[pct-l] Solo Female - Leaving Boyfriend At Home

[Bob Bankhead]

Ah, young love. That means he's convincible (aka trainable).

Ask him to join you on one of your early overnight training hikes - just so
he can see what you'll be doing. 
Pick a relatively easy hike with a nice destination where you know you'll be
mostly free of other campers.
Extra points if there's a lake or stream at camp where the two of you can
skinny dip or at least wash each other's back after the hike in.
Slip a small bottle of wine into your pack to go with dinner. Add a can of
V8 to go with breakfast.
Make it a trip he won't soon forget.

When you get ready for the next overnight training hike, ask him if he'd
like to join you.

With luck, he'll decide it's fun and want to go on longer training hikes;
maybe even part of the PCT; maybe even all of it. Alternatively, he could do
a running resupply for you through southern CA, meeting you at spots where
it's a goodly off-trail hike to your supplies (like Mojave and Walker Pass).
As a reward, he gets to join you for your layover days. By then, more than
just your back will definitely need washing. Variations are endless.

You're a woman; use your inbred sneakiness.



-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Abilene B.
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 7:13 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Solo Female - Leaving Boyfriend At Home


Has anyone had experience with this? My boyfriend and I have been together
about 2.5 years and we love each other very much. I have invited him to come
along with me on a thru-hike but he just isn't as interested in it as I am.
I completely understand and don't want to push him into something he doesn't
want to do. However, I am going to do this with or without him but being
away from him for 5-6 months is kind of scary. How do we stay connected?
What have some of you done to make this easier?