trek.
>  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of our treks, we tried
> to carry this message to thru-hikers, and to practice these principles in
> all of our affairs.
>
>
> TrailHacker
>
> "I can't think straight when my feet hurt.'
> Abraham Lincoln
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