[pct-l] Vagrancy Issues, calve muscles & combat boots

[Reinhold Metzger]

Joan,
You are quite a trail angle....a backpackers dream come true.
I am so glad to hear that you would pick me up if you saw me at a "FT" 
road-crossing.
BTW...I have been a backpacker for about 45 years and developed some 
sizable calve
muscles and if you ever do pick me up at a FT road junction, since you 
are very fond of
calve muscles, I will let you feel them and squeeze them.

You say the hiker that came in 1995 is still there?........Boy, he must 
have really sizable
calve muscles.

Say guys, I guess the lesson to be learned from this is....guys are not 
the only ones that
are fascinated by shapely legs...so are girls,...except the girls like'm 
hairy with big calve
muscles, especially in combat boots.

So,... that is why the hiker babes where giving me all those starry 
looks when I first hiked
Whitney in combat boots back in 1968 or 1969.

JMT Reinhold
Your hairy legged trail companion in combat boots
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On 11/29/2012 12:01 PM, bluetrail at aol.com wrote:
>
> Whoa!  You're implying a whole lot here (but you might be right on 
> some points).  As my house is a little less than a mile off the 
> Florida Trail, over the years I've had probably close to 
> 100 long-distance hikers staying and being fed at my house.  One came 
> in 1995 and is still there.  So maybe there is something to the sex 
> appeal of hiker stink and hairy, muscular calves, those his are more 
> sinewy than big muscled.
> I hike (99.5% day hike) myself, lead activities for the Florida Trail 
> Association, and volunteer for my county natural lands program.  I've 
> been to ALDHA (east) three times, and have presented at ALDHA on the 
> topic of doing trail support for a long-distance hiker.  For the hiker 
> who stayed, I've shipped packages for about 14,000 of his more than 
> 15,000 backpacking miles.   The first time the hiker who stayed 
> thru-hiked the PCT, here are the instructions I got:
> "Here's the book with all the places I'll need a mail drop marked.  
> I'm using the 5-month schedule.  On those highlighted in yellow, I'll 
> need complete food resupply too.  Here are the maps:  you can figure 
> out when I'll need each one.  Tear the appropriate pages out of the 
> guidebook and mail them with the maps.  Here's a bunch of signed, 
> blank checks to pay my bills and buy the food and postage.  You know 
> what I like to eat."
> And he was off to California the next day.
> So, I'm not unacquainted with the genre.  What amused me most at the 
> time I picked up the "heavy trucker," was that Nimblewill Nomad (Eb 
> Eberhard) was already staying at my house that same day.  We took a 
> photo of the two men with their packs--a real study in contrast as Eb 
> was going quite lightweight.   I'm just saying that even then, seeing 
> someone with such a heavy, shabby pack and crummy visible "gear" was 
> outside the thru-hiker norm, and much closer to what I see panhandling 
> at Orlando street corners.  But the muscular calves were the giveaway.
> And yes, if I saw you doing an FT road-crossing, I'd probably pick you 
> up too.
> Telling way too much,
> Joan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net>
>
> [pct-l] Night Hiking in the Mojave / Vagrancy Issues
>
> Joan,
> What you saw was a "HEAVY TRUCKER."
> Heavy Truckers are "Old School" and are known to carry oversize,
> heavy packs to be prepared for anything they may or can reasonable
> expect to encounter on the trail.
> When I hike with my wife or the Scouts, I am a "Heavy Trucker" because
> I want to be prepared for anything I can reasonably expect to encounter
> on the trail...in other words, I don't take any chances when hiking with
> my wife or the Scouts.
> However, on my "solo" JMT "fast-packs" I am willing to take chances and
> go "UL" to the extreme.
>
> And yes, I do look like a filthy, scroungy rat on those fast packs and
> could very easy be mistaken for a "hobo" or "homeless"
>
> Now "SWITCHBACK",...you could never mistake for a "hobo" or "homeless."
> Switchbacks wears the finest and most fashionable garments available.
> I mean Switchback looks like he just stepped out of a fashion clothing
> store, all perfumed up and spick & span clean.
> BTW....Switchback also does not have that malnourished look....he appears
> to be well nourished.
>
> Say Joan,....Would you pick me up if you saw me, all grubby and scuzzy
> looking, but with well developed calve muscles?
>
> Seems like the girls are very fond of calve muscles.
>
> So, if you guys want to increase your chances of getting a ride from a girl
> that fancie calve muscles,...."wear combat boots."
> Nothing turns women on like "hairy legs in combat boots"....especially if
> you have well developed calve muscles.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Your hairy legged trail companion in combat boots
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> Joan wrote:
> I once drove by an FT thru hiker thinking he must be homeless because
> his gear was so oversized and shabby.
> Then I saw the muscles in his
> calves and turned around and picked him up.
> Just one more way to differentiate the homeless from hiker trash.
> (In all fairness, his pack weighed more than 60 lbs.)
>
> Joan
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> Reinhold wrote;
> Yes,
> It is very difficult to tell "hiker-trash" from a "hobo" or "homeless."
> I mean, let's face it, what is the difference between sleeping on the
> trail somewhere for 5-6 month or sleeping in an alley somewhere?
> Not much,.......except you will never see a self respecting "hobo" or
> homeless" wear "Gortex".
> Another way you can tell a "hobo" or "homeless" from "hiker-trash"  is
> cleanliness.
> Homeless seem to be much cleaner.
> Homeless" also seem to look less malnourished and don't have that wild,
> deranged,far away look in their eyes, like "hiker-trash" does.
> So you see, unless you know what to look for,it is very difficult to tell
> a "hobo" or homeless" from hiker trash...they are the same breed of cats.
> One prowls around in alleys,.... the other prowls around on trails.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> Your JMT prowling alley cat
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>    BF wrote:
> ....have any of you PCT thru hikers ever had any //problems with being
> confused being homeless during your travels on and off //the trail? /
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> Radar wrote:
> I was viewed as a 'hobo' by the driver who picked me up outside Mojave
> on that same trip.
> Some people don't seem to even comprehend what backpacking is never
> mind the more esoteric experience of long-distance hiking.
> Radar
>
>