[pct-l] I failed my thru hike this year!!!!!!

[Jeffrey Olson]

You make my point well.  Lack of experience with trips of a month or 
longer are often driven by anxiety and other emotions rather than calm 
understanding and appraisal of the "current condition of the body."  I 
think a 22 year old can agonize through beginning with 20 mile days if 
they're not obese, but a 50 year old will just crash when a body part 
strains and or breaks.

I always try and spend a day driving to points near or on the trail 
where I can hang food so that my first week or two doesn't involve more 
than three or four days worth.  Again, I do section hikes, not 
thru-hikes, and this strategy applies only in the first couple three or 
four weeks...

Jeff...

On 10/18/2011 7:55 PM, Eric Lee wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> It is NOT necessary to condition properly before a trip.  I know I'm going
> to get yelled at for asserting this.  Remember, HYOH, and everything lies on
> a continuum.  If you aren't in condition, six miles a day for a week is a
> good start...
> Well, yeah, you can certainly do a conditioning regime on the trail by
> starting out very slowly.  No problem with that.  The problem comes when
> people try to skip conditioning before the trip and then jump straight into
> cranking 20 mile days.  That's . . . painful.  Some people survive it but
> many don't.
>
> Eric
>
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