[pct-l] Adjusting after the hike, missing trail life

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

I didn't do a thru hike, either. I did two section hikes. One 1200  
miles and the other 1800 miles. I've never been a thru-hiker. I have  
no idea if I could even do such a thing! Still, the two 3-month  
experiences I had left a big mark on me. I always wanted to do it  
ever since I was 10. I was 43 when I left Campo.

I am going to try to look at my boring concrete-and-asphalt life like  
the opposite of a long distance hike. When I was hiking the PCT I  
would hike 4-5 days and then take a couple days off in town. I'll  
just reverse that. I'll spend 4-5 days in town and then take a couple  
days off on a trail somewhere.

I've been having fun shopping for my resupplies and running my  
dehydrator again and fixing my gear and buying new gear.

On Mar 7, 2011, at 7:31 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
>>>>  Wildflower:  Firstly - I have not done the PCT as a thru (I'm  
>>>> still
>>>> nibbling away section by section), but I have done multi-month
>>>> committing endeavors. When I read Diane's posting I felt like I  
>>>> could
>>>> sympathize with the feeling, but not really connect with it. But  
>>>> when I
>>>> read your posting there was one sentence that hit home...   
>>>> "longing for
>>>> a thru hike"...  longing for the full experience again, not some
>>>> shrunken subset.