[pct-l] music while hiking

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JJ, I know what you mean.

I don't carry any music device, but I do find myself singing the same song on the way out of each town stop:  Back on the Road Again, by Willie Nelson.  I change some words; e.g. road becomes trail.  It's been the same song now for 7 years.

Steady, Sr.


----- Reply message -----
From: "Jim Keener ( J J )" <pct2010 at ridgetrailhiker.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 24, 2011 7:46 pm
Subject: [pct-l] music while hiking
To: "Jackie McDonnell" <yogihikes at gmail.com>
Cc: "pct-l at backcountry.net" <pct-l at backcountry.net>, "Ann Marie" <dbanmrkr at yahoo.com>


Greetings,

HYOM-ON

Hear Your Own Music-or Not

Some listen to music almost every day. Some think nothing could enhance the trail experience. I like to listen to music in just a few places while hiking, and the choices I make are very place specific. With some exceptions. 

At Point Reyes National Seashore on Sky Trail, I like to listen to - and sing - "You Are My Sunshine" and "Amazing Grace". On the PCT, I want to spend a day on the Big Horn Plateau watching the sun come up listening to Hovhanes' "Prayer of Saint Gregory" and some time later in the day, Beethoven's Fifth and Ninth Symphonies, Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion", Mozart's requiems in C- and D- . And for Forester Pass, music from LOTR. 

When I'm dayhiking on trails I know well, I'll listen to one of my regular lists. 

Jim Keener ( J J )

On Jul 24, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Jackie McDonnell <yogihikes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Ann Marie -
> 
> While hiking sections, I prefer to not carry a radio or other music player
> with me.  However, for me, thru-hiking is a different situation.  I enjoy
> having music in my life both off-season and during a thru-hike.  While
> thru-hiking, I don't listen to music 24/7, but for several hours each day I
> do listen to the radio.
> 
> Most hikers I've seen in recent years have IPods or similar devices.  I
> prefer a radio over an IPod for a couple reasons:
> 
> (1)  Batter life.  My radio takes one AAA battery and never needs to be
> recharged.  I use lithium batteries which are very lightweight and last a
> long time.
> 
> (2)  Music memories.  Let's say you load an IPod with all your favorite
> songs and take that on your thru-hike.  Although you'll certainly enjoy the
> songs, you're listening to songs from your past which already have memories
> associated with them - songs from high school, from a summer at camp, from
> your college days, etc.  However, when you use a radio while hiking, you'll
> create new memories associated with whatever songs are new the year you
> hike.  As I type this right now, there is a song on the radio here in my
> home office with trail memories for me.  It came out during the summer of
> 2007 while I was thru-hiking the PCT.  Here I am in my home office in July
> of 2011, yet I'm instantly transported back to Oregon in 2007, and it's all
> due to a song playing on the radio right now.
> 
> yogi
> www.pcthandbook.com
> 
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Ann Marie <dbanmrkr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> My birthday is coming up....and long distance hiking continues to be in my
>> future.  I love music but hate putting playlists together (on my laptop) and
>> I don't currently own a music player.  Is it worth the investment for the
>> trail?  Just as another tidbit...I love silence while hiking short sections
>> and usually just shake my head when encountering hikers with earbuds. But
>> longer than 3 weeks might change my mind.  Did it change yours?:
>> 
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